I am about to become a ‘new mum’ again any day now and it got me thinking about all the mum hack type things I’ve learned since I did this newborn baby malarkey for the first time. You start out blind and fudge your way through for a few weeks but eventually you find some top tips which make life SO much easier! I thought it would be a good idea to share some of this knowledge so I asked the […]
Before I got pregnant this time I would wax lyrical about what a wonderfully beautiful experience carrying a child for 9 months is… I remember floating around like some bloody mother earth idiot and always having a smile on my face. Scratch that bloody record a minute will you! Now… I don’t know if I was A) looking back through rose tinted spectacles, B) just the luckiest super human EVER for rounds one and two or if C) I was […]
Ok, ok… I’ve done this twice before so I should know what I’m doing and when it comes to the hospital bag (even though I hope I won’t be going anywhere near a hospital – fingers crossed for a home birth)! I know only too well that we end up being cajoled into packing a whole heap of pap that we don’t need so… Here’s the benefit of my wisdom as a gal who has pushed two babes out of […]
Today I went for a little Nana nap (I AM 37 weeks pregnant – it IS allowed right?!) and when I woke up I had this mega awesome invitation to a baby shower being thrown on Friday morning. For ME! My lovely friends at Family Four Fun, Modern Mummy, Mummy Endeavours, Deep In Mummy Matters, Innocent Charms Chats, The Joy Of Five and N4Mummy have helped to organise this for me with my absolute faves Mothercare and on Friday morning […]
On Saturday we went to London (what’s new) to meet up with one of our favourite group of pals, the Modern Mummy gang! I am reminded that trips to London are going to slow down in the coming weeks as the baby is due so soon so I am always happy to get them in while I can and this week’s reason was to celebrate the launch of the DC Superhero Girls film ‘Brain Drain’ on DVD! We had a great time […]
One of the highlights of 2017 for us has been our amazing holiday with James Villas. My Mum, for a treat, took us to Majorca back in June and it kind of changed the way we think about holidays for the whole family. Renting a private villa with a private pool is a whole different story to staying in a busy hotel or even a villa complex and actually, I think we all rather fell in love with the notion. […]
I knew it would go in a flash… Time always flies when you’re having fun and we packed so much of that into this summer holiday it was bound to disappear at the speed of light! I last write about our summer holiday when we were half way through and on holiday in Cornwall. It still seemed like we had ages left at that point but it could have been five minutes ago and here we are ready to go […]
Somehow time has marched on and although I am sad to have reached the end of the summer I am SO happy that this spells the very near ending of this third and final pregnancy for me. It has not been my favourite experience ever as you will now if you’ve been reading my diary and it’s been a world away from my other two pregnancies – which were absolutely perfectly easy! IF I had been planning on having any […]
If you know me then you will know that I get just a little bit excited at the sighting of a celebrity. Call me a saddo I don’t care, I think it’s very exciting to be spotting the shiny people and this summer I’ve had some very good spots indeed including ex PM David Cameron on Polzeath beach! Ok, ok, so he’s not my target celebrity when it comes to the spot and I was very grumpy when the next […]
I’ve been to a lot of gigs over the years ranging from the amazing (Michael Jackson springs to mind) to the not so fab (I lived in East London and saw a lot of live acts who probably should have been queuing up for a job in Tesco but were trying their luck) and last night I tripped off to Norwich’s Earlham Park for the finale concert of their season by teen and tween faves Little Mix. If I’m honest […]
