Well, that’s it, the October half term holiday is over and we’re well and truly back to school counting down the days until Christmas! While I love the build up to the festive period I am also very aware, this year, that it will be our last few weeks living in our capital city. After almost a decade of London life it’s back to Norfolk we go come January! Although the children will return to school in London after the […]
This afternoon I got a sneaky peek at the upcoming spring/summer offerings from Mothercare. And, more importantly, a first look at their glorious Little Bird By Jools range! Every season Jools Oliver’s designs leave me in a tizzy wondering which items to buy (most) and which items I reluctantly have to leave so that my purse strings don’t entirely disappear! First up I’m going to show you my fave pieces for Spring/Summer 2016 from Little Bird, because, well, I just can’t wait! […]
I’d kept hearing about Magformers on social media but had no idea what, exactly, they were. I had in my mind some sort of transformers type robot, I guess because the name is similar, and I hadn’t delved too much further until my Mum said that Jimmy had been playing with some at a play group and loved them. She told me, after she’d been looking after him for the day, that he’d made an absolute beeline for these bricks […]
This Halloween half term we spent half of it in Norfolk visiting my Mum. We’re soon to be moving back to the county from London and because we’re used to having a plethora of activities to do in the capital, we are starting think about the things we will be able to do when we move. We decided that we would buy three or four annual passes to local attractions and spent three days this holiday doing a reccy of […]
As many of you who read this blog regularly will know, the Rocknrollerbabies are on the move to Norfolk. I personally have been in London for nearly a decade, Jonny longer than that and both children were born here so it’s a big wrench for us to leave even if technically we are ‘going home’! Jonny and I were both born in and grew up in Norwich so a move back to the land of flat is not totally alien […]
On Wednesday of last week we tried desperately hard to get into town for some events in central London but we were foiled at every turn. We’d rushed out very early to get there on time but when we got to the tube the central line was down and all around us people were flooding out of the station like ants on a mission. We tried to get a bus to no avail. We asked in taxi ranks how long […]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Father Christmas really could pay you a visit? I mean, obviously we all know he’s REAL, but he couldn’t possibly cover the whole of Christmas for every one of us now could he?! He can, however, cover it for one lucky reader of Rocknrollerbaby, ModernMummy, FamilyFourFun and Mummy Endeavours… Yes, that’s right, myself and three other super bloggers are playing #SantasLittleHelpers and we’re going to give YOU the chance to #WinChristmas! How fabulous is […]
With the festive season fast approaching, Early Learning Centre is helping spread Christmas cheer by revealing little ones’ favourite cracker jokes. A short film, available on www.youtube.com/mothercare, captures the children’s cute joke telling and hilarious reactions. The video marks the launch of Early Learning Centre’s Christmas gifts featuring a collection of top toys designed to ignite children’s imaginations and encourage learning through play, with toys such as the Sing-Along CD Player, Wooden Farmhouse Kitchen and Big City Wooden Train Table. […]
On Tuesday night, after a hospital procedure which meant I couldn’t really eat for three days prior to it, I headed into central London for a spot of cookery competition at L’Atelier Des Chefs on Wigmore Street. Heinz have recently launched a range of chilli sauces which they sent me to try and then use for the recipe I was to cook at the event. From the Jerk BBQ, Fiery Sriracha, Sweet Chilli, Per Peri and Hot Chilli I decided […]
It’s not that I’ve deliberately gone out of my way to try and pull the wool over my children’s eyes when it comes to the truth about meat but there’s never really been a great opportunity or opening for me to explain things properly; because of this, their view seems to be somewhat skewed. I suppose when Florence was teeny tiny, under two I think and on the way back from a play group, I had one moment in time […]
