The new Stokke XPlory V6 is launching tomorrow and ahead of the big party to celebrate, Raffie and I have been one of the first families to use the updated and much loved stroller! Now we are very familiar with the Stokke XPlory having used a V4 with Jimmy and a V5 with Raffie from birth. I just wrote about how much we enjoyed using the carry cot on the V5 with the Raffster a couple of week’s ago and how […]

I’ve entitled this post Easter Holiday Fun but actually, for half of it we were quite poorly. The big kids had sickness bugs and Jonny too while I had Norovirus. I’m not sure if we all had Norovirus really but I definitely came out the worst and for the first half of the holiday I was pretty much bed bound. It wasn’t much fun and Jonny, who had taken the week off work (typically), was having to do most of […]

Easter has been a bit of a washout for us both in terms of the weather (I need some sunshine) and because we’ve been struck down with Norovirus. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so ill and the big kids and Jonny have also had a bit of a bout so all in all it’s not been great! Jonny was off for the first week on holiday but I was so poorly I couldn’t do anything and everyone else tag […]

Dearest Raffie, Six months. Half a year. A half birthday! I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, time is going SO fast it’s like we’re on a hill and running down it as fast as we can while gravity pushes us a bit harder. I love it but I don’t half wish it could slow down a bit too. Because these moments that have happened in the past six months, the ones which have taken my newborn from […]

We went to London today to do a couple of fun things in a bid to kick the Easter holidays off in style! We were not terribly happy that the first couple of days off school had been full of sickness bugs so we had to make up for lost time and boy did we cram it in and do just that! First off we went back to Dinosaurs In the Wild at the Greenwich Peninsula so that we could […]

It was rather fortuitous last week when I was sent some Colief Breathe Easy Patches because within 24 hours of them arriving on my doormat both kids basically succumbed to a cold which left them unable to even sleep because of either the coughing or their bunged up noses. Poor little sausages! Jimmy coughed so much it actually made him sick and as the school has the 48 hour rule on that shizzle he ended up staying at home on Monday so that he […]

I’ve been waiting for a really long time to get some sunshine drinks (what with being pregnant all last summer) so don’t let the current weather make you think I’m going to wait any longer! The spring equinox has been and gone so with or without any actual sunshine poking through the clouds (and let’s face it, it has occasionally showed its face) the spring for my drinking cabinet has well and truly sprung! This month I’ve been taste testing […]

We are long time fans of Willows Farm in Hertfordshire and would make regular trips when we lived in East London, a 45 minute car ride away. Now that we are in Norfolk we tend not to visit quite so frequently but we do absolutely still go and there are a few points during the year that we never want to miss a visit. Willows go all out for different pin pointed celebrations and Christmas is our first ‘never miss’ while the […]

For as long as I can remember Jimmy has been obsessed with construction and building things. I remember when he was quite a lot younger going to the top of the BT Tower (get us) and while Florence and I marvelled at the views and hoovered up the amazing food (it was a pretty swish party), Jimmy lay on the floor just where the join sat that rotated the floor around. He just looked and looked and looked at it […]

If you’ve been watching my Instagram Stories over the past few weeks then you’ll have seen us out and about with our new set of wheels, the new Quantum Classic from Diono. This is an all in one travel system buggy which comes with practically everything you need all in one purchase. So often with buggies now and you only get the mere basics, while the extras (I’m not just talking the cup holder here but the bassinet, an integral part as […]