I recently wrote about my favourite baby outfit ever which is a gorgeous ensemble from Polarn O.Pyret given to me by my old work colleagues when I was pregnant with Florence. She wore it and wore it and now Jimmy does too as it’s unisex; I still love it and it still looks great despite many, many washes! It sparked a love of PO.P clothes for me and we have continued to wear them ever since. From their socks (which stay on) and tights […]

In just under two weeks time we will be throwing Jimmy Buster Bumblebee his first ever birthday party and for the theme I have chosen for it to be a ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’! I have jars to put tea bags in and bowls to keep the loose tea leaves, wooden spoons are decorated to tell you what each tea is and I’ve been busily collecting china cups and saucers for mismatched retro cups of tea. My Mum is making […]

My friend Liz who writes ‘The Hart Of The Munchkin Patch‘ blog asked if she could write a little guest post for me as she has a fab new buggy and wanted to share how much she loves it a little bit further, sounds amazing, take a look!     The Graco Evo Mini …   Our first impressions!   Last week, we received a very exciting email at the Munchkin Patch. We have been selected by Graco to test their brand […]

This week has seen Mrs Thatcher’s ceremonial funeral and while I think it’s sad when anyone dies, leaving people who love them behind, I am not a fan of the Iron Lady. I am staunchly left wing and when I say Labour I mean old Labour. I vote red now because it’s the best, as the Lib Dems have thoroughly proven by getting into a blue bed, of the bunch but for me the 80’s left wing politics are where […]

I think whenever I’ve bought Soy sauce I’ve just gone for whatever is cheapest and not really thought too much about it. How different can it be right? Well, wrong actually! Yesterday Chinese chef Hannah Hayes explained to me why actually only the best ingredients should be used in Chinese cookery and also which ones to choose. You might think Chinese cooking sounds like a lot of hard work and not something you can re-create at home. In fact Chinese […]

For the past two years I have taken the brood to Lollibop, ‘the big bash for little people’ and a proper festival but of the pint sized (in attraction not in size) variety. It is exactly as it says, a full on festival with music and entertaining acts but everything is directed at the tiny ones. There’s a main stage where the big acts like Rastamouse and the Zingzillas have played in the past and all around it are stalls, […]

I mentioned in a previous post that I shall be embarking upon a training courses run by Nikon so that I can really and properly learn how to use my new Nikon D3200 camera. My pictures have been getting better (I think) on my own so with any luck they’ll be even better after this Friday when My course is running! My course is very specific to the type of camera I have but they run different ones so do have a look at their […]

On Sunday we decided we would take a trip into the forest and visit Thorndon Country Park in Essex and it’s famous Gruffalo trail. I don’t know if it’s really famous or not but amongst my friends (who mainly live in East London) it does seem to be, with Facebook photographs popping up right, left and centre of their children finding the wooden Gruffalo characters amongst the trees! We’ve been meaning to go for some time now but haven’t got round […]

My Mum has an Aldi within a ten minute walk from her house and she spends so much time in there that we joke it’s her Mecca! When it first opened she didn’t use it as much as she does now because the ranges weren’t all that extensive and I have to admit that I may have even turned my nose up slightly. Over time and she now can do about 90% of her shopping in there (I thought it […]

On Friday we took Le Donk to meet his people at the Bugaboo launch party for their new collaboration with style icon Andy Warhol! I still haven’t as yet ‘jazzed up for summer‘ so my poor Donkey very definitely looked a bit wintry compared to all the shiny new beautifully coloured ones! Still, his day will come. We WILL have a sunny enough day to jazz him up soon… It also made me feel like my Bee might be in need of […]