One of our fave things to see is In The Night Garden Live! We’ve gone every year since Florence was a baby and even though she was probably a little bit old for it last summer Florence was super upset when I told her I was going with just Jimmy. So upset in fact that I simply HAD to take her with us and actually it kind of renewed her love for the show which she happily watches with her […]
Have you heard about the fabulous New Year New You Style Project? My good friends Katy and Alice have started it on their blogs as an initiative for us ALL to join in with! They say DOWN with frumpiness and UP with being glam! We are mummies and we don’t have to be mumsy about it anymore! I, like them, had probably lost my way a bit with my style since having babies and what they have done is to […]
I have brunch most days. I don’t have time for breakfast and the children like their lunch at about half eleven so I pick at what I’m making them and skip lunch. My pickings of delicious morsels like the crusts from Florence’s sandwiches or a stolen half of Jimmy’s bag of crisps make up my daily brunch! So… I’m not unfamiliar with the notion… However, the brunch I had today was about as big far cry from my brunch ala […]
This week, as I’ve de-cluttered and creatively found new ways of storing all the Christmas booty, I have finally decided that we have out grown our flat. This isn’t a problem, the plan was always to move, to buy a house once our family came along, the problem is where will we move to? When Jonny and I bought our flat in East London we had to move further out than we initially wanted in order to afford anywhere at […]
Back in October, Kuoni, the luxury holiday company, designed an antique style map which they displayed in the Bluewater Shopping Centre. It wasn’t just any old map but an interactive one which at the touch of a button would give a puff of aroma relating to the country chosen. Kuoni developed the map so that ten chosen destinations came complete with a fragrance to evoke sense memories of a place visited past or give a sensory taster of what might […]
You know when you get on to that conversation about childhood television? The one where you excitedly bring up all the things you enjoyed watching when you were little and it goes on and on with everyone shouting ‘Yeah, yeah, I remember ‘Pigeon Street’ and didn’t you just LOVE Bagpuss back in the day?’ And then the conversation digresses to lots of other childhood faves like the food we ate (I was rather partial to Angel Delight and does anyone […]
Before Christmas I was asked if I’d like to join in with a beauty challenge. Not just for me but for my husband too and I thought why not? Everyone likes to be a little glam in time for the festive parties and even though maybe not a lot of people know this, my husband is a bit of a girl when it comes to pampering and LOVES it! He probably has more products than even me (and I have […]
Before Christmas I was introduced to the world of CEWE Photobooks when I made my cousin a wonderful photobook of her wedding using their services! The photobook honestly came back like a magnificent professional album which I would expect if I had employed a professional photographer to come and record my wedding! The camera work was all by little old me but using their incredibly easy website I managed to make my novice snaps look like amazing shots to remember! […]
The festive period, for us, is VERY busy with celebrations because not only do we have Christmas but we have two birthdays as well! Florence was born on New Year’s Eve and Jonny celebrates his on the second of January so we don’t stop the partying till after then! Florence had her brilliant ‘I Can Cook’ party with all her friends a few days before Christmas which I wrote about here and even if she’d only enjoyed it half as much […]
I always call Jimmy a baby but as Florence pointed out recently, really and truly he’s a toddler now! He’s even reached the 20lb mark in weight which means the infant car seat he’s been in since birth is no longer required and a new size 1 car seat like his sisters had to be installed in the car instead! I realise he’s quite old to only be moving up now at 20 months but because he’s so slight, just […]
