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 […]
Last week I was looking to buy a thank you gift of Vodka to give our bulders who have gone above and beyond on our mammoth house renovation this summer. I don’t really drink Vodka myself, bad experiences in my youth with that and Cider have left me a little green when thinking about them, so I don’t know much about what’s good and only really have on my radar what’s bad! I looked around in the supermarkets but there’s […]
My Mum’s a massive fan of Hotter Shoes and has worn them religiously for years. Now love my Mum as I do (she’s pretty blooming fabulous), we do not exactly share the same fashion tastes… She goes for comfort over style most of the time whereas I’m probably the exact opposite… When wearing particularly high and impractical footwear I’ve been known in the past to take cover up out with me as when they eventually start to rub I don’t want any […]
It’s been a summer of love for us this holiday and I am more than a little sad it’s nearly over. One days to go and my girl goes into year two. Two days left until Jimmy my baby, GULP, starts big school… I am so sad already and I know that next week I am just gonna feel blue, blue, blue but at least I have the wonderful summer to look back on. It feels like it’s been one of those […]
The past few days have been very exciting because we had our gorgeous friends Katy, Daisy and Evie (the team at ModernMummy) to stay and in two days we managed to pack a heck of a lot in! We wanted to show them our Norfolk and our fave things about living here so trips to Cromer and BeWILDerwood (as well as some boring school shoe shopping) were on the cards and in true Katy and I style there HAD to […]
In two week’s time it will be back to school and this means only one thing right now… Uniform shopping. I absolutely despise this element of the summer holidays because it has to be done now (or everything will sell out) and it has to be done in person (because kid’s uniform needs to be tried on and fit perfectly knowing that there’s no time to waste sending things back). Gah! It seems blooming unfair that a whole day of […]
