Collaborative Post When I think back to my childhood, I can still remember my Playhouse (or Wendy House as they were known when I was a child). I didn’t have a wooden one; I had a plastic red and yellow one I loved. I would forever be taking my dolls and teddies into it for … Read more
Now I’m sure if Hubby sees this post, he’ll be thinking ‘Phase 1? I thought we had finished the garden makeover??’ which to some degree we have but you know what we women are like, we always want ‘more’ so there will be a Phase 2, I’m just not sure when Phase 2 will take … Read more
I have never made secret of the fact that we are yet to find the love for our garden since we moved here over four and a half years ago. It doesn’t have a personality, it looks like a really boring kids playground. Don’t get me wrong here, I have no problem at all with … Read more
I’ve said it before and I shall say it again, our Beans thrive on being outdoors. It’s where they are happiest. All four Beans are very ‘spirited’ so they always seem to have a mass of excess energy they need to get out of their system and so they love it when the garden becomes … Read more
When it comes to gardening, I leave it all to Hubby. Don’t get me wrong, I love to see the garden looking nice but other than that, it’s his domain. The Beans (especially Little Bean) are starting to take a keen interest in it too, so I think it’s nice for them to have a … Read more
When I think of ‘solar’ lighting I often think of those lights that just kind of ‘glow’ as opposed to providing any light which is worthwhile but the myGarden Solar range are brilliant.
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
When we moved to our current house two and half years ago I knew that there would be one thing in particular that we would miss from our old house – our garden! Our old garden was south facing, it had a large patio area, a large wooden climbing frame, a big decking area to … Read more
The Mummy Matters family have spent a lovely afternoon with Nanny, Grandad and Auntie Emma at the new Dobbies Garden Centre in Peterborough. Throughout the morning we had batted around a few ideas of how we thought we would spend the afternoon and then I received a phone call from Nanny to say that she … Read more