Around this time last year the children and I were invited to experience the who shebang at the Build-A-Bear Workshop! I wrote about what a fabulous time we had here and it really was wonderful, something Florence has talked about often! I think the whole process of choosing, giving the bear a heart, a sound, a smell even and finally creating it using the stuffing machine just was super good fun not to mention choosing an outfit! I remember that […]

My friend’s little girl, a friend of Florence’s ever since they were very small babies, is allergic to dairy products. She’s very good about it and always has been knowing that she can only eat food if it is ‘special’. She never moans and at only four you’d think she’d be entitled! Zhane has lots of yummy food because her Mummy is very clever and creative and also she sources dairy free products wherever she can. The thing is, it […]

I’ve written a lot about Warburtons Sandwich Thins over the last few months; it’s because I genuinely really like them and think they’re brilliant for children too. I was first introduced to them at a sandwich making experience and have never looked back, Even my husband says ‘Oh good, you bought the thin things’ when he sees them in the kitchen and to be honest, he doesn’t usually notice what food we have in just if there isn’t enough of […]

Being the mother of children who don’t particularly like to sleep it means that I don’t get a tremendous amount of slumber myself. When I was invited to the ‘Ultimate Sleep Party’ to celebrate Ibis Hotels launching a new style of bed with a promise of a room for the night afterwards I was almost giddy with excitement! To be honest I wouldn’t have cared if the bed had been the most uncomfortable in the world, I was being promised […]

Last night I had a rare night out in my old stomping ground of Shoreditch! The uber trendy bohemian hang out for East Londoners and these days it’s not even there to rival Camden, it has its own level of ‘cool’ in its very own right! The thing is… I was there in the beginning when Shoreditch was transforming from the industrial to the arty party it’s become and I really feel like I was one of the pioneers yet […]

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed how much it’s been raining this month? I got a VERY expensive pair of wellies for Christmas which my husband said I’d never wear and I’m proving him wrong by donning them every single day! I don’t mind the rain. From indoors. Sitting in my living room with an almighty downpour going on outside is often quite atmospheric and I even quite like it. The thing is, when the almighty down […]

I used to love Weebles when I was little! Do you remember them? They were the little egg shaped figures and as the advert said, they wobbled but they didn’t fall down! They kind of went off the radar for a few years and I’m not sure why because I always had loads of fun with mine! I had quite a few and a lovely red fire engine and green car for them to travel and wobble about in! A […]

The plethora of beauty products in my bathroom is possibly the bain of my husband’s life! ‘When are you going to use all this up?’ he frequently asks me and he very often states ‘You can’t possibly USE all of this’… Well actually I do! And so do YOU I think! Yes that’s right, I’ve caught my husband on more than one occasion with his fingers in my moisturiser jar or doloping great amounts of facial scrub into his paws […]

Florence and Jimmy have both been poorly today. We just couldn’t go out because at times they’ve both felt so rubbish that all they want to do is sleep. Infant paracetamol is a wonderful thing though (I remember someone saying to me that when you have children it becomes your best friend – SO true!) and when they’re in the middle of a dose they have actually both been quite energetic. Florence didn’t want to go out anywhere (this is […]

Something very exciting is happening next week. I’m taking Florence to see ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘ in the West End! It’s not her first West End Musical as I took her to see ‘Wicked’ last summer and she loved it! She might be little but she sure knows her theatre and I’m so pleased that she enjoys it just as much as me! The reason I’m so excited about ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ is because it was one of […]