We have a Poundland on our high street and I’ve actually cited it as being on of the things I’m going to miss most when we move. Yes I know there will be a Poundland in Norwich but there’s nothing quite like having one on your doorstep. Run out of milk? Poundland! Need a bribe toy? Poundland! Baking cakes and need gorgeous decorations? Poundland! I pop into Poundland every day and it’s amazing what you can pick up for a […]

It’s been a long time coming but we have finally just bought a high backed booster seat for Florence. I’d heard about the Britax #BinTheBooster seat campaign and knew that we were going to avoid a simple booster cushion at all costs and go for a high backed one as I know they are safer. I just didn’t know which one, where from or how much money I was going to spend? Florence is five and a half now so […]

Summer has rolled around again and we have been spending a good deal of time back in Norfolk staying with my Mum. It’s a lovely place to be in the sunshine and even though it’s home to me really, I’ve been feeling that holiday vibe and getting out and about with all the tourists. Beach days and family attractions are wonderful in both Norfolk and Suffolk and there’s one place that I just wouldn’t want to miss, Pleasurewood Hills! Pleasurewood Hills […]

This time last week the children and I were enjoying the last full day of Camp Bestival where we’d been camping with friends since the Friday. I’d driven down from London and faced the motorway only for the second time before joining Alice from Project Wanderlust at her camp and putting the tent up almost single handed (I did ask for a little bit of help from a young man walking past when the poles needed someone at each end); I felt […]

I started learning how to drive in February and 3 week’s ago I finally passed my test. I say finally as it was my fifth attempt but hey, I got there in the end. This week I have seen the freedom it’s given me and I’ve been able to nip to the coast and other places just because I fancied it; no working out bus and train routes or worrying about sticking to a time table, I just got in the […]

We had the best time at Camp Bestival last year and we can’t wait to go back again this weekend for our second year of Camp B fun! This time we are doing it solo, well, with friends but without any men and it means that I, with my new driving licence, have to drive from London to Dorset then put up a tent on my own. I can do this right?! I’m nervous but then I look at the […]

It doesn’t feel like a week has gone by already but somehow time just flows rather than trickles when your having fun and today we enter the second week of the summer holidays. The first week has been heaped with fun as well as relaxing as my girl definitely needed to re-charge her batteries. I picked her up on the last day of term and she was bouncing around having fun in the play ground but by the time we […]

Just over a year ago we used the Interplay Fairy Garden Kit and Florence was absolutely thrilled with it. It was so much fun and it looked beautiful when the grass had grown. We’ve kept all the bits from it and we will do it again soon for sure because it was just lovely to watch it develop after all the fun of making it up. Around the same time we used another Interplay kit, ‘My Living Butterfly World’ where […]

After reviewing the Schleich Riding Arena a couple of months ago we were sent some of the new toys from the Farm Life range at Schleich to add them to it and make our collection bigger. We were sent 3 new horses, a rider and a selection of accessories like a new saddle, some horse food and treats and a grooming box (which we especially like). There’s something especially gorgeous about Schleich animals and they’ve always been the ones I would choose when buying […]