Lumie Bodyclock Iris bringing light- and aromatherapy to your bedroom. With the clock change has come the feeling that winter has arrived. There are fewer leaves on the ground than on the trees and the 6.30am alarm clock has started to bite. For as long as we have had a home together, DH and I have had Lumie lights by our bedsides: they made early morning commute wake-ups easier, they gently lit the 3am Feed with my darling girls, they have … [Read more...]
SPAR Home to Award Winning Wines
Growing up SPAR was the preserve of the corner shop: purveyor of sweets and treats when I was a teen, seller of late night Super Noodles when I was at Uni and the ideal place to stop in a pick up a bottle of spirits when heading out to a party whilst I was young, single and living it large in the City. I did not know that SPAR were also wine connoisseurs, experts, aficionados, indeed Spar is home to Award Winning Wines. They showed me the … [Read more...]
10 Things I learned at BlogCamp River Cottage
I was recently the guest of Tots100 at River Cottage in Devon, a cottage known across the land for it's beautiful homegrown locally sourced produce. Set in 100 acres of uneven and tricky land on a hill outside Axminster, the farm is accessed via a gloriously bumpy tractor ride, which wends it's way downhill depositing a slightly shaken version of yourself in front of an apple tree.From there we meandered down to a yurt tucked into a grassy … [Read more...]
Don’t check with Dr Google
"Whatever you do, don't check with Dr Google." I've read that advice online quite a lot. Yet, the last couple of times I have been to my local doctor with an issue outside of the ordinary, the first question I was asked by the practitioner if I had Googled my symptoms. I always have a quandary with anything medical. I don't want to be the person castigated on the evening news for calling 999 because I had a splinter I couldn't get out of my … [Read more...]
Summer holidays are a time of magic
Summer holidays are a time of magic. With any luck the unpredictable British Weather will smile for most of those long lazy days and the sun will shine. My childhood summers stretched endlessly in front of me, filled with possibilities. There were no summer holidays that you have in the UK: when you live on a Mediterranean island, you don't really need to go anywhere. Every day I would leave the house with friends and wander the "wilderness", … [Read more...]
Blending real and digital learning with Tiggly Apps
My children are not really the glued-to-the-iPad types. Which is good, because they don't have iPads. They were both given Hudls at Christmas and tend to use them on high days and holidays. When they do get used, I tend to stick to apps that have a educational bent to them, or apps recommended by sites such as the Good App Guide, so I know they are developed with kids rather than money-making as their priority. We are currently on the third … [Read more...]
Celebrating summer with The Boss
The weather is simply glorious, and being British I want to make the most of it for fear that it will not last, so am celebrating summer now. And though I admire the wizardry of Mummy Barrow, who put a cheesecake in a blender and called it a cocktail, it is categorically too warm for milk-based cocktails. Wouldn't you know, I got sent The Boss- the luxury all purpose blending machine that Mummy Barrow so raved about- so I thought I'd take her … [Read more...]
