The Twitterverse

I avoided Twitter in the same way that I avoided Facebook when it started. I thought it would be one of those time-wasting activities that would end up frustrating me beyond all reason. I was right. I joined one day because I could no longer resist the temptation: I discovered friends I haven’t seen since [...]

Zapptastic: is the Quinny Zapp Xtra better than the Quinny Zapp Original?

The Zapp was brought to market as the smallest folded pushchair available. It’s what made me buy one. I liked the idea that you could put it in a bag and get on a plane with it. (In actual fact I’ve never been allowed to just walk it on the plane: I suspect I needed [...]

Our Zapp-tastic Adventure: What the Grannies thought of the Zapp Xtra

The Quinny Zapp Xtra is, as you will know if you are on Facebook friend, a permanent fixture in our lives. You could say that it’s revolutionised our lives: since I took delivery in October I have started reducing rather than expanding, the collection of pushchairs at DG Manor. It’s testament to the fact that [...]

Zapptastic challenge 2: Fun, fun, fun.

 As I was in the States when I was made a QC (that’s Quinnycaster to those not in the know) I was unaware that we had been challenged to provide funny, witty, original posts about the ‘Grand Opening’ of our Quinny Zapps and instead blundered in with jetlagged head, got the pushchair up, blogged [...]

Xtra, xtra! Read all about it!

I got the call whilst I was on the way to Philadelphia Zoo, a sentence which leads me to sound much more yummy than mummy, and if there’s one thing I’m not, it’s yummy. But I was in the car, on the first week of a family trip to America when I found out about [...]