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 […]

It’s nearly time for a new school year and to celebrate (ok, we’ve got to find something otherwise we’d just be commiserating) it has to be the bringing back of the #StyleTheSchoolRun hashtag incentive on social media! Along with founder of the project Katy from Modern Mummy and dedicated fashionistas Kara from Innocent Charms Chats and Carissa of Little Likely Lads, I will be, once again, hoping to inspire mums everywhere to get their school run grooves on when it […]

We are massive fans of Startrite shoes for a number of reasons. In Norwich we are home to the Startrite factory so it’s only fitting but more than that they just do seem to be a cut above. Florence and Jimmy both need a narrower fitting and Startrite go down to a very slim width which is perfect – I have found other brands just can’t seem to compete. Obviously they make shoes for all fittings but the fact that they […]

We’ve had a Coleman tent since 2014 and used it for all of our camping adventures since – to which it has proved brilliant. Before that we had a cheapy thing that we bought with no camping experience whatsoever and it was rather untrustworthy and leaky if it rained. I mean no one WANTS to go camping in the rain but being a resident and camper of Great Britain it is somewhat rather an inevitability so a tent that stays dry […]

This time last year I was organising my cousin’s hen do in London where we first of all went to Go Ape for some treetop fun before retiring, of course, to establishments selling bubbles and cocktails. It was a really fun afternoon and something a bit different to do before we all got a bit merry and I thought then that I really had to bring Florence and Jimmy at some point. Waiting for Jimmy to be over a meter tall (or […]

We are just over half way through the summer holidays and with three weeks left exactly for us before the kids go back to school I’m reflecting on the fun we’ve had so far! I like to pack it in, keep them busy and whip up as much excitement as I can. Call me crazy at nearly 8 months pregnant perhaps but I just adore our time together and want to make it count! we’ve been all over, camping to […]