Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The Doll’s House
Would you just LOOK at this! We all love a traditional wooden dolls house – but they can be so darned expensive. So lookety look what I just spotted over on ASDA to kick start this year’s Gift Guide! A £70 wooden dolls house – reduced to just £35! What a brilliant deal! And and AND… the furniture and dolls complete set to kit it out is reduced to just £12 too! Why are you still here? Go, now, buy! Traditional...
Floppy trousers and a stripy jumper. Does it get any better when you’re 5?
When you’re 5, and you’re having an At Home day… maybe doing a little face painting on unwilling emotionally bribed captives big brothers… then this is definitely the outfit of the Season. Softest cotton sweater (with a 10% swoosh of cashmere for that extra softy softness) – not too chunky and thick, perfect for layering, enough colour for interest and that quirky star over your shoulder for a touch of...
Garden Games Camouflage Wigwam Review
Kids just love tents and dens and hidey places, it’s just a fact of life. Many a happy hour were spent when I was a child constructing indoor dens, using the backs of chairs, blankets and cushions and then organising all my important things inside; teddies, colouring books, sweets etc.. My youngest son has inherited such behaviour from me, he LOVES setting up a den under his bed, behind the sofa, under a table so when Garden...
Review: Arthur Christmas. *smiles happily*
ANOTHER Christmas film? I know, right? Now we do LOVE our seasonal film viewing – but we’re picky, only adding the very best to our collection, and ignoring the growing dross pile as years go by. So when we were sent Arthur Christmas to review we settled down with the popcorn ‘en famille’, with cautious expectations. I’ll be honest – none of us really fancied it when it came out at the cinema last...
Review – Brilliant Unisex Winter Coat Ski Jacket
I LOVE this coat. It’s a ski jacket, really, but achingly practical as a school coat too. Packed FULL of quality details that make it worth every penny. Firstly – it’s not lined with a thick fleece or eiderdown padding, so it’s not a massively warm coat on its own. But I was happy with that – adding another fleece layer on a cold day isn’t a hardship, and for boys tearing around I find the thick...
London Duck Tours – Ducking Good!
So, just recently I took the 9yr old to London for a Daddy/Son bonding day out. I try and do this once a year with all my children; I think it’s an important thing to do. Finding out what makes them tick, watching their interests and finding common ground that we can take forward into the future. This can only help keep the lines of communication open as they hurtle headlong toward their awkward teenage years (besides, it’s fun,...