Family fun, parenting, travel, technology… and more
What have you got planned for this half term? Outdoor adventures or indoor fun? (Let me disclose in advance- this is NOT a sponsored or paid for post!) Over past weeks I’ve been receiving emails about things we can get up to over the bank holiday weekend and the half term. Lots of free things, [...]
A couple of weeks ago we were sent the starter pack of Skylander Giants to review and try as a family as part of a family gaming challenge. As it’s PEGI 7 and not a kinect game I have been reluctant to introduce the Littlins to it. Instead Dadonthebrink has had many evenings playing with it. He [...]
I was browsing through my pictures of the past week for a Silent Sunday picture. Instead I came up with a plan… the changing of seasons always has that effect. Looking through the pictures brought back what utter fun we had this Easter holidays and made me realise just how much I love to travel. [...]
I can’t believe what I dumbo I can be! I try to protect my children- provide them age appropriate toys, limit television to the least violent and frightening things, only go onto safe Internet sites with them and so on. Yet, despite having our XBox for over a year now, with a handful of games, [...]
Under the Christmas tree, among the presents for Little Miss, was the Xbox Kinect game Disneyland Adventures. Our 5 year old is very much into the Disney princesses and fairies, so we hoped she would enjoy this game. …and Disneyland Adventures has not disappointed! After a frustrating initial half an hour or so of getting [...]
. We’ve had a fabulous summer, spending lots of time away staying with friends and family and actually getting some very hot weather and good tans (despite the generous amounts of sunscreen applied.) I have had so much to write about over the last weeks, but as you’ve seen (or not in this case) I’ve [...]
. Our old Whirlpool washing machine was on its last legs, having served us for over 7 years, coping with being overloaded, washing all sorts of children’s toys besides the almost daily load of a family and often extended family. I was overjoyed when I was offered an 8kg capacity brand new Hotpoint Style washing [...]
. Generally I love new technology and new gadget. However, if I hit the groove with something I need a bit of a push to change. My laptop is an almost 6 year old Toshiba Satellite Pro, that has been a real pro putting up with a lot of use and abuse over the past [...]
. We were sent a copy Rabbids by its publisher Ubisoft for review just after Christmas, when we bought our Xbox 360 and Kinect. In Rabbids Alive and Kicking: The Rabbids are back with a plan even more raving than usual: to invade players’ everyday lives! From their ever-so-secret underground base, they are drawing up [...]
. Over the past months I have expressed on here and different forums my hopes for a very serene labour and birth. I had a birth plan and real (secret) desire to end up giving birth at home, in my own little “bubble”. Part of my plan was to keep the labour and birth a [...]
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...AND to add to the challenge I have a grueling 11 week bootcamp leading up to the skydive- I have to loose 2 stone/ 18 kg/ 28 lb
