When I was pregnant, I envisaged all the toys our baby would have. Wooden, organic, ergonomic and tastefully painted, they’d all be from Sweden or somewhere similarly stylish. Then I had the baby and we quickly realised that what babies are actually fond of is anything brightly coloured and made of plastic. Especially if it…
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A Sunday stroll around central London…
Read more…is what Eliza and I did at the weekend, but my husband – and 15,000 other people – ran 10k around the closed streets of the capital, in the 30° heat. Amazing stuff.
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We Review The Baby Mule Change Bag
Read moreWe Review The Baby Mule Change Bag: Are you looking a buy a Baby Mule change bag? We’ve been trying out the Baby Mule Pegasus change bag. Here’s how we go on, and our verdict on whether you should buy a Baby Mule change bag for you and your baby. The Baby Mule Change Bag:…
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Special delivery: what’s the best way to get to the hospital to have your baby
Read moreSo royal baby fever is really ramping up this week. Poor Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton and Prince William; getting to your due date and having everyone text, call and Facebook you to ask if you’ve had that baby yet is agony enough anyway, but it must be a million times more stressful…
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A bit of a blogging mini-break
Read moreSo I seem to have taken a bit of an unintentional blogging mini break. It’s due to, among other things, still waking up at 5/5.30am every day, finally making moving decisions and as a result, fielding armfuls of over-friendly estate agents, work, home, all the general stuff that goes on – all of which I want…
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A night in with Bombay Sapphire gin and Wimbledon
Read moreI’m a member of the Collective Bias Social Fabric Community. This post about Wimbledon and our night in with Bombay Sapphire gin cocktails has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias and its client. Gin, set and match with Bombay Sapphire…
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Crystal Palace Overground Festival 2013
Read moreForget Glastonbury; this weekend was the annual Crystal Palace Overground Festival (no Stones, slightly less mud and lots more Bugaboos). There had been good things going on all week, but Saturday was the big event in the park so we headed on over.