Pin It Right Here, Right Now-April 2017 Sunday  30th April Ah, so this was meant to a monthly thing wasn’t it? Last time I wrote a post for Right Here, Right Now was back in January and I’ve managed to miss two months, totally unintentional.It’s been a busy couple of months a s I’m about to get […]

Pin It The Liebster Award Tattooed Mummy tagged me in The Liebster Award, it made me feel very nostalgic.The Liebster Award was one of the first internet awards I got, as it’s given to other bloggers by bloggers to help with their exposure on the internet.Back when I first started blogging 8 and 1/2 years ago, the […]

Pin It Friday 11th November Saturday the 29th of Saturday 2016, Halloween weekend saw us heading off to Ashton Court, Bristol for a Gung ho! Spooktacular Run.The 5k run, which incorporates inflatable obstacle course*.Gung Ho! Bristol was split into different time sessions depending on age, kids going around the 5K course first as it gets […]

Pin It Last Friday I attended the MAD Blog Awards 2016 as a finalist for Outstanding Contribution.After the delay of getting into London due to the heavy rain rainfall the day before, I arrived just before lunch time.I met up with Jaime of Oliver’s Madhouse  in Kensington for a very much appreciated bowl of chips and a gin and tonic […]

Pin It Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying was purchased by me, after it had been in my Amazon basket for sometime. I bought it in hope that it would help me as I am a hoarder and over the past month I’ve discovered I’m not alone, in fact I’m not as bad as […]

Pin It Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying was purchased by me, after it had been in my Amazon basket for sometime. I bought it in hope that it would help me as I am a hoarder and over the past month I’ve discovered I’m not alone, in fact I’m not as bad as […]

Pin It Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see the Horrible Histories children’s television program live? The Birmingham Theatre company have done just that, bringing the popular BBC children’s history program to the stage.The Wyvern Theatre ran two Horrible Histories Live On Stage productions over last week, Groovy Greeks and Incredible […]

Pin It I was very lucky to get an invite to the first Hogwart’s In Snow a couple of years ago at The Making Of Harry Potter studio tour.It was like all my Harry Potter Christmas’s had come all at once.So when a press release came through about this year’s Christmas treat, I nearly burst […]

Pin It We went off to Weston-Super-Mare a couple of weeks ago, as Mouse has to complete a list of things to do for the Summer holidays as part of her school homework.I thought jumping the waves in the sea and catching a crab would be easily done. /wp-content/uploads/2015/08/VID_23790611_224529.mp4   The kids loved getting wet but […]

Pin It As a kid I loved watching puppet shows like The Muppets and Sesame Street, the colourful and lovable characters that made sense of everyday situations about the world we live in, told in an entertaining way along with a few songs and cartoon graphics to empathise a point.Imagine that you could watch a […]

Pin It Back in the day, when I first started blogging I used to just post a very long post once a month about we’ve been up for the benefit of my friends and family who I didn’t see that often.I wasn’t very good at it and after a while personal blogging stopped.T from Mummy […]

Pin It Last Sunday I spent 4 hours in the company of lots of parent bloggers, life stylers and young fashionistas for a bit of crafting.Hosted by the lovely ladies from The Crafty Hen who run craft party workshops and joined by Laura Ashley  crafts reps, it was a crafters idea of heaven. Thanks to Joe Blogs network for […]

Pin It So on Thursday evening we made an unscheduled visit to Bath to buy Kip’s best mate a birthday present.As we arrived too late to shop in American Dream Comics, we took a walk around Milsom Street as I wanted to pop into the Lush cosmetics store, which had moved location back in December.We […]

Pin It Last Sunday we went to Bristol to watch and film a #thisgirlcan flash mob.Only we missed it after faffing about at home, getting there half an hour late.Whenever I go to Bristol with the kids, we always hang out by the harbourside, on the M-Shed side.Having already crossed Pero’s bridge, where they recently […]

Pin It We’re just a couple of weeks away from celebrating the first day of Spring in the U.K.The clocks go forward and we look ahead to longer daylight hours, welcoming new life in nature and eating lighter meals.As part of the BritMum’s Carnival I’ve put together A Spring In My Step post, showcasing all the […]

Pin It I never did get around to sending a Christmas message to my readers, bad I know.I do hope you did have a good one.Something I don’t do often, is record more about our lives.Lots of reasons and I feel I need to get over myself and just do it.After all that is what […]

Pin It     Last week was taken up with me still painting my room and starting to get further along with the patio, which now is going to be decking.I’m finding the day goes by so quickly with a 3 hour chunk being taken out of my day due to the school run. It’s […]

Pin It             Today we visited the local farmer’s market that comes to town once a month.We haven’t been since we moved into the new house so it was nice to pay a visit as this time they had extended it to a food and drink festival.It was ok, not […]

Pin It When I was pregnant with Kip I was fully aware about food allergies in children as I had eczema as a child there was a ‘risk’ that he would get it too and I should avoid eating peanuts. So I did for a whole 8 months until I had two meals at home and at a […]