Dear Daughter. Please, Be Always #LikeAGirl
Dear Bear You are eight now. Eight years old, and magnificent (I know, I know, but you’re my girl, and I’m allowed to say that. And it’s totally true). I love that you’re improbably kind to everyone and everything, and too funny for your own good, and smarter than anyone ever expects. I love that you always sing (usually the same song 633 times in a row, but hey, singing is singing). I love that you’re...
Enjoying some ‘Me Time’ with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Thanks Netflix!
On Wednesday I had the pleasure of whisking up to London for a couple of hours of indulgence, courtesy of Netflix. There was a hotel and fellow bloggers. Cocktails may have been on hand, and massage and nail beauty may have been involved. (on a side note, there is possibly nothing weirder than having a really really great back, neck & scalp massage while seated on a low stool in a room rammed full of strangers, all speaking really...
The Family Cookbook – Mother’s Day Gift Guide
I know, I know – it doesn’t sound terribly exciting. But actually, I LOVE this book. Really very much a lot. Like most people I have a collection of recipe books (and like most people I always seem to fall back on the same three), but my most-used recipe collection is a lever arch folder. In it I have loosely-organised sections (dinners, baking & Christmas pretty much covers it), and I keep in there the recipes I cut...
Win your family travel to France this year, courtesy of Brittany Ferries #WinATrip
We’re huge fans of Brittany Ferries – we’ve used them every year for the last few years, and never once have we been anything other than thrilled and excited; the ferry is never just the way of getting out of England, but rather it’s always part of the adventure. And we always choose the ferry over and above flying to get to where we’re going – with six of us, it’s just plain easier. We even...
WinATrip Day 3 – Shepherd’s Hut Family Holiday in Cornwall, anyone?
Hidden in the heart of the Cornish countryside, Little White Alice is a unique private complex offering a cornish Family Holiday with a difference – 5* Gold luxury, but sustainable holidays in beautifully furnished green cottages. It’s a place of wide open horizons and warm luxurious interiors; a place to embrace the rhythm and nature of the changing seasons throughout the whole year. How you do that is up to you – curl up...
Win a Family Adventure Holiday in Normandy – #WinATrip day two!
Day Two’s prize in the #WinATrip week is brought to you courtesy of Family Adventure Holidays – who have a properly fabulous selection of great family activity holidays in France. From the spectacular canoe descent down the Ardèche gorge to sunset fishing out of kayaks or sailing on the Med, the world famous Paris Disney resort or the pilgrim walk across the bay of Mont St. Michel, these are just a few of the great treats...