Our Favourite Ways For A Summer Of Play from Dr Amanda Gummer
Leading child development and play expert, Dr Amanda Gummer advocates the introduction of play to areas outside of the playground, thanks to its proven impact on cognitive development. She comments ‘by disguising a lesson in play, children have fun as well as learn. They relax and become more open to talking about what they think and how they feel. This trick can be a useful tool for parents and teachers as it’s easier to properly...
Win A Brilliant Puffin & Penguin Bumper Bundle | Summer Reading #ByBook
So here we go with week two of A Summer Reading #ByBook! We’re really enjoying it so far, are you? And I’ve also been totally inspired – a few of the featured summer Reading titles *may* have fallen into my kindle when I wasn’t looking (Where My Heart Used To Beat, The Beach, The Night Manager (finally – yes, I’m probably the only grown up on the planet who’s never read a John Le Carré, but...
Cute fashion accessories I’m craving this summer
The sun’s out – and with it came the sundresses and strappy sandals. I’ve ambitiously looked at my dresses over the last few weeks, but even if I’ve slipped one on I’ve ended up reverting to rolled-up jeans by lunch time. Just now warm enough. But today – hooray – the sun is out, and set to stay. And of course, as soon as the flappy skirts make an appearance, you start needing new pretty...
Win Blue Kangaroo – and Come To School Too!
We LOVE Blue Kangaroo! The sweet and gentle books for pre-schoolers are just the perfect reassuring reads for story time; Lily and Blue Kangaroo are inseparable. Whatever Lily does, Blue Kangaroo does too – and when lily is worried (or gets something wrong) Blue Kangaroo is always there to make things right again. The warmth and love between Lily and Blue Kangaroo are familiar to every child (and every parent), and you...
Wedding Flip Flops, Madam? Why Yes. Yes Please.
I know, the wedding day is the day you get to pull out our ridiculously lovely, impossibly high heeled and foolishly impractical little bits of beauty for your feet. You slip your toes into them and feel instantly gorgeous, right? Of course. But fast forward a few hours, through the ceremony and the canapés and the standing and chatting and you start to feel just a little less so. You get tired of trying to stop your heels sinking...
Fabulous Duvet Slippers (yes really) under £5!
I know, I know. They’re duvet slippers and they’re ugly. They are. BUT. They’re duvets! For your FEET! Now I know for a fact that any of you fellow cold-feet-sufferers have just done a double take and oooh-ed excitedly. Oh yes. Because we cold-feet-sufferers know full well that in the quest for warmth, looks will just slide down the priority scale a little. I have a pair of these babies, and I can firmly assure you that they are...