Since moving house we’ve become quite familiar with home decorating. I have to say that I don’t enjoy painting, don’t seem to be terribly good at it and it takes me forever but I have been tackling the children’s bedrooms because I think it’s important, now that they have space of their own, it’s done exactly how they want it to be. Decorating Florence’s room is a work in progress. she has one pink wall but there’s more which needs to […]

Last night a friend from London, about to take the plunge out from City life, asked me if I could give her some positives about our recent move to Norfolk. I’m not sure she expected much from me because before we left I was rather down in the dumps about it. In fact, the thought of leaving my beloved London and the flat which was my first owned home and the place I gave birth to Jimmy, sent shivers down my […]

I’d heard of TOMS before but it wasn’t until they were mentioned in the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black that I realised what an ethical company they are. As OITNB character Piper is given her prison wear she decides her regulation shoes look a little like TOMS and explains to the guard how TOMS gift a pair of shoes to someone in need every time a purchase is made. I’d had no idea until I heard it on the show but […]

Today (2nd of May) is National Baby Day apparently and it’s very apt for us because it’s my ‘baby’s’ birthday. He may not be an actual new born but when you’re the youngest of the bunch I guess you’re always the baby and when the lovely people at Baby Annabell and BABY Born wanted to celebrate #NationalBabyDay with us by sending us a dolly to play with, it had to be a dolly for my birthday boy Jimmy! I recently read something […]

Seemed ironic that on Tuesday I asked my Mum to help me out, yet again, and have the children for me while I skipped off to London to attend P&G’s #ThankYouMum event. My Mum is ALWAYS helping me out and despite it being her birthday the day before, meaning she’d have to sleep on the blow up bed in my house on the night of her special day, she agreed to baby sit for me as she always does. I […]

We’re massove fans of the Clangers and since the CBeebies revival of the well loved show we’ve been watching and enjoying. The children are so fond that they’ve also got a few of the toys which get played with often and I love the little charcters too so I’ve even begun to knit my own (with a pattern from the BBC website). I’ve done all the knitting part but I’m yet to sew it all together. When I do I […]

I’m a big one for complaining if something isn’t right. Food comes out late in a restaurant or not to my liking and I let the wating staff know. I’m not shy about it and it drives my husband nuts. He’d much rather do the British thing of accepting what’s served, eating it politely, paying and even tipping despite not enjoying an experience. We are very different on that front and it does sometimes cause us to lock horns because […]

If there’s one type of toy sure to put a smile on my little girl’s face then it’s definitely got Disney and Princess in the title! So, when Jakks Pacific asked if we’d like to hold a tea party in order to celebrate #NationalTeaDay I knew that I couldn’t refuse! National tea day could be any day in this house but as there’s an actual declared date for it then we’d have been churlish not to join in with the […]

A while back we were sent a Casdon Woodplay Castle Playset which Jimmy has absolutely loved and played with very frequently ever since. I like it because it’s small with everything fitting inside and because it also has a handle it can be carried easily from room to room. In the new house I’m not keen on toys litering the floors of anywhere but their bedrooms but I do allow a few to make it into the living room and […]

We’ve always enjoyed using the Interplay kits, especially those belonging to their FabLab range. We’ve made bath bombs and chalked our hair different colours and we absolutely LOVE the glitter tattoo kits! I always use them at birthday parties which reminds me, I must get some for Jimmy’s coming up! Because we love the glitter tattoo kit so much I was kind of sure that we would enjoy the Metallic Tattoo Kit too and I wasn’t disappointed. We’ve been havig […]