Bbright When It Comes To Your Boiler! I remember feeling a great sense of achievement when we bought our first home. After renting for years, with high London rents being paid directly into a land lord’s pocket, it felt like we’d almost won the lottery because mortgages, though not cheap, are often far lower than monthly rentals. Finally we’d saved enough to get on that ladder and start paying monthly payments which would be only benefitting to us (of course, […]
Celebrating 50 Years Of Learning Made Fun With Orchard Toys! Orchard Toys are celebrating 50 years of learning made fun and is it any wonder they have had SUCH longevity when they make games that children remember even when they’re much older and don’t really play them anymore. Having had two older ones and then a gap before two little ones, my big kids get to relive their favourite programmes (who doesn’t love playing the game of what you used […]
Vegetarian Chilli Pepper Pasta With Waveney Mill Spatziola! We love a pasta dish in this house, every single member (which is quite something with 6 of us) and though the boys and Posie will have it served simply with butter and cheese, the rest of us love a spicy or creamy dish. This one, which is vegetarian and delicious, hits the mark for us and it’s so easy to make we find ourselves turning to it over and over again […]
Shnuggle Air Bedside Crib – Review! A true convert to the Shnuggle bath (we have the baby bath AND the toddler bath) , I hadn’t realised with my others what a game changer it is but with Posie and Raffie it’s made bath time super easy, fun and poses great longevity for the product as well as versatility (camping was a breeze). I wrote about it a while back but today I want to tell you all about another of […]
Halloween Half Term 2021! It’s felt like a bit of a slog getting through the first half term of school. We started well and towards the end everyone got bugs, was under the weather and with the worry of COVID I’ve been counting down the days to the holidays. It couldn’t have come sooner with the preceeding week seeing us off school for a few days but not able to go anywhere while we awaited PCR results. I had wondered […]
Dearest Posie – You Are Nine Months Old! Dearest Posie, Nine months inside and nine months out! Seems incredible as the 9 months in went SO slowly but the first 9 months out have whizzed by in a nano. You are the most happy baby, even when poorly and you have been poorly this month at times. A hospital over night when we were worried as couldn’t get a temp down from 39.9 showed thankfully not a bacterial infection but […]
Cafe Royal Norwich At The Theatre Royal! This morning the girls and I tripped into the city for a catch up with our friends at The Theatre Royal Norwich who have, over the past couple of months, been soft launching their newer, shinier and more friendly cafe. The Royal, where all day long, with or without theatre tickets, you can enjoy their delights, has officially opened today and we were treated to some of what’s on offer! Pastries and cakes […]
Fairground Frights At Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach For Halloween Half Term! Last week I wrote about how much we were looking forward to Fairground Frights at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, our second visit after we had an absolutely fantastic time last year being scare witless by both the rides AND the actors! This year we had another great evening with the big kids and went on ALL the rides while dodging the ghosts, scary clowns, ghouls, mummies and the rest! […]
5 Ways Your Used Car Can Feel Like New Again When you’ve had your car for some time, it can start to feel a bit boring and a bit worn. It doesn’t quite drive as it used to and you aren’t sure whether or not you should buy a new car instead of holding onto this one. Well, just because it’s getting old doesn’t mean it needs replacing! There’s plenty you can do to have your old car feeling like […]
5 Things You Should Never Say To A Pregnant Woman Do you happen to have friends who are expecting a baby? You may be well versed in what not to say to them. On the other hand, you may have never experienced being around a pregnant woman so haven’t come up close and personal with their hormones. These hormones are totally unpredictable and something you say could be taken the wrong way and upset the lady. Think twice before you […]
