How To Make The Perfect Christmas Shopping List For Your Family Christmas is undoubtedly one of the best times of the year for family and friends to get together and celebrate. However, while Christmas is an extraordinary time of the year, it can also be a stressful time for some. As you are about to embark on your Christmas shopping list, make sure you are armed with all the information you need to make the perfect Christmas shopping list for […]
Wonderbly Books At Christmas! I wrote about our first taste of Wonderbly books a while back, how impressed we were with what’s far more than a personalised story book, and that we found so many fantastic elements to the gorgeous stories we read. We thoroughly recommended them as they are just so much more interesting than most personalised books which can often be a bit nothing when it comes to the actual content. I’ve found, over the years, when we […]
Tonie Starter Set For Christmas! One of the greatest things we can give our children are stories to fall asleep to. Read to them, read with them and teach then to read themselves and they have a whole new world opened up to them through story – reading and being read to is one of the greatest pleasures in life don’t you think? My Daddy is a wonderful story reader, when I was little he would read me books and […]
Orchard Toys At Christmas! We all know and love Orchard Toys right? If you’ve not heard of them then how? They are Norfolk local to me but literally everyone with children that I know, Norfolk based or not, are massive fans of the fun, yet educational games for little ones which prescribe just what a hidden veg spag bol does for nutritional dinners in the food stakes. Kids simply don’t know how good for them they are while they’re having […]
The Thursford Christmas Spectacular And Enchanted Journey Of Light 2021! All year round Thursford Steam Engine Museum is just that, a wonderful museum of steam engines which is well worth a visit but… Making like a caterpillar for 10 months of the year, come November, the butterfly of Thursford emerges from a chrysalis and it is now that she truly comes to full her full potential! If you’ve not seen the Thursford Christmas Spectacular before then you’ve missed out for […]
Counting Sheep Is So Last Century! How do you get to sleep? According to some philosophies the age old notion of counting sheep is said to date back to Medieval times when shepherds who used communal grazing land would have to keep track of their own sheep, this counting them all before bed each night. I think we’ve moved on a bit from there and I’m sure even shepherds have better methods to remedy when they find themselves awake at […]
Autumn Days Don’t Need To Make You SAD! “Autumn days when the grass is jewelled and the silk’s inside a chestnut shell” – We used to sing that song at first school and I loved it. It felt so happy and warm and full of joy and yet the weather was turning into anything but those things which even as a child had an affect on my mood. As the nights got longer and the days shorter, with sunlight hours […]
Bbright When It Comes To Your Boiler! I remember feeling a great sense of achievement when we bought our first home. After renting for years, with high London rents being paid directly into a land lord’s pocket, it felt like we’d almost won the lottery because mortgages, though not cheap, are often far lower than monthly rentals. Finally we’d saved enough to get on that ladder and start paying monthly payments which would be only benefitting to us (of course, […]
Celebrating 50 Years Of Learning Made Fun With Orchard Toys! Orchard Toys are celebrating 50 years of learning made fun and is it any wonder they have had SUCH longevity when they make games that children remember even when they’re much older and don’t really play them anymore. Having had two older ones and then a gap before two little ones, my big kids get to relive their favourite programmes (who doesn’t love playing the game of what you used […]
Vegetarian Chilli Pepper Pasta With Waveney Mill Spatziola! We love a pasta dish in this house, every single member (which is quite something with 6 of us) and though the boys and Posie will have it served simply with butter and cheese, the rest of us love a spicy or creamy dish. This one, which is vegetarian and delicious, hits the mark for us and it’s so easy to make we find ourselves turning to it over and over again […]
