A couple of week’s ago I found the perfect costume for Jimmy’s Halloween fancy dress! A thick warm onesie with glow in the dark skeleton bones and some socks with skeleton bone feet to go with it. The onesie cost a tenner and the socks were a bargainous £1 in Asda and he’s utterly thrilled with the costume. It’s not halloween until the end of this week but he’s been wearing his costume lots already and actually, I think it […]

It’s time to say Eho Oh again and time indeed for Teletubbies as they hit our screens in their big 2015 come back! Teletubbies was first broadcast back in 1997. Amazingly, considering I was 17 at the time, I remember it well. I guess it was one of those shows that the students watched as well or perhaps it was just me? I don’t think so though, my friend Angela was definitely a fan too and she bought me a […]

I have to say that when I was invited along to find out all about EasiYo yogurt makers I was rather skeptical. You see yogurt is fairly inexpensive in the supermarket and the idea of making my own as an alternative sounded like it might be rather a faff too far for me! However, I’m open to finding out about new things and wanted to go along and see for real why people buy yet another gizmo gadget to store in their kitchens […]

I’m sure most of us have heard about poor Claudia Winkleman’s daughter who last year, at Halloween, was wearing a flammable dressing up costume which came into contact with a naked flame. Of course it wasn’t her parent’s fault, we ALL dress our children up in these sort of fabrics at this time of year, but before that it probably wasn’t on most of our radars quite how dangerous it could be. Claudia has worked very hard to talk about […]

Two years ago we worked with Pampers to help promote their 1 Pack = 1 Vaccine campaign. This is their partnership with Unicef to donate vaccines in third world countries to eradicate maternal and newborn tetanus. For every pack of Pampers bought they will donate a vaccine and have been doing so for the last ten years! Maternal and newborn tetanus may not be a disease that you’re familiar with because here in the UK we receive vaccinations and, more […]

When the children were tiny we used to put them in those gorgeous little sleeping bags which zipped around them and poppered over their shouldres. they were great for keeping them warm as they didn’t need a blanket over them which might have got kicked off and when they were really, really tiny they were good for peace of mind knowing that they didn’t have a cover which might go over their faces in the night. Florence loved hers in […]

A couple of years ago we met the author Michael Rosen on an organised ‘bear hunt’ in the woods. It was all about an initiative with Highland Spring to get the nation writing the longest ever fairytale and we had the most splendid day with Michael who read to the children and was exactly how he seems on screen. He made us smile from the minute we got there until the minute we left and even though it was such […]

McCain wrote to me a couple of week’s ago with a suggestion that I might let the kids takeover teatime. Now while we do quite a bit of baking together I have never really let the children loose on anything more than decorating the top of a pizza so I was quite unsure what to cook with them. Our kitchen is tiny (just another reason for our upcoming move) and frankly I like to get in and out as quickly […]

This week we were sent the a brand new magazine to review from the one and only ‘Hey Duggee‘ of CBeebies fame. The show, which Jimmy is really rather fond of (it’s aimed at ages 3-5) is based around the Squirrel Club which is a bit like Rainbows/Brownies and Cubs in the sense that all the little characters work towards gaining badges for their accomplishments. It’s really very sweet and as each epsode teaches a new skill to the audience as […]