Are You Armed With A Humidifier Yet?
Sep30

Are You Armed With A Humidifier Yet?

Katy has been badgering me into getting a humidifier for a while. Every time one of the boys gets a cold I can guarantee I’ll get a mail with a link to a humidifier in it, saying ‘buy buy buy!’. But I’ve always resisted, not really seeing the need to go and splash out on one just for the few times a year it might be handy. But then Bionaire asked if we’d like to review their Compact Ultrasonic Humidifier...

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Spotted! Paperless Post for paperless Christmas cards
Sep24

Spotted! Paperless Post for paperless Christmas cards

Oh. My. Word. You are just going to LOVE this, I promise. Promise, promise, promise. It’s a well known phenomenon that all of us just love pretty stationery, yes? Yes. Of course we do. So how about the ability to pick really very VERY pretty paper and cards, make them utterly gorgeous, customise them completely, send them out in gorgeous envelopes – but all online and entirely paperless? Yes – all that, and...

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Massage in baggy undies.
Sep22

Massage in baggy undies.

A couple of weeks ago, I went for a massage. I haven’t had one for a while. I’ve never been much of a massage person, but after I had my first child (6 years ago), I was desperate for one. It was (apart from the baby) pretty much all I could think about. I felt beaten up and out of touch with my body (having mostly seen it as a receptacle for someone else’s body for nine months). When Harry was about two weeks old, I found a...

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Sunday Recipe – Worlds Best Apple Cakes
Sep13

Sunday Recipe – Worlds Best Apple Cakes

I thought I’d better finally share, as I’ve been asked to so often, and now they’re fighting over the cyber-cakes on Twitter I thought it time they made their own. And as a bonus, it’s a recipe so easy you can make it with a 3 yr old. You know how you have a zillion recipe books, but only a handful you constantly return to? Well, this is a recipe from one of mine – it’s the 1980 version of Readers...

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MP3 player for children – step up the SanDisk Sansa Clip+
Sep08

MP3 player for children – step up the SanDisk Sansa Clip+

My boys have all had MP3 players for a year or two now. They love them – and we love that they love them. But we were initially concerned about spending a lot of money on something they’d no doubt lose or break inside 3 weeks, so we bought the cheapest we could find (£7 max). When they worked, they were ace, but all too frequently they freeze or crash, or batteries need replacing, or the music needs updating as they...

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