We were very kindly invited to a summer celebration by Sainsbury’s yesterday and trotted off into town for an afternoon garden party of fun activities! The afternoon was hosted by Nickelodeon presenters Anna Williamson and Jamie Rickers – exciting! The purpose of the afternoon and all the fun was to highlight that Sainsbury’s have a new book out called the Sainsbury’s Bumper Book Of Summer! Filled with ideas and jam packed with budget busters for entertaining the little ones over […]

It’s summer holidays time and that only means one thing! Bring on the fun! With six whole weeks at home, it is up to us as parents to build entertainment for our little ones! Days out and entertaining children can be super expensive though so as well as the odd trip out to a theme park for a treat we need to do some brilliant things at home too! We’re taking part in the Asda #SaveSummer challenge! This means that every week […]

I used to visit Pleasurewood Hills as a child. It was the only theme park that was near enough for me to feasibly go to as a youngster and for me, back then, it was wonderful! People my age who grew up in Norfolk and Suffolk (where the park is) would almost certainly have also been as a child and have similar memories to my own; flying down the death slide and probably skimming some skin off on the way, […]

A long time ago Jonny and I visited a Frankie and Benny’s restaurant when at an airport. It was not a pleasant experience and we vowed never to go back. Years later and having read some great blogger’s reviews I thought perhaps it was time we gave it another whirl. So, when I was asked if I would like £30 towards a meal from the new specials menu I said yes please and we’ve looked forward to giving it a […]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a lovely Christmas Toy bash we were invited to where we got to check out what’s hot for 2013! There was one toy that Florence couldn’t leave alone and she just kept having to go back to see again! The toy was Dress-Up Tatty Teddy and Florence pushed her round in a buggy and cuddled her for pretty much the whole party! She even had to make a special trip back upstairs […]

Last week I wrote about our fabulous trip to the Imperial War Museum, London and how we’d had such fun checking out their new ‘Horrible Histories: Spies’ exhibition exclusively before anyone else! We had a great day and were very excited to be invited along to HMS Belfast, which is part of the Imperial War Museum, the next day! Now I wasn’t sure about taking two small children aboard a large ship and I wondered if they might find it […]

With less than three weeks until the Lollibop Festival the excitment is really starting to build! I just can’t wait to take both the children again this summer to what I know will be the highlight of all our days out. It’s a full and fun packed day which when you look at the cost of everything you will get to do there individually, is an absolute snip for the price! If you go you will have children that smile […]

I love being on a long car journey. Call me mad but as a non driver and always passenger, I find it very relaxing to be chauffered around from place place while I sit back and listen to music. I’ve had friendships form on car journeys and fallen a little bit more in love even, while tracks from times gone past have blasted our ear drums and we’ve sung out as loudly as we can, mixing singing and conversation. Memories with music have been […]

I remember long summers of playing out doors with only the instruction to come home for tea. My friends and I didn’t get up to much, we lived in Norfolk so there wasn’t MUCH we could have got up to if I’m honest, but we had fun outside all day long. We would ride our bikes down to the the weir (sounds pretty dangerous now I think about it, what if one of us had fallen in) or up to […]