Shaun in the City: London - Little Hearts, Big Love

When we first heard about the Shaun in the City trail coming to London, shortly after completing our Book Bench challenge, we knew that this was a challenge we wanted to take on. 50 different Shaun the Sheep sculptures placed around central London to find. We were away on holiday hunting gold postboxes when the… Read More

Friday Fabulous Five #39

12/06/201516/01/2017

The Friday Fabulous Five is my regular feature where I share five of my favourite posts that I have read in the previous week – posts that have made me laugh, made me cry or made me think. Here are this week’s Friday Fabulous Five: Wry Mummy shares a brilliant take on the classic… Read More

The Friday Focus 12/06/15

12/06/201520/11/2015

I’ve lost my sparkle this week. It’s not been a bad week overall – there’s been plenty of happy moments in it – but one or two smaller negative moments have left more of an impression than perhaps they really should have done. It’s tiredness that has sapped the colour from the week and left… Read More

Parenting Pep Talk #1 – Northumberland Mam

11/06/201526/02/2016

Welcome to the first post in my new fortnightly series of guest posts! Parenting Pep Talk is all about encouraging other parents by sharing some of our happy moments, the advice that has worked for us and some positive words of encouragement. Today’s post comes from the lovely Kim who blogs over at Northumberland… Read More

Sea-themed crafts for preschoolers

10/06/201515/05/2017

We’ve been focusing on sea-themed crafts over the past week, creating a variety of fish and other sea creatures out of paper plates, plastic cups and bottles and toilet roll tubes. These crafts are perfect for preschoolers. Most of these have been quite easy to make, although one or two have required a little more… Read More