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Well at least that’s what I tell the children!! I do have to laugh a little because when the children are being less than angelic with each other when playing in each others’ bedrooms I will hear either one of them say “when you’re in my bedroom then I am the boss” – oh how … Read more
We all love a bit of pampering from time to time don’t we, the trouble is we don’t always have time (or money) to go to a spa or salon to be pampered. That doesn’t mean you have to miss out altogether though. Saturday mornings are generally when I manage to grab an hour to … Read more
Unless you build your house yourself I think it’s pretty impossible to find a house which will have bedrooms of equal proportions so that each child gets exactly the same space. When we moved into our ‘new build’ house nearly four years ago the decision was quite simple, the two larger bedrooms would go to … Read more
I must admit when we bought out current home I thought “this is it, we have everything we need in this house” but then you move in and you live with it all for a while and you have more children, new furniture and suddenly it doesn’t feel so spacious anymore. One of our biggest … Read more
Long gone are the days when we could just go out and buy any old cheap pillow and be comfortable in bed. Sadly, as Hubby and I are preparing to say goodbye thirty-somethings, hello naughty forties, our bodies it would appear aren’t quite what they used to be. We have both been in a number … Read more
If there’s new stationery around, I want to know about it. It’s been my guilty pleasure since I was a child. I am a hoarder of stationery on a HUGE scale and so I was delighted to be sent a bundle of goodies from Smiggle.co.uk which are awash with bright, fun and funky colours. Being … Read more
We seem to have been quite lucky with the weather so far this summer (ok so perhaps not today as I write this post and it’s precipitating rather a lot outside of my window). The sun has been shining and any wet periods that we have had seem to clear up quite quickly and there’s … Read more
As a Karcher Clean Ambassador I am excited to be able to tell you about their latest campaign which launches on the back of research that reveals one in five Brits are ‘ashamed’ of where they live. That’s why throughout the summer of sport, Karcher have teamed up with Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell to … Read more
When you have young children, you can say goodbye to clean windows . . . Now we do pay for a window cleaner to come once a month and clean the outside but it always seems pretty futile given that Jelly Bean, Beanie Boy and even Little Bean will be doing the above demonstration to … Read more