One of the things I love most about spending time with my grandma is listening to her talk about times gone by. She talks about a real, unplugged childhood, about playing out from morning until night, about how busy the town markets used to be and how everyone would be so much more polite to …
Now that Squidge is a bit older and has well outgrown his baby sleeping bags, I thought it was high time he had some proper bedding. He’s almost two now so long gone are the days of feet-to-foot. He’s a proper wriggle bum in his cot and so anything I put on him soon gets …
Carbon Monoxide is a deadly gas that killed just under 400 people in 2015. As avid campers, we know a thing or two about keeping warm at night, zipped up under canvas. We’re careful, we use layers and hats as a preferable way of keeping warm. We do have a heater for particularly cold nights …
DIWAH is a new jewellery brand which specialises in semi-precious stones. Their online platform allows customers to design their own unique pieces of jewellery, from the links right down to the featured beads and stones. Each design is then handmade in the UK by one of their skilled jewellery design team members and posted out to it’s …
Louis is eight, and since he was four he has loved bats and everything to do with them. For his fifth birthday Louis asked for a bat detector. We had been on a local guided bat walk and he was hooked. We searched the internet for a bat detector suitable for a four year old …
The boys are very interested in life and death, with how things work and how things come to be. The imminent arrival of their baby brother has probably heightened their interest too, so I thought we could take a look at life cycles. I thought it best to start with something small. We opted for …
Alvin and his brothers are back on our screen and are a huge hit in our house. The boys watch these lovable furballs and their entertaining antics on TV usually, and now there’s a new DVD scheduled for release on 13th June in the UK. Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks: Summer of Sport is a collection …
One of the latest playground trends is Num Noms; collectible scented characters with scented shell lids! Take a Num, the outer, soft, squishy, hollow characters, and nestle it on top of a Nom, the inner, hard-shelled characters that are either motorised to scoot around, or filled with flavoured lip gloss. Race them against each other or …
Get ready for the mane event as Ponyville basks in the glow of the Summer Sun Celebration when My Little Pony: Princess Twilight Sparkle gallops on to DVD and Digital Download on 9th May. My Little Pony was one of my favourite toys when I was a little girl, and my friend Jemma and I …
More magical tales are set to enchant Beatrix Potter fans everywhere as Peter Rabbit and friends return in their fourth DVD collection, which was released by Abbey Home Media on Monday 2nd May. Peter Rabbit has been a firm family favourite for many, many years and even today he continues to entertain young children with …