While we were on holiday Jimmy Buster Bumblebee turned one year old! We woke up and had a few presents (Florence had a couple too of course) and then we spent the day at Drusilla’s Zoo which was fab! After that we went to Pizza Express in Eastbourne as it was on the way back to our holiday camp and we had yummy pizza, pasta and of course some chocolate cake! Jimmy had his first candle to blow out and […]

The Little Bird collection by Jools Oliver for Mothercare has got to be my all time favourite collection for children at the moment. I could bang on for ages about what good quality it is but I think we all know Mothercare is one of our most trusted brands so I think we can safely say the quality as a given… I could bang on about what a good price everything is, there is nothing I wouldn’t be able to afford […]

A while ago and with some shame I started to buy The Sun newspaper in order to save up tokens for one of their £9.50 holidays! They came with so many recommendations that I couldn’t resist giving one a go – EVEN if it meant buying The Sun!. We chose our dates, wrote down our five choices for parks and sent of the £9.50 per person. Then we waited to see… While we waited I mentioned on social media what […]

Almost a decade ago Jonny and I had the pleasure of dining in one of Norfolk’s most well thought of restaurants, Morston Hall. Chef Galton Blackiston who runs the business which is also a hotel, had at the time just appeared on the very first series of ‘The Great British Menu’ and we were very excited to try out the celebrity chef’s menu. The prices far exceeded the ability of our purse at the time but we had rather generously […]

People often ask me why my blog is called ‘Rock ‘n’ Roller Baby’ and I always say it’s because of Jonny. My husband is a massively talented musician, singer and song writer and it was always my intention to include Daddy’s songs on the blog. Somehow I never got round to it but we’re going to change all that today and start living up to our name! Back in the day I used to follow my Jonny around London as […]

This week I decided that on balance, with the outbreak of measles in Wales and the very real possibility of it travelling further in the UK, that I would take the children a week early to have their MMR injections. Florence’s booster is due when she turns 3 and 4 months and Jimmy was to have his first lot when he turned one. Both of those dates fall next week when we are away and I really didn’t want to […]

I think I can win the prize for the longest anyone has ever used a baby bath! In fact, I might go as far as to say that it was our absolute best buy of all time ever because we used it from when Florence was a couple of weeks old and Jonny has only just, in the past couple of weeks, put it away in the loft. We could of course keep using it with Jimmy, we could keep […]

Smoo the Cow, Comedy the Hyena, Spirit the Lemur and Twist the Snake. What am I talking about? The new plush character toys from ‘My Blue Nose Friends’ that’s who! They’re super soft with beany bottoms and of course they have the famous blue noses! Tatty Teddy and his blue nosed friends have adorned greetings cards for as long as I can remember and the toys have become collectors items. In fact, one of my friends collects those sweet little […]

I really like Little Tikes toys. They’re built to last and seem to be timeless in their design. I wrote a piece recently about Jimmy’s push along trike which is a Little Tikes one and in the piece I talked about how we also love their Cosy Coupe. Florence has one and it’s almost identical to the one my brothers had when they were little! The designs don’t change much because they don’t have to! Little Tikes don’t just make […]

If you’ve read my blog recently then you’ll know that I’ve been using my new camera, the Nikon D3200, for a couple of months now. You will also have noticed that often I’m not that wonderful at taking pictures… It’s not that I don’t have good ideas, I definitely do, and in my head I know exactly how I want the shot to look, but in practice it often doesn’t come off the way I envisage… I realised, despite taking […]