The sun is out, let’s have a picnic.

This month’s Tots 100 Center Parcs Challenge is all about picnics. We had family visiting from New Zealand over the Bank Holiday weekend, so took advantage of a break in the clouds to get out for a picnic at our local park. The thing about picnics is that they can be as simple or as [...]

When we went to Center Parcs Longleat

Center Parcs villa interior

A long time ago I was selected to be a Center Parcs Blogger. If you follow the blog you will see that we have been taking part in monthly various challenges since last year, from designing a Water Ride to planting some sunflower seeds. As part of the package, I got to take the DG [...]

{Indoor Play Bloghop} Indoor Camping

indoor camping

I often hear people talking about building memories, and I never really understood what they were on about, but used it as a convenient excuse whenever DH complained about the lack of housework that had been done. This is the story of my discovery of memory-building.

We enjoy camping, but The Girls and I are [...]

My Top Ten Potty Training Tips

top ten potty training tips

 

It feels like a thousand years since my youngest was trained, but she’s only just three. Which means that this time last year, I was ‘in the zone’. She received pants as a birthday present from her Granny and that was it: she insisted she never wear nappies again. I have to say [...]

How I’ve changed in 30 years: Special K flakeover

Thirty years ago things were very different for me: I was a cute little six year old with blond hair and blue eyes, an annoying younger brother and a mum who made birthday cakes in the shape of fire-engines. Life simply does not get better than that.

And then, after a night away from home, [...]

Local Flavour: Lavender House, Bromley

If you came to Bromley- and why wouldn’t you?- to visit me, you’d be in good company. Obviously the people that have come to visit me so far have been friends and bloggers and I have generally entertained them at home, but if you wanted to get a sense of the area, of why I [...]

Banana, Fudge and White Chocolate cake

banana and white chocolate loaf

There are so many bananas in our fruit bowl that have been going over before The Girls can be persuaded to eat them, so I put a call out on twitter for a banana cake recipe and Camilla from Fab Food 4 All sent me to her delicious Banana Cake recipe.

Obviously I made [...]