Spotted! Simply Fab Childs Gardening Set
How brilliant is that? The bag is perfectly sized for small helpers to carry, and the price includes the blue trowel and fork set, the matching blue bucket, the gardening gloves – and hedgehog (HURRAY!) and tortoise plant markers. £16 from our rather awesome new find the Spotty Green Frog.
Cottage escapes – how to tailor your family holiday
Traditionally, British families have tended to travel abroad for their holidays. However, on-going economic conditions and a growing awareness of domestic alternatives have prompted many families to stay at home this year. As domestic tourism continues to grow in popularity, families are searching for the best British holidays at the best prices. Based upon these simple criteria, many families are looking no further than the hundreds...
FREE Food. Yes – we said FREE.
What are we going to DO with all those apples? Ah. Well… Obviously some will be for pies/crumble/ Worlds Best Apple Cakes EVER… But most of them will be meeting a far messier end…
Keris does the i’coo pluto review
I resisted this buggy for quite a while. I was using a backward facing buggy and loved being able to chat to Joe and keep an eye on him whenever he was eating (he does a lot of buggy-based snacking), but then Joe started kneeling up and looking forward over the back of the buggy and so I realised it was time. The first time we used the Pluto, I didn’t like it. It felt flimsy to me, I wasn’t sure if I’d managed to put...
Travelling with Children (Book review, not horror story. Honest).
I find booking family holidays incredibly stressful. In fact I always find myself considering not going rather than continuing with the stress of finding the perfect location, accommodation and date. And then when you actually set off… Catherine Cooper’s book – Travelling With Children: A Parent’s Guide – is an entertaining and practical guide to, well, travelling with children. The book will help you...
Sigg Bottles. Just a Brilliant childs Flask.
We LOVE Sigg bottles. And when I say ‘we’, I don’t just mean the grown ups round here. No, the four smaller-but-in-charge-really people LOVE Sigg bottles. We started off with this uber-cute little 0.3l bottle for Pink to take to pre-school. She LOVED it, and all the mums were oooh-ing at it in the crate. But as she headed towards proper school we found it was just too small to last all day for her, so now she has the...