Make it Easier in 2026! I have four children. And as David is told in the film “Love Actually”, eight really is a lot of legs. It’s a lot of shoes on the end of those legs and lots of coats too. Clothing in general actually, if I don’t get at least two loads of washing on every single day then I am positively doomed. And with those eight legs, shoes, coats and clothes comes all the “stuff” belonging to […]
The Greenest Clean! As a Mum of four I do a lot of washing. Two loads a day (minimum) which means a considerable amount of time is spent loading the washing machine, hanging out wet washing, ironing (only the bits that really need it) and putting it all away again. While it isn’t my favourite job (I actually don’t mind the ironing, truth be told, as I get to watch TV while I do it), I am also aware that […]
Christmas Holidays 2025! It seemed to take ages to get here and then… In a flash… Gone! I love them being home for the school holidays and Christmas is that little bit extra special, it felt like it was going to be a long one this year too but of course, it felt like it wasn’t. We had much to celebrate, as always, with the run up and us having got together on Christmas Eve 25 years ago, then the […]
Dearest Florence – You Are Sixteen! Dearest Florence, Sixteen! How?! How has it been sixteen year’s since you were born?! That feels impossible. Both because I can’t remember, and couldn’t right away, what it was to not have you, but also, because it was just so close, it can’t possibly have been enough time to grow a sixteen year old?! You are just the same now as you always have been, even then on that first day, in those first […]
Autumn/Michelmas Term 2025! The first term of the year is done and as we head into the Christmas holidays it feels so strange that Posie has had her first full term at school already, and that Florence i about to begin serious GCSE stuff when we go back! Here’s our pictures from the first term of the academic year!
Bebeto Christmas 2025! Who says Christmas is the chocolate holiday?! “Friends”, ok, it’s “Friends”, the episode when Monika is trying to make recipes out of a chocolate substitute called “mochalate”. Well, turns out “mochalate” was all kinds of wrong, just as wrong as billing chocolate the confection of Christmas because actually, especially if you are Posie, sweeties come out top dog on the list of treats you’d like! However, traditionally there haven’t really been that many novelty sweets for the […]
Cinderella At St George’s Theatre Great Yarmouth! Modern, yet traditional all in one; a juxtaposition, but here we are, and panto is meant to be a bit bonkers so we have it sticking to form in Cinderella at The St George’s Theatre in Great Yarmouth for 2025! We were invited back for a second year running to see the pantomime offering at St George’s Theatre in Great Yarmouth, and for a second year running, and despite my deep reservations about […]
My First Panto – Rapunzel At The Garage Norwich! Having visited the My First series of productions hosted at The Garage for a number of years, we always look forward to the next offering. This year’s production of Rapunzel didn’t disappoint! Written and originally directed by the very talented Daniel Burgess, this version is a reworking of a show we have seen (and loved) before, but still just as gorgeously inviting for little ones! the theatre space, as always, is […]
BeWILDerwood Presents Christmas 2025! BeWILDerwood has opened the marshes for the festive period again, and while it’s a little different in terms of experience, to a regular BeWILDerwood adventure, it’s certainly just as magical as always! The Boggles and Twiggles who live at BeWILDerwood, and who make up the cast of characters beneath the pages of Tom Blofeld’s stories (TB grew up on this land and wrote the stories before building the park) are very present alongside Christmassy characters and […]
The Wroxham Barns Christmas Experience for 2025 is exceptionally magical and I don’t think you’d find anything else quite like it for the price tag in the area. Top marks all round for the most fun, festive experience for children who will feel like they are in actual Lapland with the most realistic Father Christmas who really has made us question if he might just possibly be… He might you know!
