Category: Blogging

  • Win a Plus Plus Mini Basic 1200 Interactive Building Kit from Toyella

    I hear you ask ‘What is it?’ Plus Plus are an a building kit from Denmark with a difference.  The simplicity of the design,  two plus symbols stuck together,  provide endless opportunities for creativity. I was thrilled when Toyella resurfaced on Twitter and we reconnected. ‘More time has allowed me to break out of my…

  • Win a £50 Online Voucher from Polarn O. Pyret

    I was out the other day with some friends and someone asked ‘is that a Polarn O. Pyret?’ when referring to my daughter’s tunic.  Coincidentally it wasn’t but I replied ‘No, but I do love their stuff!’ Polarn O. Pyret, even though I can’t pronounce it, has to be one of my all time favourite…

  • Things to do at Thorpe Park if you’re 5

    ‘Mummy, you know that place we went to on the weekend, I call it the best place ever!’ M age 5 Thorpe Park was originally marketed for 16- 24 year olds, so when I first invited myself along, I was a bit worried that there would not be enough for my 5 year old to…

  • I wasn’t allowed to wear white as a child and now I can see why?

    What mother in her right mind would let her daughter dress in white on Easter Sunday? Hmmm….let’s think about that; a day where kids can eat chocolate from the time they get up to the time they go to bed, coupled with chocolaty fingers and a very bad habit of using her clothes instead of…

  • Ask Italian has had a facelift and a new menu

    If you’re on a diet I wouldn’t recommend going to Ask Italian for lunch.  It’s not that the food is exceptionally fattening, but I couldn’t stop eating and the Prosecco Brut was flowing. We were invited down to try out the new menu.  Award winnning Italian Chef, Theo Randall, has been brought in as a…