On Sunday we decided we would take a trip into the forest and visit Thorndon Country Park in Essex and it’s famous Gruffalo trail. I don’t know if it’s really famous or not but amongst my friends (who mainly live in East London) it does seem to be, with Facebook photographs popping up right, left and centre of their children finding the wooden Gruffalo characters amongst the trees! We’ve been meaning to go for some time now but haven’t got round […]

My Mum has an Aldi within a ten minute walk from her house and she spends so much time in there that we joke it’s her Mecca! When it first opened she didn’t use it as much as she does now because the ranges weren’t all that extensive and I have to admit that I may have even turned my nose up slightly. Over time and she now can do about 90% of her shopping in there (I thought it […]

On Friday we took Le Donk to meet his people at the Bugaboo launch party for their new collaboration with style icon Andy Warhol! I still haven’t as yet ‘jazzed up for summer‘ so my poor Donkey very definitely looked a bit wintry compared to all the shiny new beautifully coloured ones! Still, his day will come. We WILL have a sunny enough day to jazz him up soon… It also made me feel like my Bee might be in need of […]

While at the Science Museum this week a big ten year old (ish) boy pushed Florence out of the way really hard. She was quite upset and he just laughed so… Without thinking I said ‘OY! Push my little girl again and I’ll push you!’ He looked at me with such defiance and I thought, goodness, not all children are sweet! Perhaps I shouldn’t have spoken to him like that but my word he annoyed me and when I gave […]

We love visiting the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon! We went to review their production of ‘Too Many Penguins’ before Christmas and we’ve been looking forward to going back ever since! (For the train in the coffee shop where you can sit and have lunch and the wonderful play equipment as much as a new show!) They have some really exciting things coming up like ‘Charlie and Lola’ and also some very interesting projects for babies under 1 which we want to squeeee […]

My friend Jennie who writes the Edspire blog has asked her blogging friends to write something to promote the new name of the FSID charity who have today become known as The Lullaby Trust. Jennie and her family so sadly lost their darling baby girl Matilda Mae to SIDS, just a few short weeks ago and since then the blogging community have been behind Jennie wanting to hold, help and look after her in any way that they can. She […]

Last week I wrote about our planting of tomato seeds which Heinz sent us for their challenge. Everyone can apply to get some FREE seeds from their Facebook page and join in with the challenge too! Share your pictures for the Greenhouse Photo Gallery, Attend the Tomato School, play the Tomato Game and read all about how Heinz grow theirs, as well as getting some tips and tricks for growing yours! Anyway, it’s only been a week since we planted […]

The first time Florence was introduced to Lazy Town was when we saw Robbie Rotten playing the baddy in a live show! We booed and hissed our way through and cheered as Sportacus and Stephanie helped save the day! We thoroughly enjoy the show too and are super excited that we have got to see some of the episodes for the new series before anyone else! We were very lucky to have been invited to the launch party for the […]

The weather might not realise it but Mothercare certainly do! It’s spring and summer is just around the corner! Bright, bold colours are all the rage for this year and who better to pull off some colourful action in the clothing department but the little ones! Mothercare’s new ‘Spring into Colour’ collection is just totally fabulous and as soon as we saw their new video to introduce it we fell in love with some of the key pieces! It’s not […]

I’m not generally very eager to bring messy play into the house knowing that I’d have to clear it up and it might get on the carpet! I usually save it for in the garden at my Mum’s or because we have excellent Surestart centres near us, that have activities daily, it always seems easier to let Florence and Jimmy get REALLY messy there rather than at home. I know how lazy that is of me so things are about […]