The Swan Southwold – Mini Review! I have to say it’s not often that my Jonny is terribly romantic but he pulled a blinder out of the bag for my 40th birthday and took me away for a really beautiful night at The Swan Hotel in Southwold. I’d popped in to use the loo a few week’s previously when we’d visited the seaside town for the day and said how lovely it seemed. He remembered, (like this is immense in […]
Nozstock – One Week To Go! This time next week I shall be en-route to Nozstock Hidden Valley in Herefordshire. It’s a festival FOR families which is run BY a family and with its 20,000 visitors going back for more year after year the Nozstock family only gets bigger and bigger! I can’t wait! Glitter is potted, booze is on ice and the kids are almost at fever pitch (we are camping this weekend too so they are like wild […]
This Is 40! I couldn’t quite believe I was going to be 40. I mean I remember my parent’s having this BIG birthday themselves, celebrating with them and thinking man, they’re old! Now all of a sudden I’m here too. Am I old? Florence said of someone the other day ‘he’s old, maybe 35’ and then clasped her hand to her mouth knowing this would have pricked my ears up. ‘You’re not old though mummy, he’s older than you so […]
The True Weight! In 1985 I was five years old and full of the joys of everything – I was a monkey like Jimmy and just like him I cared not about what I looked like, or for that matter how anyone else looked. I was young, carefree, I ate what I ate and I didn’t think about it any further than it was breakfast or lunch or yummy, I was having a snack. But looking back that might be the […]
Tribe Norfolk – Family Festival East Side! You don’t go through Norfolk on your way to anywhere else. You either come here. Or… You don’t. So I guess you need reasons to visit or you simply won’t make our lovely little county of glorious. And this would mean you’d miss out! There are reasons a plenty though my friend… But if the beaches (Cromer’s my fave) and the picturesque shopping, the close proximity to fast train travel into London, two […]
Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom Live On Stage 2019 – Theatre Royal Norwich! The first time I took Florence to see something from television at the theatre her eyes were wide on saucers. She took in this wonder that she’d only seen on the television and couldn’t quite understand how it was all happening in front of her very eyes but she loved every second! It was In The Night Garden Live and over the years she has enjoyed many […]
Wanna Be A Blogger? Why wouldn’t you? I can tell you now it’s one of the best things I have ever done and I highly recommend it but you will have to ask yourself if you really have got what it takes as it’s not easy… Now… Where to begin? It can be baffling – other people are doing it, the world and his wife are trying, but where did they start and how?! So you want to be a blogger […]
Stay-cay In A Norfolk Cottage! If I’m asked why I left the bright lights of London to come home and roost where I grew up in Norwich, my answer is pretty straightforward… Norfolk is the place Londoners go on holiday choosing little stay-cations in a county of calm to take them away from their city life stresses. To live in that place is like being on holiday all the time. I mean don’t get me wrong, there’s the drudge of everyday life of course but […]
Colief Baby Scalp Oil As Part Of The Perfect Bed Time Routine! My husband thinks I’m totally and utterly bonkers as I have stuck to the same bed time routine with Raffie since the very first bath we gave him the day after we brought him home from the hospital. Jonny thinks I’m off my rocker and that it can’t possibly make a difference however I know, having missed the odd night here and there, that it absolutely does work […]
BeWILDerwood Launches The Towering Treetop Tangles! I’ve long said, on many a post, a story or a grid pic that BeWILDerwood is the best day out in the county then I’ve corrected myself and said that actually, I wholeheartedly believe it to be the best in the country! I’ve waxed lyrical about this place so much ever since Florence was a baby that I have followers in other countries who send me messages every time we go to say how […]
