How do you budget during the school holidays? Can be tricky huh! Lots and lots of empty days to fill but still the same old purse strings… You might be interested to know then that Voucher Codes are putting together a Summer Survival Guide to compliment their popular Kids and Family Finances paper which they wrote for New Year. The guide will include tips from other parents and experts on how you can spend your time having fun while saving […]
We love to get in the garden and after growing our own tomatoes last year the children were very keen to grow more this year. We don’t have a garden though, so when QVC asked if we would like to take part in their ‘Watch Them Grow’ campaign we knew we wanted to join in but thought it might be a problem unless we did it at my Mum’s just like last year. We ordered a Little Growers Vegetable Kit […]
This week I was accused by some low life on Twitter of running a ‘dime a dozen review blog’. It’s true I do do reviews on the blog of course but I also write about a whole lot more besides – if he’d ACTUALLY read my blog then he’d have known that, just as he’d have known that when I do review things I review them honestly and fairly. Seeing as this post is actually going to be a review […]
Every year when we’ve been to the Lollibop Festival it has mainly been for Florence’s benefit. The first year it was just her and I and the next year Jimmy had only just been born. The year after that, at just over one and again he just tagged along with Florence, enjoying it but without having too many ideas of what HE wanted to do. I did take him to some of the lovely things they lay on for babies with […]
We’ve been hearing more and more about the world’s first ‘living doll’ Cayla and on Saturday we got to go see her at her official launch! I have to be honest and say that on first hearing about a doll that would interact with your child via an app which runs from Google, I had my reservations. I envisaged a rather sinister dolly from a film that scared me back in my youth called ‘Dolly Dearest’ and I can admit […]
For the most part Florence is a very well behaved little girl. We get complimented on her impeccable politeness all the time and it makes me feel even more incredibly proud of her. She is however only four years old and with that does come a certain degree of monkeyitis! If she’s tired or I don’t know, just having a rare grump then she CAN test her boundaries a little too far and I am not going to allow her […]
I remember my parents turning 35 so it seems pretty old to me yet I don’t really feel as old as I remember thinking 35 is… Yet this week I turned just that and with my birthday I have hit mid thirties! I can’t believe it. People have said I don’t look it. Thanks very much if you are one of them… But it doesn’t stop the fact it is both true and while just sleeping in my bed doing […]
Florence is very much into puzzle mode at the moment! Puzzles and games and she absolutely loves to do a jigsaw puzzle. She has even come up with her own little game using jigsaws where we all have to take a turn to lay a piece and the winner is the one who manages to lay all their pieces first. She’s a clever little thing that’s for sure! Recently we reviewed a Frozen jigsaw by Jumbo which of course went […]
We have become quite the fans of Clarks shoes since not so long ago I discovered that despite my preconceptions based on my own childhood shoe shopping experiences, Clarks are both fashionable AND functional these days! What’s even better is that the styles appeal to not just me as a parent but also to Florence. I even let her choose her own shoes because at Clarks I know I can. I say to her ‘ok, today we need to get […]
I’ve often written about my love of the shop Aldi! We now try to do most of our shopping there which although isn’t easy due to one not being terribly close, we do because we save so much money. On average around £35 in a weekly shop! The thing is, it’s not just saving money and making a compromise on quality. The food, drinks and other goods (there are loads) are with very few exceptions very good, as good as […]
