When I was little my Mum and I went on lots of lovely holidays. I was very lucky and she worked extremely hard as a single Mum to make sure we had those experiences together. It gave me the holiday bug and taught me so much about life in other countries, with other cultures and beliefs. It gave me an education which I have never stopped subscribing to the school of. I’ve since passed on my holiday vibe to my […]
Jimmy isn’t particularly a pre made baby food fan and neither was Florence! It could have been a handy little time saver for me on occasions; I am totally the sort of Mum who would bung them a jar now and again but I have never really been able to on account of how they just refuse them! The only ones either of them have ever really eaten (and I’d still say not very frequently) are the fruit puree pouches. […]
Wauwaa is a new parenting website. How many times have you heard about a new one of those? Yes, yes, I know! There’s quite a few isn’t there but this one is really quite different. It’s a super easy to navigate around site with information, blogs and vlogs on pregnancy, birth and parenting in general as well as a shop selling discounted designer wear for children. The contributors are both experts and real parents with real problems, even bloggers like […]
A while back I was lucky enough to be invited to review Shrek The Musical in London’s West End! Florence was a little too young at the time as was only just two but she has remembered ever since that I didn’t take her with me! We have a game when we go on the tube where every time we see a production poster we shout out which one it is! Florence ALWAYS spots the Shrek ones! I was asked […]
Heard of Katsuma? Poppert? How about Diavlo? Well I hadn’t until this weekend but I had of course heard of Moshi Monsters (which they are by the way) as Florence has somehow had them on her radar for quite some time! Whenever she sees anything Moshi Monster related she shouts and gets excited – I may not get it but she sure does! They started, I am told, as a website where children could go in and look after a […]
We are avid theatre goers as you may well know. I write about our experiences of the stage on my blog often and I love that I get to take my children to see such a wide and varied amount of children’s theatre – we are very lucky as it’s an experience that is so wonderful for them. Our favourite theatre venue for children has to be Polka in Wimbledon (nowhere near where I live) because they consistently produce such […]
When I was pregnant with Florence I wasn’t even sure I WOULD breast feed let alone do it for as long as I did. It only became incredibly important to me once I realised I couldn’t do it easily and we were struggling. I felt like I was being told I couldn’t do something and I thought, you wanna bet?! I struggled through mastitis and cracked nipples for two weeks, finger feeding and expressing and feeling absolutely bloody awful. I […]
Last year we went to see Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas at the Lyric Hammersmith and we wrote just the other day how looking forward to going again this year we were! Today was the day and yet again we have come away absolutely bowled over with what a wonderful production it is! It is ridiculously clever and so beautifully done. It’s so perfect in fact that it’s almost as if the illustrations from this popular book have just danced off […]
I really enjoy using social media. As a blogger it is of course imperative and I have found being without my usual phone access (while mine is in for repair) quite annoying! I check Twitter and Facebook all the time as usually they are on my phone and with any lull in the day, moments when I am in a queue for example and it is my phone that I reach for to alleviate boredom. I love reading my friend’s […]
Perfection at Christmas, so what could that be? Mum’s up at 4, boy it makes her grumpy! She sings in the kitchen, it wakes us all up I turn back to a teen and shout ‘Do shurrrrup’! We all get out of bed, stockings ripped apart Big grins are on, forgotten the early start! We nibble on smoked salmon breakfasts, I’m not sure why? With bagels it’s tradition without it we would cry! It’s time to get dressed, […]
