Blurb Best Photo Books Review | Perfect Grandparent Christmas Gift (2021)
Every year I create my in-laws an album of everything we’ve done during the year – they live nearly 200 miles away, and don’t see the children anywhere near as often as we’d like. So to replace all those Grandparenty-photos they don’t get to take by being out and about with us, the children choose all their favourites from the year to create a book for Gangy & Bumpa. One year we did a DVD for them… but really they simply...
Mandy Gurney’s Top Ten Tips to Help your Child Sleep Better
Good sleep habits can not only take the stress out of bedtime, but can also help to make it a special time for you and your child. With lights out leading to weekly tantrums from one in five (20%) children aged between three and six, most children’s sleep struggles can often be addressed with a simple yet practical solution. Recent research from Dream Lites*, the cuddly bedtime toys, reveals that the average three to six year old...
Netflix Stream Team – Staying In. It’s everything it’s cracked up to be.
As the nights draw in and the weather turns cold, we all naturally begin to hunker down and get that hibernation feeling. Staying in – it’s just not dull any more. Babysitters are expensive, a night out on top even more so. And staying in needn’t be dull! We have regular date nights, and rarely go further than the sofa. Close the curtains, put the youngest to bed and banish all older children up stairs; cook a nice...
Is it a bird? Is it a Plane, is it even a sleeping bag?…No, its a SLPY!
Oh my – this is something you’re going. to. LOVE. The SLPY, at first glance, is a sleeping bag; a sleeping bag with a few extra zips and flaps. But it is so much more. The SLPY is a wearable sleeping bag that looks great and keeps you warm. It comes in all kinds of crazy cool colours (Pink, Orange, White, Blue, Green and Black… I went for the brilliantly vibrant Orange). But what sets the SLPY apart from a normal...
Pet Insurance – our top tips on buying it.
I’ve spoken at length on Pet Insurance in the past – it’s a bit of a bug bear of mine (it’s an occupational hazard when you have a large and accident-prone uncoordinated dog who is damaged so often she thinks the vet’s is a social club…). But lots of people still ask me about buying it (possibly because I’m a bit of an expert at using it these days…), so I thought it might be handy to do...
Open your bills, people! Read them!
A very long time ago now, the husband and I were in a spot of financial bother. Neither of us earned very much, debts were managed rather than paid off… and then one of us lost our job… and so things began to spiral. Having debt and money worries is a sickeningly heavy weight that darkens every waking hour of the day. It’s an eternal thumbscrew, a metal lid on your brain that sits too tight and squeezes every thought. And it’s a...