Karaoke At The Bowling House Norwich! A couple of week’s ago Jonny and I had a really fun date night at The Bowling House in Norwich. The Bowling House is a kitsch and bijou bowling alley filled with artistic details and vintage feels where you can dine (the food was exceptional on our date), drink (cocktails are pretty special), bowl (obvs) and now you can even hire their private karaoke booth! Basically, there’s no need to go anywhere else if […]
Top Toys For Christmas 2018! Yesterday Raffie and I headed into London town to have a perusal of the top Christmas toys for 2018 as decided by the Toy Retailer’s Association. This is an annual event where by the top 12 toys overall are announced from all the nominations in every category. Well we went, we saw, we discovered and we also did our own little reconnaissance of the toys situation and I have to say… Some winners we absolutely agreed […]
Dearest My loves, I was writing to Raffie on the 9th of every month as a way of keeping a diary of his milestones. He turned one and I decided to stop the open letter posts to him and instead, when I feel like it, I will write to all my little loves to keep up with what they are doing and to look back and remember when things were. My blog is nothing if not an invaluable tool for […]
Awful Auntie – Norwich Theatre Royal! Awful Auntie is on tour and she hit Norwich last night for the first of a three night run! Now before I go on I must say that it was BRILLIANT! AMAZING! FABULOUS! The Birmingham Stage Company have the most creative sets which made the whole thing feel magical and enchanting! With rotating turrets to move and change into whatever they needed to be with lighting, textiles and even puppetry (which was glorious) to […]
Halloween Half Term 2018! First of all it doesn’t seem right that half term is over because it all happened too quickly and secondly, it’s not even Halloween yet so I’m absolutely sure that by rights the kids should still be off… Alas, they went back today leaving me and the Raff feeling more than a little longing for their company and reflecting on a truly fab week off together. Well, a really it was 11 days as they had […]
Fitbit For The Whole Family! I remember my first step counter costing about £2. It came from argos and clipped onto my belt. It was rather hit and miss for actually calculating the exact number of steps I took and it was not even reliable for staying about my person. It fell off and got misplaced so many times it really wasn’t worth having but such items have come on with technology so much since then that I almost wish […]
Foreo Mikro Dentist! I’m going to level with you here, teeth brushing in this house doesn’t always feel like the easiest of tasks. The big kids have long gone past the point of accepting my help with the brushing and I’m not sure that Jimmy is terribly good at doing it himself, while the tiny one and his 6 very new teeth do not display signs of pleasure when the toothbrush comes out twice a day. Florence is pretty good about […]
Secrets Of Science With Project Mc2! Chances are if you have a daughter of a certain age you will have heard of the Netflix show Project Mc2! I’m not saying boys can’t enjoy it, far from it because Jimmy is a massive fan but actually I think he may not have given it a go if it hadn’t been for his sister watching! I think girls are drawn to it because the cast list is a gaggle of super brainy, […]
BeWILDerwood’s Glorious Glowing Lantern Parade! Since Florence was teeny tiny we’ve never missed the Glorious Glowing Lantern parade at BeWILDerwood for their October Halloween half term extravaganza. Even last year with a 3 week old Raffie and my slow recovery from a c-section and we still made it. We didn’t go until late in the day because the parade doesn’t start until after the sun goes down but we just had to make sure we were there for at least […]
Willows Activity Farm Halloween Half Term! Willows is just about our favourite farm ever! It used to take us about half an hour to get there from East London but we still travel the two hours it takes now from our new house in Norfolk because… Well, you would have to visit to truly get an idea about why we love it so but for now you’ll have to take my word for it, the place is BRILLIANT! Ok, so […]
