Week eleven seems to have been a week of people in the main. Days 67 to 73 look like this for us … Day Sixty Seven A selfie from me with my best fluffy friend, Betsy the Dog! Day Sixty Eight If I’m honest, I didn’t even take this. Louis took a selfie on my …
Project 365: Week 10
Days 60 to 66 of 2015 looked like this for us … Day Sixty Oh, what an evening we had on Sunday. The boys were playing upstairs and – although they are forbidden from jumping on the bed – they decided to have a little bounce, and also to throw in a few karate …
Review: Worm World by Interplay
The boys were really excited to receive Interplay’s Worm World to review last week. We received the kit first, and had to order and wait for the actual worms so it’s been a long few days for them. Every day after school I’ve been greeted with ‘Are they here yet?’ Well today, the answer was …
How to make rock bugs
Last week I took the boys down to a nearby country park after school. Due to the fact that I’m not at all organised they ended up getting muddy in their school uniforms but I’m pretty sure the recklessness of it all made the outing all the more fun. As we arrived it started to …
Our Pancake Day from Aldi
I’ve always made my own pancakes on Pancake Day, with varying degrees of success. I’ve bought those bottles containing the powdered mixture, just added milk and tried those. I’ve never bought ready made pancakes though until this year. I do my weekly shop at Aldi mostly and they always have special buys on depending on …
Project 365: Week 7
I’m late to the Project 365 party again and haven’t linked up to The Boy and Me’s blog, but I’m determined to keep plodding on with this project anyway. Here are days 39 to 45 of 2015. Day Thirty Nine We visited Legoland Discovery Centre during their Ninja Weekend and the boys had a great …
Making Magnetic Slime
I was browsing Pinterest when I came across someone who had made magnetic slime. I thought the boys would love to make their own slime, so I clicked through to find out what I needed to buy. Unfortunately, the site I landed on was an american one which called for something called Borax. Now we …
Our princess-free Frozen night
Rowan really loves Disney’s Frozen, but I find that much of the merchandise on sale is princess-based. While we’ve no aversion to Anna and Elsa, when I googled ‘Frozen parties’ I found a lot of photos of little girls in princess dresses, a lot of glitter and ice castles made with varying degrees of talent. …
Brown Spikes Hiccups: a story by Louis
Two friends, Brown Spike and Ghost of Fame, try to cure a case of the hiccups. Follow our story including sound effects from the brilliant Storytime Sounds app from Not on the High Street. Louis is seven, and thought up the story himself. I just wrote it down because he claimed to have tired hands from …
Bunny Jump: Game Review
After school today we tried out a game called Bunny Jump. We’ve been playing quite a lot of games lately, mostly after school or after Sunday dinner. I recently reviewed Chicken Charades from the same company as Bunny Jump, Universal Games. We loved that so when they offered to send this one I was really happy to …