Tag: garden
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Who needs Marriage Counselling?
How to survive summer holidays Not suggesting we do, but I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. We both work from home and it does get fractious at times. Being school holidays, I’ve done as predicted and chucked money at it, not because I have a surplus of cash but with an only-child and a…
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The Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Once a teacher always a teacher? Not sure what possessed me, whether it’s because I won’t let her have a dog or she doesn’t have any siblings, but at Christmas I bought her a Live Butterfly Garden. In the box, you get the net, all the instructions plus a certificate to order your baby caterpillars when…
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Build-A-Bear Workshop, Covent Garden
We were invited to Build-A-Bear Workshop in Covent Garden for a tour on Friday. We’d heard good things about it. The night before Madame and I spent some time on YouTube checking it out and to say the least we were both very excited! We were warmly greeted by Jimmy at the store. He was…
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Ridiculous Mummy Purchases…
One of my neighbours is going to pop soon. I’ve offered her a load of Madame’s old stuff from car seats, Bumbos, baby swings, etc as my loft is bulging with baby stuff but she hasn’t taken me up on the offer but I totally understand why. When Madame was born I, too, bought everything…
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Butterfly World
We went to Butterfly World this morning near St. Albans as they were having an Open House and it was free! Frankly, we’ve never been before because when it opened last year I felt that the prices were extortionate. In fact, I emailed them about it but sadly never received a response: Dear sir/madam, My…