With one week to go before the big day I’ve realised that I haven’t written a diary update since before Halloween. I try really hard to write them every so often so that we can look back and remember what we were up to but the more time I leave it the more time seems to go on and I’ve decided I just have to bite the bullet and update with some pictures for posterity. The run up to Christmas […]

Driving the new Ford KA+ is what I’ve been doing for the past week and I have to tell you, it’s a lovely little motor. Ford approached me a few week’s ago and asked if I’d like to give their new nifty little 5 door member to the fleet a test drive and how could I resist? I’d never driven a brand new car before and having only driven an automatic since the day I passed my test I was eager to […]

I am an absolute sucker for a bargain but… Only if it’s a ‘good one’ and by that I mean quality over everything. I see no point in buying something that looks the part but which will fall apart tomorrow so my thrifty shopping doesn’t happen every day. However… I am a massive fan of Poundland and this Christmas they really have pushed the boat out when it comes to money saving AND quality! I have lost all snobbery when […]

In the summer I fell in love with Crocs. Not the original clog style shoes (although it has to be said when they first came out over a decade ago I DID have a pair) but with their other styles of which there are many, many, many! I loved all the jellies and flats and I’ve had a sneak peek at next summer’s styles which didn’t disappoint either. I absolutely adore this sparkly pair which is set to take summer […]

Along with a gaggle of blogging families including, one of my faves, Carolynne from Mummy Endeavours, my Mum, the children and I headed off to Willows Farm in St Albans last weekend to feast our eyes on their Santa’s Spectacular. Now Hertfordshire is a fair old way from us now we’re in Norfolk, a 2 hour drive minimum but… We used to go there a lot when we lived in London and we love it so we knew it would be […]

Florence is a bit of a fan of Lalaloopsy and when I asked her if she wanted to review the ‘Potty Surprise Jewel Sparkle’ doll from the babies range it was an emphatic yes. She has expressed her interest in the Lalaloopsy babies, in particular one with a nappy or a potty, for quite some time so I guess I shouldn’t have expected anything less. It’s interesting that she is just as much into these dolls now as she was […]

I think we all remember having at least one relative who would buy us something very random every birthday and Christmas? Sometimes something inappropriately aged (my husband’s best mate bought Jimmy a Nerf Gun for his 2nd birthday which he LOVED but… Being an 8+ toy it probably was coming to me to get shot in the eye at close range when I let him play with it). And othertimes, as well meaning as the present buying is in the […]

Have you SEEN the new Star Wars toys, an R2-D2 robot & BB8 vehicle from Thinkway Toys? No… Well, if you’ve got a little boy like mine then you might just wanna read on! Oh AND join in with a mega Twitter party I’m co hosting on 30th November from 1-2.30pm – not only will we be talking all things Thinkway R2-D2 and BB-8 but we’ll be giving away some rather fabulous Toys R Us vouchers and if that wasn’e enough you […]

I’ve waxed lyrical on the blog about how much we love Brio. Jimmy gets more and more into the building and creating a story and it continued to eb a massively impressive toy for all of us. I could talk about how long lasting the quality is (I still have a set at my Mum’s for the children top play with which was mine when I was small’ and I could tell you that it really is lovely to watch […]

Social influencing. What is that? Are we only entitled to consider ourselves such if we have sixty thousand followers on Instagram, a similar amount on Twitter and stats to throw us through the roof of every chart going? Hmm, no, I don’t think so. To me, a social influencer is just that. Someone who influences others socially. Now this can be on a grand scale and probably how we ‘most’ consider it to be… Someone who walks on star dust […]