It’s summer holidays time and that only means one thing! Bring on the fun! With six whole weeks at home, it is up to us as parents to build entertainment for our little ones! Days out and entertaining children can be super expensive though so as well as the odd trip out to a theme park for a treat we need to do some brilliant things at home too! We’re taking part in the Asda #SaveSummer challenge! This means that every week […]

Florence looked at this toy when I told her it was for her age and said she thought it was a baby toy. It does look a lot like one of the baby toys she had when she was tiny, the one that Jimmy plays with now, so I could understand her reluctance to think that this one might be more exciting but I managed to persuade her that this Plan Toys Fun Sorting Toy was definitely for her and […]

This is a Mummy blog but occasionally I get invited along to some adult only events too. It doesn’t make them not about me of course, a Mummy is still a Mummy if she is having an evening off and I got invited to a pretty fab event of this nature just last week so I had to tell you all about it! Did I fancy an evening of art and wine in my old stomping ground Shoreditch? Well of […]

Ever been on a car journey with a child? Yep! Well then you’ll know! You need to pack many, many things to stave off the ‘Are we nearly there yets’! Food, games, magazines and colouring things are usually my staples but we also play lots and lots of games too. One of which, of course, is ‘I spy’. Just as with the children’s CD, which my husband eventually pretends won’t work as we have run out of signal – wonder […]

When Florence turned three she suddenly became very interested in playing board games. We were given one for her birthday and it really gave her a taste for the concept and now we have lots of games that we play as a family. She doesn’t even mind not winning, she just absolutely loves to play and would happily have a game every evening which I think can’t really be a bad thing! Lots of the board games we have encourage […]

If you haven’t already been convinced to go to the Lollibop Festival, despite my constant blog posts, Tweets and Facebook status updates giving you all the reasons why you will love it, then I have a little gem for you! It might just tip you over that last step of deciding to go to the children’s event of the year and making your little ones very happy indeed! And guess what? This is fun for the children too! And guess […]

As a blogger I am often invited to functions and events which is wonderful. We get to see theatre productions, films, try out theme parks and all manner of exciting things. We love it and have lots of fun but of course I have an important job to do as well because I’ve been invited to these things so that I can report on them. I am there to have fun with my family of course but we have to […]

I thought perhaps Florence might be a little too young for Where’s Wally? The books with tiny little characters and one little famous Wally hidden amongst them for you to find! I remember looking through the books with my friend Angela when we were considerably older than her so I assumed it probably wouldn’t be of much interest and perhaps out of her capabilities but I assumed wrong! Where’s Wally? Is famous all round the world and celebrating his 25th […]

It’s a new found favourite I’ll give it that but favourite it is. Florence was introduced to DocMcStuffins I don’t know where? One day she just seemed to appear in our lives with a constant ‘Please can I have Doc McStuffins on the on demand’. We only have 4 episodes but round and round they go as if on a constant loop! I actually find myself singing along with the many songs so catchy are they; no wonder my little […]

We were sent a Lullaby Iggle Piggle, one of the new toys from the In The Night Garden collection by Golden Bear Toys and also a Talking Upsy Daisy – aren’t we lucky! It couldn’t have come at a better time actually because Jimmy is totally into the show right now. I’m not sure if it was taking him to see the live version or if he’s just reached that age but he is a PROPER In The Night Garden fan now! […]