We do have a pet but he doesn’t live with us. Bollo the cat became rather unreasonable after we had children and decided he didn’t much like me. Never the friendliest of cats to begin with he became positively feral in nature if we tried to do such things to him like, oh I don’t know, walk past him while he was sleeping so we renamed him Bollo The Beast! We used to send him off on sabbatical to my […]

On Sunday Florence and I were invited to the premiere of Nativity 3 – Dude Where’s My Donkey. We were going to take Jimmy with us but at the last minute I decided an afternoon of fun just us girls would be a real treat for the last day of half term and so off we went to Leicester Square wearing our Christmas jumpers as per the dress code. We were asked to wear Christmas jumpers in support of the […]

Next week on 12th November 2014, at 4-6pm, we are helping to host a massive Twitter Party and you are, of course, invited! The party is all about the DesignaFriend range and together with UKMums.TV we will be finding out about these cute dolls while we play, eat and have fun. Oh! And there will online spot prizes too so if you can join us on Twitter then don’t forget to look our for and use the hashtag #DesignaFriend! See you there!

Time really does fly when you’re having fun doesn’t it. I can’t quite believe that today is the last day of the holidays and tomorrow we will be back in the school swing. I feel just as I did as a child, a bit miffed and a bit blue… We’ve had such a gorgeous week, getting up when we want, wearing what we like and just pootling about not doing much on some days while we filled others with fun! We’ve […]

I’m rather keen on a noddle stir fry because they are so quick to cook and yet the vegetables and fresh ingredients make them feel so clean and healthy.   This week I cooked a surf and turf version using Udon noodles which are my favourite, here it is. Ingredients: 400g of rump steak cut into 5mm width strips 200g raw tiger prawns 300g cooked and drained Udon noodles 2 tbsp of toasted seasame oil 2 tbsp of toasted seasame […]

We’ve been to Pensthorpe Natural Park in Norfolk before but the last time was over 18 months ago and much has changed since then. A big injection of fun has been created and added into what was already a pleasant day out. Pensthorpe was the sort of place we would go for a quiet day, we wouldn’t spend hours and hours but we really enjoyed the natural habitat that can be see, feeding the ducks and seeing the flamingos. There were fun […]

With my new thing of a Friday Night Treat Tea I am getting very happy when it comes to novelty food! Every week on a Friday we do our special themed tea to celebrate the beginning of the weekend and the children love it. They think choosing a theme each week is brilliant fun and even when my creations are a little less than perfect they are still pleased! It’s the holidays right now and we only do the treat […]

We were sent the Plum Interactive Cookie Kitchen for review and chose to have it at my Mum’s house until our loft is converted and we have a proper playroom for it to go in. It’s not massively big because it’s slim and stands against a wall but I’m afraid until we can have the work done to make our pad bigger we are too much up against it with space for anything like it at home just yet… It […]

So if you’re like me then you will be an appreciator of ‘easy cooking’. I’m not talking Pop Tarts or Supa Noodles (although I have been known to indulge – shhh, don’t tell my husband who thinks they’re the devil), I just mean a bit of microwave action… Not everything you cook in the quick friend is awful for you; it can steam vegetables with the bad boys of bamboo and my husband swears blind it does a mean bacon […]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how excited we were for half term at my Mum’s. We were excited for lots of reasons, the holidays, fun times as a family, Halloween and also, one very big reason… My Mum has just bought the Premium Wooden Playhouse by Plum Products! When she had it delivered there was a problem with the roof but they quickly sent her a new one and with her friend Danny they put it up in the […]