Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The Doll’s House
Would you just LOOK at this! We all love a traditional wooden dolls house – but they can be so darned expensive. So lookety look what I just spotted over on ASDA to kick start this year’s Gift Guide! A £70 wooden dolls house – reduced to just £35! What a brilliant deal! And and AND… the furniture and dolls complete set to kit it out is reduced to just £12 too! Why are you still here? Go, now, buy! Traditional...
Garden Games Camouflage Wigwam Review
Kids just love tents and dens and hidey places, it’s just a fact of life. Many a happy hour were spent when I was a child constructing indoor dens, using the backs of chairs, blankets and cushions and then organising all my important things inside; teddies, colouring books, sweets etc.. My youngest son has inherited such behaviour from me, he LOVES setting up a den under his bed, behind the sofa, under a table so when Garden...
The Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Tollins 2, Dynamite Tales
The 8yr old LOVES the Tollins – and the new book is just as good as the first! Conn Iggulden is a bit of a hero of our family. I stumbled across his Emperor books in the library and was transfixed. Then came the Big Book for Boys – instant love from No.1 son. Then, as if half the family were not enough for him to have collected, he writes these really quite brilliant books for younger bigger readers. You know, the tricky...
The Bestest Christmas Gift guide – The Lego Minifigure Display Case. Oh yes.
For me, these are a le-e-e-tle bit pointless. I mean, the whole point of a Lego figure is to play with it, yes? Hmmm. Apparently no. Apparently, that comment is worthy of a most disdainful (and pitying) look, combined with a ve-e—ry pa-ti-en-t explanation for the dear and aged Mama who doesn’t Get It. Apparently the ONE thing that drives any Lego-er insane is never ever being able to find the right figure. And never being able to...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The Bippolo Seed & other lost stories from Dr Seuss
Did you know there’s a new volume of seven Dr Seuss stories out? Brand shiny new ones you’ve not read before? No, me either! *excited* But you need to be quick – They’re older stories, previously printed in magazines and never before in a book, and they are beyond the One Fish, Two Fish stage. I love them all, and I can’t possibly choose… “It’s hard to decide,” Said young Henry...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The Gruffalos Child Magnet Book
What IS it with children and magnets? Well, whatever the attraction (Attraction! Geddit?! Oh, I make myself larf…), this book has it in spades. The Gruffalo’s Child – almost as beloved in this house as The Gruffalo itself – And a heap of magnets to play with, creating your own scenes in the book; having the owl tell the fox off, the bird peck at the snake…. oh, sorry, that’s just our bossy 4yr old,...