Win a £200 experience for sharing your own wild #ImpossibleExperiences!
I love this idea from Into The Blue – what experience would you choose, if money and practicalities were no obstacle? No rules, no boundaries – just whatever your brain could dream up? I’ll be honest, at first I didn’t think big enough. And then I started to play with the idea, it became a family conversation over dinner and we got much MUCH more imaginative. I mean come on – time, money and the laws of...
Some Toys Just Keep On Giving – Playmobil Animal Families
As a parent you know that toys come and go – some have a teeny tiny window of appeal – maybe a week or so. Others seem to just go on. And on. And on. And you grow to love those ones. As a parent you come to understand and cherish the value in toys that last – that have play value beyond this particular 6mth stage in your child’s life. And as a wise old parent of 17 years I’ve come to understand that those...
Finally – it’s Installation Day of our Villager 12 Duo Woodburner Stove #HappyDay
So now that we had prepped the plasterboard wall to be safe for the woodburning stove we only had a few days to wait until Installation Day.Finally, bright and early the Low Carbon Energy Centre team were at the door, and all of a sudden, after years of waiting, the installation was happening. They had a quick look at the room, they approved all of our prep work, and headed off to start unloading their van. I think we were...
Replacing a gas fire with a woodburner on a plasterboard wall | DIY
So once we had an installation date for the woodburner, we knew we had some work to do. Because what we were replacing was this: That’s a gas fire with a fake surround, sitting in a plasterboard wall. No chimney breast was ever built on the extension, so it’s just a double layer of block, with plasterboard and then skimmed with plaster. And not in any way fireproof. Naturally behind a woodburner it gets a le-e-etle...
Brilliant Kids Room Storage Ideas spotted on Vertbaudet
Loving this simple storage idea I saw on Vertbaudet – you buy the shelves (in either taupe or white, so neutral and easy to fit into any room), and then pick the storage boxes to fit on them.Brilliant! There are a lot of options for storage solutions for different types of kids room that you can get ideas from. Most home experts recommend storemore.co.uk for smart storage option I know – they’re plain, simple and a...
Carpet Cleaning – is it worth it on an old grubby cream carpet? (before/after pictures to show you!)
13 years ago, we had an extension built. I was pregnant with baby no.3, we were running two businesses from home, and our tiny little 3-bed semi simply wasn’t big enough. And obviously it was cheaper to build more bedrooms than to move, so extend we did. The need for three new bedrooms rather determined how it looked – all that space underneath them simply became one very large living room. And we loved it instantly, even...