I have often talked about my love of the Polarn O. Pyret range. For anyone who loves fashion it is a must have brand but even if you’re not a follower of lovely clothes (how could you not be?) then this is still the brand for you because as well as being gorgeously on trend at all times while still keeping its signature look, they also provide excellent quality, functional clothes which last and last and last! Have I mentioned Jimmy […]
So, this time last week Florence wasn’t still screaming when she went into school but she was still very much unhappy at the prospect. She’d made a marked improvement by the end of last week but it still left me feeling very sad as I left her where I knew she didn’t really want to be. Fast forward one week and my girl is almost back to herself again, what a difference a week makes. She went in on Monday morning […]
This week we let our friends choose the theme for our Friday Night Treat Tea and they came up with the brilliant plan of an ‘under the sea’ tea. I had lots of ideas including some star fish ice cubes made with orange squash but because the weather was so glorious today and the forecast says it won’t last I decided to scale it back a touch and take a picnic tea to the park instead. So we didn’t have many […]
This evening we joined in with a massive Twitter party to celebrate the month of #Doctober. If you don’t know what that is (then you can’t be on Twitter as it trended between 4 and 6pm today) then it’s a new special name for the month in honour of DocMcStuffins! We all love Doc McStuffins in our house, the songs, the show and now the toys too! We actually already loved the toys if I’m honest but we love them […]
We love the Foodies Festival which we have visited quite a few times in summer months. They happen all over the country and we’ve been to both battersea park where they have ‘FEAST’ and when it has been held on Clapham Common. It’s a brilliant day out and the children love it. We like going with friends then the children all dance to the bands and get creative in one of the kitchen tents while the adults get a touch […]
My friend Ellie posted a funny video she’d found on YouTube to her Facebook page. It’s an acted clip of what it would be like if women catcalled men and it made me laugh. It got me wondering about the nature of ‘catcalling’ and how for some reason it is absolutely a thing that men do to women but not something, on the whole, that girls (the ones that I know at least) would partake in the other way around. […]
Last week we were invited to the press preview for the Autumn/Winter collection at Nutmeg. Nutmeg is the clothing brand sold in larger Morrisons supermarkets and it is absolutely excellent from every angle. Great designs, fabulously well made and even better, they all have a rather attractive price tag. Inexpensive but not scrimping on style at all! Key themes run through all the collections which are for babies, children and adults. I also loved the jewellery (the rose earrings and […]
Some say that boys and girls are the same and it’s how we treat them that determines their behaviour and personalities. I beg to differ. On my experience, and of course my opinion can only be based on that, boys and girls are very different indeed and it has absolutely nothing to do with nurture. I didn’t find out if I was having a boy or a girl either time I was pregnant. I instinctively knew what each of them […]
At the beginning of the week I was ready to take my little girl and run off into the distance with her. Upset at school with girls being mean and confidence being knocked has meant her flying start took a turn for the pooper and on Monday we had screaming hysterics like I have never seen before. It actually made me go a bit loony I think and I am more than sure now that the school, who I have […]
I’ve never done the whole monthly box thing. I assumed that they probably weren’t all that good or how can the companies providing them make any money. I have no knowledge of them so was prepared to be wrong but I’ve never thought about signing up to one because in my heart of hearts I thought they’d be a waste of money. However, when asked would I like to try out a new children’s fashion monthly or quarterly box in […]