Zapptastic: in which I bid farewell to my career as a Quinnycaster

Bear-well lovely Quinnycasters!

Yes, you read right. My six months is up, over, finished. As with the 300+ days that Dimples has been in our lives, we have no idea where the time has gone. Wasn’t it yesterday that we were assembling our new Quinny Zapp, bleary eyed from jetlag and [...]

A Zapp around the world or how I avoided filing my Tax Return today.

January is often a bleak time.There’s the bad weather, the frequent illness, the trying to balance the books after Christmas and of course the Tax Return. I should have been doing mine today. Instead DH and I got a bit carried away with a new shipment of Duplo which, incidentally, fits perfectly into the [...]

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 [...]

The list is long, but distinguished: my life in pushchairs.

The Zapp Xtra has been taking up space in our hallway for a month. I say ‘taking up space’ but it’s hardly enormous and, when parked next to the Nipper Double, it’s barely noticeable, and after a mere month and many (many) miles along pavements, roads and beaches, I’m not entirely sure I remember life [...]

You’ve got to love the British Weather

We escaped to the British Seaside to escape the lack-of-bathroom. I give you a perfect study in contradictory British weather.

  Saturday: an ice-cream on the seafront. The Pocket Dictator refused to wear a coat but needed the hat to protect her hair from the wind.  Sunday: twilight, buffeted by the wind and the [...]