I got an email last week offering me the chance to host my own Margarita party with Vitamix. I received it just as I had spent 24 hours awake looking after two ill small children and if I’d have had the Vitamix right there I’d have whipped up a cocktail to [...]
If you follow the blog you will know what an amazing time we had this summer in Arizona.
The people we exchanged with were super: a great fun-loving family who loved the outdoors. We had dinner with them twice and their children were kind enough to look after ours without being asked. My Girls still [...]
Record rainfalls in April and June have meant that our kettles have been put to good use already this year, so now could be a good time to think about investing in a new kettle.
In an article for The Guardian, Alexandra Topping explained that ‘More than twice the average rainfall hit the UK in April. [...]
Congratulations to Mrs Johnson Babies, chosen with the help of Random.org this morning, and who may inadvertantly have concussed herself on hearing the news. I think she’s pleased. This is what she said:
After the events of Saturday rendered us car-less we had to rethink our plans for the Bank Holiday weekend. After consultation with LBG, we elected to go swimming en famille on Sunday. First hurdle- local swimming baths (do people still call them that?) were closed so we rode the bus to Beckenham where- wouldn’t you [...]
LBG got an invitation recently for a birthday party two months hence. Whilst this is not uncommon in our parts-the soft-play facilities are booked up years in advance in the same way that wedding venues are- it still put the fear of God into me. I couldn’t help feeling, as I stood at the [...]
I came across Amanda Egan, better known as Mummy Misfit, on twitter. I can’t remember why now, but it made me follow her, and download her books to Kindle. I say her books- she’s working on her third- because she wrote two of themthem in her car whilst parked outside the front of [...]