On Wednesday night I took a little jaunt back to London for an evening Italian dining at the Giovanni Ranna restaurant near Great Portland Street. Along with lots of other bloggers and journalists we were presented with an evening of fizz and food to showcase the new Cioa Gusto Shop at Ocado. Ocado is online grocery shopping at its finest and now, when searching for authentic Italian ingredients, you simply have to click on the Ciao Gusto Shop tab within the website […]

I’ve worked with Stokke for a very long time now and am more than a fan of their products. I feel like I know all of them even though I’ve only actually owned two (a Stokke Xplory buggy and the Stokke Steps high chair) because once you’re bitten by the Stokke bug you just fall in love with the whole range. I frequently pour over the latest colours for Style Kits (a way of changing up all the Stokke buggies […]

Last week we held a #PuppyInMyPocket party alongside a Twitter party for the same theme. We played games like picking up pairs (Puppy In My Pocket pairs of course), couloured in, poured over word searches, ate cakes (no party is complete without cakes) and played with some toys from the new range! We had brilliant fun joining in both for real at home and on line with the Twitter party and loved watching other people win some of the fantastic […]

I’m very concerned about car seats and always have been. Both my children were in the rear facing infant seat until they were nearly two and for safety I felt this entirely necessary. Lots of my friends moved their children up one as soon as they reached the minimum weight but while mine were still small enough and under the maximum weight I wanted them in that rear facing seat as long as they could. Once they had outgrown it I then went […]

When we moved house in February I knew that I wanted to do lots of work to our new house and had some big decisions to make for what, when and how. As well as a loft conversion we had our heart set on a new kitchen and I took a very long time ruminating over exactly what I desired. It was dark and cold back then and I couldn’t face starting anything serious until the summer months arrived with sunshine to […]

On Saturday Florence and I took two of our new friends to London to see The Railway Children at the amazing purpose built theatre near Kings Cross station. The theatre itself is in fact a replica station and very exciting on its won without even seeing the show and having been before (twice) we were super excited to see what our pals thought. The first time Florence and I saw the show was on opening night and we thought it […]

It’s been a long time since I received maternity pay and thankfully, for me at the time, I was made redundant just as I was about to take the leave. As horrendous as this sounds (and there were quite a few tears at the time I can tell you) it didn’t work out too badly. I was working for a big financial company who were very, very worried about the implications of effectively dismissing a heavily pregnant woman and subsequently […]

Jimmy got Brio for his second birthday having fallen in love with the ancient set that used to be mine when staying at my Mum’s. My old set was year’s old when I was given it having been bought from a jumble sale by my Grandpa and clearly it is still going strong today so I had no worries when buying a load for Jimmy to celebrate his birthday. He absolutely loved it and it has been a toy he’s […]

I love a good Twitter party, who doesn’t? A quick social hit to find out all about a product and the chance to win lots of lovely prizes – whoop, whoop! Next week I am able to invite y’all (yes YOU) to join me and a gang of other lovely hosts as we take charge of twitter and talk all things ‘Puppy In My Pocket‘ with UkMums TV! The party starts at 1pm on September 28th and will be a whole 2 […]

I don’t know where the time has gone but my baby boy started school softly last week. Three half sessions followed by five half sessions and next week, gulp, he is going to go all day… I’m not very keen on the idea but hey, despite my wanting to keep him tiny he is growing up and I have to let him. This time last year he was off to the nursery attached to Florence’s school in London and I […]