If you’re a regular reader you may be aware that one of my favourite places in the whole wide world is Heaton Park. It is a lovely park, in fact the biggest park in Manchester and the largest Municipal park in Europe. I count myself very lucky to live so close to it. Heaton park […]
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My children love to help me in the kitchen and it makes me sad that during the week we are so rushed in the evening that it’s not possible. So at the weekend I always try to involve them in the process of making dinner, whether it’s shelling peas, washing salad or stirring the pasta […]
On Friday we were invited to the launch of the Big Imaginations Children’s Theatre Festival at Media City. It was a lovely event, full of fun activities for the children from dressing up to dancing and making music, as well as arts and crafts that included making colourful crowns and badges. The children loved it […]
The Very Lucky Winner of a Chic Range – Black with Red Dandelion Interior bag from Miracle Products is….. Vikki Douel Please email your address to [email protected] and I will pass on to the lovely folks at Miracle Products to get your amazing prize sent out! Miracle products offer a fantastic range of items for pregnancy, […]
The weather we have had recently is just perfect for al fresco dining so when moneysupermarket invited me to take part in their charcoal challenge I jumped at the chance to host a Summer BBQ! We were given £50 to show how creative we could be and throw a good old out door shindig for […]
My two year old daughter loves trains and Chuggington is one of her favourite TV series. You can regularly hear shouts of ‘Traintastic’ and ‘Ride the Rails’ coming from our lining room during TV time! (If those phases mean nothing to you then you don’t watch enough Chuggington!) So you can imagine how excited […]
Pregnancy is a magical time, but it can also be an expensive one! Not only do you want to start buying things for your new addition, you also have to think about how your body will change over the coming months! Those smart shift dresses and suit’s that make up your ‘work wardrobe’ won’t fit […]
The caped crusader has landed at one of our favourite places for a family day out, LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Manchester! Superhero. Crime-fighter. Master Builder. LEGO Batman™ is all of those and so much more! The North West’s own LEGOLAND has been taken over by The LEGO® Batman™ Movie Days from 10th February until 12th March, […]
Following on from the success of Plums Amazing Birthday and Mother’s Day competitions, they are running another fabulous seasonal competition, this time to celebrate Easter! They have some terrific prizes for the lucky winners, including… • A hardcover copy of “A Zeal of Zebras,” a colourful and humorous alphabet book featuring Woop’s whimsical designs; • A gourmet chocolate-making course for two, […]
As part of my recent lifestyle change and weight loss journey, I asked blogger, Neil Walsh for some tips for eating healthier when out and about with the children. The following post is a guest post written by him, do check out his blog for more tips for mums looking to lead healthier lives. Summer […]
As you know I was lucky enough to be chosen as a Butlin’s Ambassador last year, we had a lovely break at Skegness where my husband had holidayed with his family 20 years earlier, it brought back lots of happy memories for him and he loved watching our children enjoy exploring the same places he […]
Day 40 Sunday was a lazy family day but we popped out for a Sunday Stroll and got some shopping from the brand new Aldi opened round the corner, this is Daddy and Elizabeth with their backpacks full of shopping! Day 41 After work today I joined my lovely friends and fellow bloggers Pippa from […]