The Trick Of Holidaying With Teens. We’re Thinking Croatia, With Some Rafting…
Finding a family holiday which pleases the whole family seems to be intermittently tricky over the years. As a baby they pretty much just tag along with you, as long as you can squeeze a cot into your room. Then there’s the out-of-a-pushchair years, when you find yourself battling with them – not every holiday outing has to involve a ball pit, right? Then there’s the slightly older years when they’re competent...
The Single Biggest Parenting Lesson We All Need to Learn.
I wrote recently about taking a pretty joyous day off.And when I say a ‘day off’, I don’t meant a ‘don’t go to work, but do the laundry, dusting, grocery shopping and clean out the fridge’ kind of day off.No. Thanks to a One4All Gift card, I grabbed the chance of a real actual day off. Sorry to be a living cliche, but the first thing I did was go shoe shopping (yes, I may have stroked the pretties...
Spotted! Duvet Day bedset – £20 & perfect for the teen in your life!
Absolutely loving this duvet cover set I just spotted over at Dunelm. How perfect for a grey January?! It also hits a really nice design spot too – it’s old enough to not feel like a ‘kids’ duvet cover to a teen, but at the same time it’s not old and boring; it’s absolutely perfect for a teen girl’s bedroom (though my boys love a duvet day with the best of them, I suspect a girl would be...
Win an amazing £200 Voucher for New Balance! | #LittleStuff24
“Rudolph the red nosed reindeeeeeer…” Behind door number nineteen of the 2017 #LittleStuff24 is your chance to win an amazing £200 Voucher for New Balance! We’re HUGE fans of New Balance – for kids and adults alike. Founded in 1906, New Balance is an American footwear brand that makes sports shoes – and they’re known for bring a blend of performance and style. A air of New Balance shoes is never just...
Win an amazing £200 Nintendo Bundle – A New 2DS XL & Two Games! | #LittleStuff24
“God rest ye merry gentlemen…” Behind door number seventeen of the 2017 #LittleStuff24 is your chance to win a simply brilliant £200 Nintendo Bundle, including a new Nintendo 2DS XL, plus Mario Kart 7 and Miitopia! I know – this one had me squeaking too. I’m not sure where we’d be without the Nintendo hand held systems. Waa-a-a-y back when almost-19-yr-old No.1 son was 5, his cousin passed on to him a...
The Bamboo Slate – your paper drawing, on your computer!
I don’t know about you, but no matter how much I love my digital life, I am also never without ‘real’ pen and paper by my side. I just ‘need’ to use a real pen or pencil and jot notes – when I’m on the phone, when I suddenly have an idea, or remember That Thing that I keep forgetting to note down, and need to note it down NOW before it dribbles off again… I have a stack of old tatty scribbled through notebooks which I love, and a...