English Heritage membership!
Talk about the gift that keeps on giving! We’ve never made a secret of how much we love English heritage, particularly for visiting as a family. We bought life membership some years ago now, and cannot recommend it enough! It covers you for CADW properties in Wales too, and memberships start from £39 yearly, but for only £86 per annum, you can get 2 adults and up to 6 children go free in any English heritage site throughout...
Tips to Make Your Christmas Shopping Easier
Make Christmas Shopping Easy It never gets any easier. Each year, we try to squeeze in Christmas shopping, making our way through the busting crowds at late night shopping. After a long day, we often finally get back home to find we’ve forgotten something. And, we always say next year we’ll start earlier. But if done right, Christmas shopping doesn’t have to be a terrible headache. Here’s our step-by-step guide to making your...
London’s Original Open-Top Bus Tour – Review #GreatDaysOut
One of the things I’ve always wanted to do is take a bus tour – we’ve done them in lots of other cities and always found them a brilliant way to get an overview of a city that we don’t know well. So when the Original London Bus Tour got in touch and asked if we’d like to give London’s Original open-top bus tour a whirl I was obviously more than happy to say yes! Providing more than just a great way...
Quick! Billabong Balance Hoodie under £25 at Blackleaf.com! Christmas Gift Guide
Anyone who says looks don’t matter is the last person who should be giving you style lessons. But if keeping things cool and casual is how you want to play it, by all means the Balance Hooded Fleece Zip-Up is for you. The Balance Hooded Fleece Zip-Up is made from a premium speckled fleece that offers ultra soft comfort and lightweight warmth. Colourblocking and raglan sleeve blend both surf and street style. Includes a pouch pocket....
Have you got an old-fashioned Cassette player for your child? Pre-Christmas Shopping
Any child of the 70’s or 80’s will remember these… Oh the hours I’d spend, recording songs off the radio, wearing out tapes as I hit pause/play/pause/play line by line so that I could write down all the lyrics to Rick Astley. I have a couple of precious tapes of my sister and I singing as she practiced her guitar, and the mix tapes… Oh, the memories that are spooled onto those mix tapes! But...
Dishwashers. Definitely a must-have for my Christmas, but will a cheap one do? | Pre-Christmas Shopping
Back in September my dishwasher broke. It had been on its last legs for a while, and finally our lovely dishwasher-man shook his head sadly and said “its not good. It’s just not worth me fixing it this time – it’d be cheaper for you to buy another”. Oh woe. Being a 70’s child, I hadn’t had the luxury of a dishwasher growing up, and I was a little aghast after dinner that night that my four...