I’m too young (not something I find myself saying often) to say that I remember The Clangers from their first time around but even though the show stopped broadcasting in 1974 (I wasn’t born until 1979), I still knew exactly who they were. When I was a child it was way before the likes of YouTube and personal tablets so unlike Florence, who watches old shows from my youth on her iPad, I didn’t actually get to see them at […]

I love the film ‘Sliding Doors’ which portrays life changing on the basis of what has or hasn’t gone before it? If we do something one way would the end result be different or the same? Fate or just one moment in time altering the course of destiny forever? Another film, one which I could watch over and over, has a similar concept when it comes to moments in time changing everything forever. ‘One Day’, which was Richard Curtis’s last […]

As people who know me know, I am a massive buggy fanatic. I’ve loved them since I was a child playing with my dolls and when I became an adult I knew which set of wheels I was going to purchase even before I knew when I’d like to have the children to put in one. I’m not entirely sure what it is I love so much about pushing a pram? I just do! But I do know, as with […]

On Sunday we went with the children and friends to the very last day of the British Summer Time Festival. I’d run a competition on my blog to win tickets and the more I wrote about it the more it made me want to go myself! I knew it’d be a great day out for the whole family with a really chilled festival vibe and I just had a hunch that even though the acts were geared up for little ones […]

When over 2,000 adults took part in a survey about tooth care in their families it was revealed that one in five parents don’t have the time to oversee children cleaning their teeth. Two minutes is the recommended time that we brush but it’s no surprise the children aren’t being observed when the survey also flagged up that more than two thirds of the adults brushed for less than the recommended time themselves! Apparently only 15% of them were informed of […]

Being married to a blogger means that my life in words (and pictures) is documented on social media ALL the time. I don’t mind really but it also means when I go out to a football match (Norwich just went up, up, UP) I have to cope with the fact when I get home, a little bit worse for a couple of beers (aherm), I am likely to have a photograph of my snoring face plastered on Twitter and none […]

I missed the launch party for a new vegetarian range at Tesco a few weeks ago but have seen many, many good things on social media about it since. Tesco’s new Vegetarian Kitchen is made up from a selection of ready meals and items like mushroom burgers or cheese and leek sausages (which are just up my street) and the social media world has been alight with positive reports! I was asked if I’d like to try some of the […]

That’s right, the sun is out and the parks near us are fit to bursting with happy faces; it couldn’t be a better week to be deemed ‘National Picnic Week’! We are regular picnic fans even when it’s not a dedicated special week so of course, we have got well and truly stuck into picnic mode now that it is! In order to celebrate we took a picnic to our local park with a gorgeous hamper sent to us by Warburtons. […]

Hello Kitty fever is spreading across the world with the character not only adorning outfits like the ones here, but providing a complete Hello Kitty experience in some of the most bizarre and unexpected places. Here are some of the unusual products and services inspired by the beloved Sanrio character – purr-fect for Hello Kitty fans! Hello Kitty Restaurant If you are a lover of Hello Kitty and Chinese cuisine tickles your taste buds, then you are in for a […]