I have been looking at girl’s magazines a lot recently. Florence is really rather keen in general and we often have to spend a good deal of time browsing them in the supermarket – whether we’re buying or not! The people at ‘Love From…’, the LaLaLoopsy Magazine, sent us this month’s copy to review and Florence was thrilled to bits when she saw it. Florence couldn’t wait to get stuck in to ‘Love From…’, the Lalaloopsy magazine! This issue is […]

We last went to BeWILDerwood during Halloween half term and we loved it. It wasn’t our first visit of course, we’ve been lucky enough to have a number of fab days out in the outdoor adventure park which sees children swing through trees on zip-wires, embrace the magical world of Twiggles and Boggles and whoosh down amazing slides but the thing we always say on the way home is ‘When shall we go again?’ Some highlights from our last visit! […]

I don’t see the point to car alarms?! Nobody pays any attention to them, they go off if the slightest gust of wind throws a leaf on the windscreen and they are thoroughly annoying! Take last Saturday night for example. I was out the front of my house and just down the road there was a damned car alarm going off. I tutted and thought to myself ‘is anyone going to actually turn that thing off?’ It simply didn’t occur […]

It’s all hearts and flowers in the shops at the moment and while the cynic in me says Valentines Day is all a retailer’s gimmick, the softy in me adores celebrating this day! One year I made Jonny a Valentines treasure hunt all around the gated flat we were living in and had him running round outside in front of our neighbours to find the next clue! I do love to turn his cheeks red! But it can all get […]

Blossom, the magazine just for little girls, has launched an exciting new competition for all budding young authors! In association with World Book Day the competition is to inspire all little writers to put pen to paper and create their very own story! The winner will have their work published in the magazine having been illustrated by the Blossom artist. On top of this the prize will include a visit to their school or nursery by the hugely successful Princess […]

I think it’s always exciting when you get a station in a game of Monopoly and I was trilled to take my life sized game to Fenchurch Street station this week! Jimmy and I went on a little day trip just us while Florence was at nursery and we took our Bugaboo Bee up into the heart of the City! My boy is a real BOY and loves nothing more than being on the tube and trains. He choo choooooos […]

My children have both always been pretty bad sleepers. Florence never slept for more than a couple of hours when she was a baby and she only started to really go through the night when she turned around two. She still very often ends up in our bed by morning and her brother is pretty similar. He still co sleeps with us and I don’t expect him to go through the night but it would be nice if he could […]

Dear Members of Twitter everywhere, You are craftily invited to join us for a wonderfully fun and crafty Twitter party to celebrate the UK premiere of brand new Nick Jr television series Zack & Quack! Friday 7th February 2014! 3.45-5.45 Nick Junior in your living room! We will making like characters from Zack & Quack and getting all our favourite crafs out for an afternoon of fun while getting to watch the new show in the middle of the party […]

Sport Relief is back on Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd March 2014 encouraging people to get involved in something sporty to raise money for a very good cause indeed! Run, swim or cycle in the brand new Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Games and help make this year the best yet! So, what are us bloggers doing to show our support? Well we have #TeamHonk! Annie from Mammasaurus, Tanya from Mummy Barrow and Penny from The Alexander Residence raised almost £10,000 for Comic Relief last year with #TeamHonk and now […]

I don’t bake. I mean I do, but it very rarely comes out of the oven resembling something you would want to eat. Still, yesterday we decided we’d have a lazy day at home and for some entertainment we would make some brownies! I’ve made brownies before but they weren’t very nice and I didn’t have high hopes for these but… As it happens and in some kind of fluke, they came out of the oven just as they should […]