We were invited to a special day with Chicco yesterday in order to have a sneak peek at some of their new wares including the very new and very swish Urban pushchair! The ‘Urban’ is their new baby and it will be launched tomorrow at the Baby Show in London! It reminds me very much of an i candy if I’m honest only it’s a fraction of the price! At £349.99 I think we can safely say it’s a fraction […]

We watched the first ‘Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs’ for the first time when it was on television last weekend! We loved it and wanted more! We didn’t have to wait long though as we were very kindly invited to a private screening of the sequel this week ahead of its general release in the UK cinemas tomorrow! Not only did we get to be some of the first in the country to see the fabulous ‘Cloudy With A […]

‘Up and Down‘ is a sequel to the Oliver Jeffers penned ‘Lost and Found’, a story about a boy and his friend the penguin. In this newer story, a now much loved children’s classic, the penguin has ideas about flying the nest and home he shares with the boy. He wants to learn to fly and nothing is going to stop him! Will he fly a plane, parachute his way to flight freedom or run away and join the circus […]

Scooting is all the rage at the moment, you only have to look at all the children on their journey to and from school to see that! It’s an absolutely good thing that in this lazy nation of ours it has become the ‘cool’ thing to do as it may very well be ‘cool’ and fun of course but it is also exercise! Even in Florence’s nursery a lot of the children are scooting to school and leaving it by […]

As an actress myself I think it’s wholly important to take children to the theatre. To give them a live performance experience is giving them a slice of something so incredibly special it should be considered as important as being introduced to good literature. Unlike the television, which can be edited to within an inch, the theatre is an extension of the written word and to watch someone else’s expression of words on a script coming to life live and […]

I used to love Scooby-Doo when I was a child. I wasn’t a mega fan of cartoons but there were a few, Scooby was one of them, that I really did enjoy. Florence has been introduced to Scooby in the past but I think it might have been a little old for her. The style of cartoon that it has always been traditionally is quite sophisticated and although she would be old enough now I think, before she just wasn’t […]

Novelty food catches all children’s eyes and mine are no exception. I’m not adverse to dressing a crumpet up as a monkey or using cookie cutters to jazz up a sandwich and it always goes down well with my picky eaters! I like to give them home made food most of the time but I do let a few things slip through the net occasionally. A little bit of what you fancy every now and then isn’t bad as long […]

Florence says amazing things! The older she gets the more fabulous our conversations are and when she tells me she loves me, which she does all the time, it makes my heart swell, literally swell! I love everything she says from the constant ‘Mummy?’ with a questioning tone to the ‘I don’t know what I wanted to say’ when she’s run out of things to chat about but doesn’t want the conversation to end. She IS a chatterbox, just like […]

Reading, what a pleasure! Imagine if you couldn’t? How many doors would be closed to you and how much enjoyment, pure and simple enjoyment, would be missed out on? I love to read and I love my children to read too. We have many, many books in this house and we read together every single evening, just as my parents did with me. We also like to make up our own stories. Sometimes I will start them off and Florence […]

Italian restaurants are our favoured choice of venue when dining out as a family. Pizza and pasta is great for children and we of course like it too – who doesn’t? It’s just fabulous to dine as a family, something we rarely get to do at home due to a lack of dining table space, so going out for a meal is important to us. We simply require a friendly atmosphere, no pretentions, understanding of flying food with cutlery dropping […]