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Our usual plan of action for New Year’s Day is to go for a lovely family walk but this year the heaven’s opened and it poured with rain all day long so we switched our plans around a little and spent New Year’s day at Ikea looking for new bedroom storage and bed solutions for … Read more
There is one aspect of Christmas that I look forward to every year and that’s our annual festive day out with our lovely friends MumtoC and family. This year MumtoC had spotted ‘A Fairytale Christmas at Doddington Hall‘ on the outskirts Of Lincoln. Online it looked beautiful and wasn’t expensive either. We paid £28.50 for … Read more
They say the best laid plans often go awry and in our case that is certainly true at the moment. Last weekend we had planned to take the Beans to Sea Life Birmingham for our last blogger trip of the year to see Santa. Unfortunately, we spent the day in hospital with a poorly Jelly … Read more
As a family we are no strangers to LP Creatives and their entertaining children’s shows so we were delighted when we were invited to see their latest offering at Stamford Corn Exchange. Unfortunately, our house has been plagued with illness since that evening (nothing to do with the show) so I’m only just getting around to … Read more
It’s hard to believe that our time as National Sea Life Centre Birmingham ambassadors is almost at an end, we’ve had lots of fun visiting over the past few months so when we visited a few weeks ago I took the time to notice the things that we enjoyed the most during our visits. The … Read more
On Monday evening the Beans and I were invited to Peterborough Cathedral after school to the unveiling of the new city centre Nativity scene by the Mayor of Peterborough, Cllr David Sanders.
We were recently invited to visit the IWM Duxford which is situated just south of Cambridge. Hubby has been there a few times, but I had only visited once a few years ago to a Battle Proms event (which was amazing). I had always planned on going back, but weeks turned into months, and months … Read more
Families are invited to The National Sea Life Centre Birmingham from 22nd to 31st October for a Spooky Seas themed treat which will have those little ones intrigued and entertained for hours on end. Feast your eyes on the attraction’s fascinating jelly fish species. In existence for over 650 million years, these intriguing characters move … Read more
As I write this post I am sitting in the passenger seat of my car listening to Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg. The car is in complete silence as the Beans have fallen asleep but I can still hear the music playing in my head. This afternoon our little family enjoyed a completely … Read more