We may have lived in London for an awfully long time and taken advantage of much on offer in our beautiful capital city but… It’s take us until we left to actually go back and do something we’ve wanted to for ages! Dining at Planet Hollywood! It’s something we’ve always talked about but never quite got our acts together enough to actually do. Until now! And along with Katy from Modern Mummy and her girls we headed over to the […]

We visited Ripley’s Believe It Or Not when Florence was really very tiny and I was pregnant with Jimmy. It was absolutely ages ago now I suppose and Florence probably wasn’t the right age to enjoy it but I found it quite a fascinating place. I remember wondering when she’d be old enough to appreciate such a place of wonder – it’s a museum dedicated to the weird and the wonderful – think the tallest man in the world, a […]

We’ve just come back from a mini break in London where we stayed at the Novotel Paddington and frankly, we couldn’t have wanted anything more from our stay. The hotel provided the perfect backdrop to everything else we did and was so brilliantly located with thoughtful details for a family inside that we HAVE to make plans to go back! Leaving London full time was one of the best things we ever did as a family. Getting out has meant for […]

Yesterday we went into town to join the launch party for the brand new collectable L.O.L Surprise Dolls from MGA. Held at the White City Westfield Entertainer Store the party opened its doors to the public and introduced them to L.O.L Surprise dolls for the first time! We attended the event with friends from Modern Mummy, The Joy Of Five, Mummy Is A Gadget Geek, N4Mummy, and Mummy Endeavours so naturally it was always going to be fun for us with friends but… […]

There are some easy meals which you just can’t beat for comfort and while some of them, like beans on toast, come with a pretty quick prep time, others take just that bit too long to make them a regular on the pop up supper scene when you’ve only a short time to spare. You know the days, nothing is prepared and you need to eat now! This is exactly why ‘something on toast’ may win over the beloved jacket potato […]

As a professional blogger part of my job often involves being invited to some pretty swanky parties and though I’d love to say it’s all work, work, work… (and there is an element of that believe me), it IS just as much fun as it sounds! This Monday, the first day in half term, we have been invited to the launch party of a new collectable doll range from MGA, and we are mega excited because, well, who wouldn’t be? Launch […]

When I went to the Mothercare Spring/Summer preview for 2017 back in November I wrote about my favourite pieces from the show and of course, as always, most of them came from the Little Bird by Jools collection. I just can’t get enough of the designs super Mum Jools Oliver comes up with and just as with every collection to date I have a list as long as my arm of all the pieces I want to dress Florence and Jimmy […]

Back in October after meeting the fab guys from Back In Action, a shop with design as well as comfort at the forefront of their offerings, I was sent a Mobiliser to test for a few months and review on the blog. The Mobiliser is, as they say at Back In Action, a powerful spinal join mobilisation system and is something you can have and use at home to give the benefits of a physiotherapy session to poorly backs. It’s […]

There’s been a fair amount of posts about bullying in the blogosphere of recent late and I’ve read them with interest. Donna Wishart from What The Red Head Said wrote only last week of her experiences at being bullied as an adult and I’ve read plenty more to do with times looked back on from other’s school days. I myself wasn’t really bullied at school – at least that’s how I remember it. There were brief moments in my teens where […]

Just in case any of you were left wondering just how curmudgeonly this Mummy can be after my last post… I wanted to set your mind at rest and let you know that Barnaby The Bear had a truly spiffing time with us! Ok, ok, I moaned but I quite got into it in the end (having a competitive streak helps) and Jimmy was thrilled to bits with the activities we got up to with the class puppet, I mean […]