Spotted! Rather Brilliant Den Kit
Just how cool is this? I know three boys who wouldn’t be seen for HOURS once this was placed in their hot little hands. The kit includes a camo stick, great green groundsheet, the haversack, a mallet, 10m rope, 10 holdfast tent pegs, tent peg bag, tough tarpaulin and a handy mug. Oh – and comes complete with instructions on how to build the perfect den. If your children should need such a thing. Sadly, you can’t buy...
We Will Rock You. Oh, My, Yes, We Will.
Friday was NO. 1 son’s 12th birthday. 12 is a little bit tricky – what you want to do with your mates is probably not what your parents will let you do. Add a chronic illness to the general age trickiness, and we were a le-e-etle bit stumped. But then genius struck. And a short phone call later we had five great tickets for We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre in the West End. No.1 is a HUGE rock fan, loves his...
Hauck’s Dream’n Play Travel Cot
On receiving the travel cot it was already on to a winner for just being block colour in design and not having any generic disney images of winnie the pooh or a rubbish picture of a giraffe on it! Score! Why must all baby equipment have ‘stuff’ scrawled on it? Bleurgh! The pale pastel colours are sweet, although plane black would be perfection too be honest or even single primary colours. Now, in terms of putting the thing...
Carless Whispers – In Which Keris Is Banned From Cheese.
One thing we learned pretty quickly on this carless journey of ours is that it’s, well, impossible. We can’t manage without a car. Not all the time, that’s for sure. One of the first things I thought of after David’s car broke down was a naming ceremony we were due to go to. It was for the baby of two of our closest friends and we really didn’t want to miss it, but it was in a small Yorkshire village,...
The Grown Up ‘baby bag’ – The Storksak Jamie
The thing with Baby Changing Bags isn’t so much the design, these days – there are lots of them around, one to suit most people, and fewer and fewer are decorated with teddy bears. No, it’s more the fact that you only have a baby for a short period of time. But you have children for much MUCH longer. My children are now 11, 9, 7 and 3 – and I still find that a normal handbag doesn’t quite cut it. Of...