When the time comes to give your family bathroom, ensuite or cloakroom a makeover, one of the first things to consider is your colour scheme. Over the years, bathrooms have seen many colour trends which have come and gone. From the ghastly avocado bathroom suites of the 1970s (a delight we acquired when we bought Read More
I’ll be honest. When I started my no shopping challenge back in January, I didn’t actually think I’d make it this far. Over two months have now passed, and I’ve bought no new clothes … I’m amazed at myself! And what’s even more amazing is that apart from one little wobble, I’m not missing shopping Read More
Travelling with little ones can be stressful and daunting at first, but once you take the plunge and go somewhere, it becomes a lot easier and manageable. We’ve found that travelling with little ones has nothing to do with being ‘brave’, and everything to do with preparation and planning (yes, even us disorganised parents!) – Read More
Growing up with a mother who worked in a library, I guess it was inevitable that I would turn into a little bookworm. I’d go to the library on a Saturday, take out the maximum five books on my children’s card, and work my way through them at the speed of light. I went through Read More
I can’t believe that it’s been six years since we got married … in some ways it feels way longer because so much has happened since – a dog, two children, several new jobs – and in other ways it feels like it was yesterday. Every so often I think back to our big day Read More
Waking up on our first morning at the Eurocamp Holiday Green parc in the south of France, I felt a combination of excitement and nerves. I don’t know if it’s normal, but between the day we book a holiday and actually getting there, I worry that we didn’t make the right choice of location or Read More
Picture the scene. A hen party in Budapest … 11 women, 10 wearing groom-to-be masks, one dressed as Christina Aguilera, complete with two-tone wig and genie’s lamp, and a beer bike loaded with more alcohol than I naively thought a stag do of the same size would struggle to get through. Budapest is a city Read More
Ok, so I’ve been debating writing this post as it feels like putting it out there in the open is a full-on commitment. You see I’ve set myself a bit of a challenge as we start the new year. And when I say a bit of a challenge, it’s actually rather huge for me. Brace Read More
Over the past four years I’ve developed a love of children’s clothes, and looking for outfits in quirky and different designs. I was so worried when our eldest son was born that we’d be stuck buying dark colours with dinosaurs and tractors as the only choice of print. Not that there’s anything wrong with dinosaurs, Read More
I can’t quite believe it’s Christmas Eve. I feel as if I blinked in September and December appeared. How does that happen? Three months have just passed in a haze of work, school events and Christmas panic. I haven’t even had a chance to catch up with what we’ve been up to, so while I’ve Read More