Free checks on ANY child car seat during Child Safety Week – and 5% off ANY car seat | Halfords discount code
Free car seat checks on ANY car – and 5% Halfords discount code if you need a new child’s car seat. When my hulking great 16yr old was a weeny boy, car seats were a completely different animal. By the time he started school at age 4, he and his friends were all just sitting on a booster cushion, which was usually the toddler car seat with the back removed. Don’t you suck your teeth in horror – we were doing the...
International Currency Exchange Rates Baffle Me.
We’re off to France next month, and as usual we’ll watch the £-€ rate wobble around for a while, wonder when to buy the Euros, then decide that actually by far the best thing to do is use our fee-free credit card (as recommended by the awesomeness that is Martin Lewis), and use whoever’s giving the best rate a week before we go for purchasing some useable cash. But we’ve just been looking into the possibilities...
Getting a car – when they refuse you finance.
Money Worries are something I think nearly all families face at some point in their lives. Sometimes it’s an unexpected bill that leaves things tight for a month. But sometimes it’s mind-numbing worry that keeps you awake at 3 in the morning, fighting the hot prickly feeling that steals across you over and over and over as you turn your problems around in your head, trying desperately to find a way out. Thankfully, for...
10 Things Killed By Technology (that I sort of miss…)
I love technology – we owe our entire lifestyle to modern technology, and we’re grateful for it every single day. The internet allows us the amazing flexibility of working from home – and I would never ever have considered home educating four children without the world wide web at my (and their) fingertips. Not just for their unbelievably busy gaming social lives, but for the knowledge that is right there for the...
Is your child keen on photography too? #MyKidsPhoto
Like all kids, for mine, right from toddlers there’s always been a fascination with taking their own photographs – either surprising us with they they get with their own child-friendly cameras, or often with a stolen use of my camera, phone or tablet. (Come on – how often have you picked up your tablet and found a stream of selfies or close ups of the dog on there?) Recently, we started actively doing some...
Toys For Girls. Yes, really.
After three boys, I was a pretty confident parent and was ready to roll on through the next few years with a measure of experienced comfort. *hollow laugh* How little I knew! Having a daughter was a WHOLE new ball game – but not the way you might typically expect. Yes there were pink gifts, pink clothes, an excess of soft toys and a ridiculous amount of soldiers and snipers sitting around having tea parties (this is what happens...