When choosing a family holiday, it’s always a huge help to have recommendations on local attractions to help you pick the best destination. If you’re thinking of holidaying in the UK this year, this guest post is packed with suggestions for family fun in Norfolk. Enjoy! There is a lot to be said for UK staycations. They require far less planning, there is no need to remember your passport and, generally speaking, they are significantly less ...
Gift ideas to make Father’s Day personal & Giveaway
Welcome to a new giveaway, courtesy of the lovely people at Coconutgrass home design company. Father's Day is only a few weeks away - Sunday 19th June to be exact - and I've got a great prize up for grabs to help you with your gift shopping. One lucky winner will receive a £25 voucher code to spend on the Coconutgrass website, perfect for solving those Father's Day gift dilemmas in plenty of time for the big day. To give you some inspiration ...
Our day at RHS Malvern Spring Festival
On Sunday we visited the RHS Malvern Spring Festival, and had a brilliant family day out in the sunshine. The RHS Malvern Spring Festival takes place every year at the Three Counties Showground. I've been a few times now, and each year it just gets better. You can expect all the usual features of a flower show; floral marquee, show gardens, celebrity talks, workshops, food and drink, entertainment, and lots of plant stalls to tempt even the ...
Review: Geronimo Family Festival Harewood House
If you're a regular reader of the blog, you'll know that this year we're ambassadors for Geronimo Family Festival. After much excited anticipation over the last few weeks, we spent a day at Geronimo Leeds on the first day of the festival last weekend. And being a bank holiday weekend, obviously it poured down! We knew the day was already sold out, so to avoid the busiest time we tried to arrive for the gates opening at 10am. Unfortunately ...
Exploring the plant shop at Woodthorpe Grange Park
Local parks and green spaces are fantastic places to spend some outdoor time with the kids, and there are often hidden treasures to be found on-site. On our trips to local parks we’ve stumbled across all manner of things to explore, including willow tunnels, tree trails, wooden carvings and sensory gardens. Last week I came across the gardening equivalent of a child in a sweet shop: plants for sale! Woodthorpe Grange Park in Nottingham is ...
Giveaway: DC Super Hero Girls £100 Visa Gift Card
Superheroes are pretty popular in our house. Sam is seriously obsessed with The Flash; having always been a boy who runs rather than walks, I can see it's a match made in heaven. And Iron Man features quite heavily alongside Elsa and Sleeping Beauty in Lily's role play at the moment; he's currently helping blast an escape route from their icy prison on a daily basis! Superheroes really aren't just the realm of boys, and DC Entertainment's ...
Review & Giveaway: Blokpod lego storage solution
Welcome to a new review and giveaway, looking at a great storage solution for lego and toys with small pieces. We’ve been putting the Blokpod through it’s paces, and I’ve got a great giveaway for you too, with a Blokpod worth £34.99 up for grabs. Lego is probably the most played-with toy in our house. It’s also the one that causes the most mess and storage issues! Over the years we’ve tried various ways to keep our growing lego collection ...
15 Inspiring garden projects
Have you caught the gardening bug yet this year? With Spring well underway and National Gardening Week starting today, lots of us will be thinking about sprucing up the garden. Whether you want to just tidy things up a bit, introduce some new plants, or plan a big garden project, it's always really inspiring to take a look at what other people are up to. To help you with your garden plans for the year, some of the UK’s top home and ...
Review: ChattyFeet socks
Socks can be so boring, can’t they? A quick glance into the sock collection of each member of my family tells me one thing straight away: the kids have all the fun. My four year old’s socks are a riot of colour, pattern and characters, and my nine year old’s collection isn’t really any more restrained. Move onto my wardrobe, and while there is an element of colour to my socks, on the whole they are low-key, with very little to grab your ...
Introducing Num Noms & giveaway
Get ready for a new collectible toy craze: Num Noms have arrived! We’ve been having lots of fun reviewing these cute little characters, which have launched in the UK this week. And I’ve got a lovely giveaway for you too; one lucky winner will be among the first to try out this fab new toy, with a Deluxe Pack and two Mystery Packs worth £20.97 up for grabs. Num Noms are scented mini characters inspired by sweet foods and flavours, such ...