Friends of PICU is a charity which is very close to our hearts as it helps support children on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Southampton General Hospital, where Jessica has been cared for several times following her heart surgeries. The annual family fun day is one of the events we try to attend to… Read More
I’m a big believer in the mantra that “there is no such thing as inappropriate weather, just inappropriate clothing” when it comes to getting out and about with my girls. So it was quite ironic really that I was the least appropriately dressed parent at the preschool day out to Beale Park and not at… Read More
I’ve spent most of this year being scared to look too far ahead. Knowing that another surgery was on the cards for Jessica, possibly before she was due to start school felt like a huge cloud hanging over my head. When we were told a few weeks ago that the cardiac team were happy with… Read More
Trips to the beach are few and far between for us as a family. We live well over an hour’s drive from the nearest one. It was therefore one of things I knew we had to do during our holiday at Butlins in Minehead. We nearly didn’t manage it though. There was so much to… Read More
Legoland’s our happy place, of that there is no doubt We’ve made some brilliant memories there from many fun days out We’ve certainly had our money’s worth; the preschool pass we’d recommend We’re quite sad our term-time days out there have now come to end. We get the Hill Train down to Miniland; I always… Read More
Cadbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age fort found just off the M5, near Tickenham in Somerset and was the perfect spot for us to break up our journey from Birmingham down to Minehead whilst on holiday last month. Whilst the girls both cope quite well with long car journeys – it’s always… Read More
Two little princesses with their (fairy) godmother in tow – the perfect combination for a fairytale adventure in an Enchanted Museum. Godmummy Katy had come up to spend the day with us at Chiltern Open Air Museum and there was certainly magic in the air. Who knew what we might encounter on our day’s adventure?… Read More