We’re big fans of the company Worlds Apart. They make gorgeous things for children’s bedrooms and to play in and we especially love their lighting range as well as their day beds which are ace for going away, having friends over or even for just a ‘camp in’ at home. Just before Christmas we were sent a couple of their Play Tents to review and the children have been going wild for them! They love a tent (who doesn’t) but […]

I heard about something really cool and just wanted to quickly share it with you because it’s for such a good cause and it’s completely FREE as well as being lovely. A wonderful e-book app for children with a great message and cause behind it definitely needs to be given a moment! When Sara Jackson’s eldest was entering his terrible 2’s, his baby brother had just been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. Desperate for stories to help the family […]

When we first lived together Jonny and I rented a furnished apartment in Old Ford Lock. It was directly opposite the Olympic Stadium although back then they had only just started to build it and sitting on the balcony probably wasn’t as restful as I assume it is these days. The wow factor came more from the fact we had celebrities in the building than what you could see on the other side of the river; diggers and cranes were not […]

This week has seen me display some absolutely monumental parenting – If only that was true and I wasn’t being in the slightest bit sarcastic… So I have managed to trap Jimmy’s fingers in the door resulting in an A&E dash when we were supposed to be on our way to a screening of a new film and on top of that have screamed at both of them in the street like the woman from Shameless… Terrible but then I […]

We were sent some rather lovely training chopticks by CleverstiX from the Science Museum shop and in order to try them out to their best possible advantage I decided I was going to cook some Chinese food. With Chinese New Year coming up on February 19th there seemed like no better time to get the Wok out and make an oriental feast. I have made this recipe before and I have adapted it from a 1980’s Marks and Spencer cook book from pork […]

I’m a big fan of Weebles and have been since I was a child when they were considerably smaller than they are these days! The fact they’ve doubled in size doesn’t take away from any of the fun of the Weebles that wobble but don’t fall down and my children enjoy playing with them just as much as I did when I was little. A while back Peppa Pig and friends were even turned into their own Weeble characters and we […]

I read E. Nesbit’s The Railway Children when I was about ten years old and I remember the story being totally gripping. It must have stayed with me all these years too because when Florence and I were invited to the Kings Cross Theatre to see the new stage adaptation I managed to go over most of the story with her prior to attending the theatre. At having only just turned 5 the play might have been a touch too old […]

You know when children can’t say a word properly and then because their way of saying it is so sweet the whole family end up pronouncing it the way they do forever more? Well Weetabix is one of those words for us! We no longer call them Weetabix and instead we all refer to the healthy, yummy and filling breakfast as ‘waferbiscs’ because that is how Florence pronounced it when she was teeny tiny! We also eat a lot of […]

The first time Florence had a ‘Subway’ we were on our way to a birthday party, late, hungry, waiting for a bus and there was nothing else in the vicinity of where we were. Subway just wasn’t really on my radar and if it hadn’t been for a lack of anywhere else I probably wouldn’t have gone in but since that first visit we have been many times. It very quickly became a favourite with Florence’s and she loves it […]

Technically Florence is well past the In The Night Garden stage. I say technically because really and truly at five years old she is too old for it now but… She loved it from very early on, got loads out of it at the time and the programme became part of our daily routine with her. It still is part of our daily routine because of course Jimmy is still very much in the thick of his time with enjoying […]