Suffolk Yurt Holidays Again! After the most glorious weekend at the Suffolk Yurt Holidays site last year, we booked again right away to return. I couldn’t get my birthday weekend for 2023 but as luck would have it my Mother In Law’s 70th fell on a weekend when they did have full site availability so we snapped that up and booked in advance for 2024 as well! And we’ve just got back from that second stay to celebrate my Mother […]
Summer Holidays 2023 – Week 3! We started the week by getting up bright and early (I’m talking still the middle of the night really) and heading down to Cornwall for 5 days of camping in Polzeath. We had planned August thinking it would be bright and sunny but, alas, the weather in the run up was anything but and we were very worried about it thinking it would be a complete wash out. Luckily the weather turned a little […]
Top Of The Shop At Lands’ End! Without doubt I get compliments every single time I wear something from Lands’ End. People actually stop me in the street when I wear my multi coloured rain mac and when I am (frequently) asked about it online too, I’m often sent messages of disappointment that it is old stock now and no longer on sale. That’s the thing you see, old stock and no longer on sale it may be, but out […]
Summer Holidays 2023 – Week 2! Week two (or 4 if you’re Florence) has been far, far quieter than I would ideally like. If it were up to me no one would go anywhere without the rest of us and we’d be stuck together like glue all the time. The reality is though that as the big kids get older they want to do different things, sometimes with their mates and sometimes they just want to stay at home and […]
What’s With This Weather?! You know you’re in the midst of middle age when you realise you start every conversation with something about the weather! In my defence, it has to be said, we are in the thick of August and our perilous weather conditions are actually worse than they were in October! I remember feeling sun on my face in the half term of Halloween which is more than I can say about this summer holiday so far. And […]
The Power In NOT Having The Last Word! When speaking with a friend recently, over a dilemma with a tricky situation I found myself in, she gave me some very handy advice that I wanted to pass on. “There’s a great deal of power in NOT having the last word!” Having always felt confident to fight my own corner, and indeed the corner of others when I believe in them, I’ve never had any qualms about being stood up and […]
Summer Holidays 2023 – Week 1 (and -1&2)! The summer holidays started for Florence on my birthday weekend so I’m calling them summer holidays weeks – 1&2! And now the boys have finally broken up too we’ve had our first week all together. What a busy time we’ve had with busy birthday celebrations for me being an evening beach trip to Cromer for me and the littles, a day at Center Parcs and then a very soggy beach day in […]
Activities For Summer With Books2Door! You’ll have seen me in June waxing lyrical about the fab books which came in our Books2Door subscription package for Raffie. The sub is exactly what it says on the tin, books delivered to your door each month, tailored to his age and reading requirements and included are activity books as well as reading and some sheets to be completed on rainy days like colouring and puzzles. It struck me how much he enjoyed the […]
Explore Norfolk With A “Good Journey”! I saw last week Norfolk has just become the first Good Journey County promoting car-free days out for residents and visitors to Norfolk. This reminded me of when I was growing up in Norfolk we didn’t have a car because my Mum didn’t drive. Though this wasn’t always the most convenient of things, it really didn’t hamper us as much as you might think. I fully believe that these days we’ve become so used […]
Tips for Helping Teens Struggling With Mental Health Issues As any adult can remember well, adolescence is a unique, formative, and particularly stressful time in our lives. Thanks to a combination of hormonal changes, brain development, unstable notions of identity, and academic pressure, teenagers are prone to mood swings that contribute to the “grumpy adolescent” stereotype. What’s more, teenagers of this day and age have more to cope with than many previous generations: from pandemic-related isolation to feeling overwhelmed by […]
