I remember my Mum being 34. She was 30 when she had me, the same age that I was when I had Florence and this week, I have just turned 34 too. It really doesn’t seem that long ago since I was Florence’s age and my Mum was mine; I’m not sure how time has managed to go that quickly? When you’re a child things take forever, I felt like I was always waiting for my birthday to arrive and […]

Florence is and always has been a bit of a telly addict. I don’t mind her watching it because we always go out and do something every day as well so I figure when we’re at home its ok to have the box on. We’re all big TV fans in this house so it’d be pretty mean if I denied her the same! She has favourite programmes which change every so often but there are always two programmes that remain […]

Florence has been taken to the theatre from a very young age and Jimmy of course too. It’s something I love to do with the children and maybe it’s because I trained in musical theatre myself but I love a musical more than most stage offerings. Until now, when we have been invited to come and review big West End shows Florence has been too little as mostly the age limit is 3. She’s not then had the experience of […]

Ok, so you might be working out that I’ve recently become a little bit of an Aldi fan! My Mum’s loved it for years and is in there practically every day. I have, if I hold my hands up honestly, turned my nose up on occasions. This year however and I have had the opportunity to meet with the brand’s top people and discuss their ranges. I see now that the perception I had, which might have been correct when […]

I’ve written before about Aldi and how much I am beginning to love this brand. The more I see of it the more there is to love and what started out in my mind as a little supermarket which only sold continental meats and biscuits has grown into a real contender for the bigger supermarket. They do actually sell continental meats and unusual biscuits with a German style to them but they also sell pretty much everything else as it […]

While I was gate crashing an event yesterday (not really, I was at one and another was going on so they asked me in to see them too) I tried the most delicious cocktail ever! I’d literally just been eating salted caramel nuts trying out Christmas party nibbles at the event I WAS invited to when down stairs I was handed a salted caramel long drink! Oh yum and who cared that it was before mid day! Using Stoli Salted Karamel […]

Yesterday I was at an event where there was also another event going on in the same building and after I’d been around the one I’d actually been invited to I kind of gate crashed the other one too! Well, I didn’t really as the guy on the door DID ask me but I suspect he initially thought I was there for them and then didn’t want to seem rude. Hey ho, it was really interesting and a couple of […]

I am such a techy novice. I try and try to be good at computers but I fail miserably most of the time and have to ask my husband or my brother (who sorts out everything on this blog by the way) to do it for me. My children on the other hand, even Jimmy, are completely confident with things like phones and tablets. It’s their era, it’s what they’ve grown up with and Florence knows her way round our […]

We’ve been reviewing some more bath toys from Sassy. The latest ones we’ve been enjoying playing with are the Tiny Tub Time Turtles which the children had as a little present on my birthday. I like to give Florence a little something on my birthday to make up for the fact that hers comes in the same week as Christmas meaning all the presents come at once and I obviously can’t leave Jimmy out! They were thrilled with their little turtle […]

Yesterday was my birthday and I decided that as I had been asked to review an Italian restaurant and I would have chosen an Italian restaurant for my birthday lunch anyway, we would use the opportunity and combine the two. I’d not heard of Vapiano before, a worldwide chain with just two restaurants in Great Britain, both of which being in London. They sounded like they had an unusual concept where you go up to the counter to order your food from […]