5 Essential Tips for Reluctant Readers (or ‘how do I get my child to love reading and books?!’)
While some children devour every novel they can get their hands on, you’ve somehow found yourself with a child who pushes books away as though reading were a chore – or worse, a bore. Unless it’s on the screen in their Minecraft game or in an action-packed comic book, they don’t want to know. Sound familiar? Don’t fret – help is at hand; we’ve talked with HarperCollins, and they’ve given us some...
Is your pet guilty? #WayBeyondRepair
Have just spotted this competition over on Wayfair – nothing to do with me, but I love it and couldn’t help but share. All entrants need to do is submit a photo here of their pet with the furniture that they’ve destroyed #WayBeyondRepair for a chance to win a £500 gift card! Just look at the rogues gallery that’s already appearing! Sadly, I can’t enter – we lost our beloved Blue last winter, and...
Win 2 x £50 Photobox Vouchers, plus 5 Little Moments Photo Books | #Summerstuff
Day 5 of #SummerStuff fortnight, and today’s prize is actually a whole heap of prizes; two of you lucky people bag yourself a £50 Photobox voucher, and a further FIVE runners up will win a Little Moments Photo Book. We are HUGE fans of Photobox. Of course, like everyone, we’re big on photo-taking as a family. But being married to a professional photographer, we’re a bit more unusual perhaps in the fact that we often...
Win £120 Designer Tap & Shower Bath Tap Pack | #SummerStuff
Second prize in the #SummerStuff fortnight comes courtesy of Bathroom Takeaway, and is your chance to upgrade your bath to hotel-bathroom-status with the Suva Mono Basin Tap & Shower Bath Tap Pack Come on – who wouldn’t want that frankly gorgeous (and dead posh) Suva Mono Basin & Shower Bath Tap Pack in their bathroom? It’ll make you feel like you’re on a spa break every time you sit in the bath, right?...
If you want me, I’ll be in bed with Nora | The Nora Mattress from Wayfair.
Have you seen the new Nora Mattress from Wayfair.co.uk? It’s the all new, affordable premium foam mattress-in-a-box. And I’ll be honest. When they asked if we’d like to review it I didn’t leap up and down and say yes immediately. Even though our mattress is almost as old as our 11yr old daughter. Even though my husband has a deep-seated enmity with our ancient memory foam mattress topper and the way it...
Win a Stand Mixer with Wilko!
I’m absolutely in love with the beautiful new Copper kitchen range from Wilko.Have you seen it? I mean look – See what I mean?It’s gorgeous. And never mind the coffee pot, the saucepans, the utensils or the toaster. Oh no. Because we’re absolutely thrilled to be able to give away the tippety top of the range – their Stand Mixer.*swoons happily* I never really understood the stand mixer thing –...