• Tempur Mattress Review and a night away at Hawkwood House, Oxford

    April 21, 2016

    Last week we had the job of a Tempur Mattress review and a night away in Oxford, staying at the Hawkwood House Hotel which is just outside the city in super-pretty Iffley Village.  We are currently in the ‘demolition’ stage of all our building work at home (with both stuff and dust absolutely everywhere) so any…

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  • How to make easy breakfast muffins recipe (with children)

    April 20, 2016

    How To Make Easy Breakfast Muffins – A Recipe We’ve been cooking with children and making mini breakfast muffins on camera…all the ingredients for fun or a recipe for disaster?! Here’s our easy breakfast muffins recipe. Both came to mind when Schwartz asked us to make a ‘how to’ video of the two of us…

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  • Five things we’ve been up to lately

    April 19, 2016

    Hello! I seem to have somehow accidentally taken a blogging mini break. It seems like everything’s been really busy (although I couldn’t really say why) and there’s a lot of stuff going on (but nothing that’s huge or dramatic) and there is as always, no time (is there ever?), and life seems to be a drawn-out…

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  • The pox…or not the pox?

    April 14, 2016

    ‘Mummy, when am I getting chicken hox?’ – Eliza ‘Isn’t it funny that neither of them have had the pox? When’s it going to happen?’ Me to Alex, Alex to me, many times ‘Can you come and get Florence please, she’s covered in spots’ – Nursery, yesterday

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  • Spring greens and a touch of the pre-school blues

    April 8, 2016

    The days are long but the years are short, they always tell you about parenting – and oh boy, sometimes *those* days are really, really long – but what they don’t say is that you’ll blink once, maybe twice, and all of a sudden your tiny newborn baby will be going to school.

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  • Shhh! The secrets of the nursery day…

    April 7, 2016

    Just want to start out by saying I love my amazing children more than life itself, but sometimes having a break is great, isn’t it? Motherhood can be ever-so-slightly full-on when you’re ‘on’ from the crack of dawn – and throughout most of the night – and during the waking hours you’re everything, from a human…

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  • Five easy ways to update your wardrobe for spring

    April 6, 2016

    Stuck in a post-pregnancy style rut? It’s so easily done, isn’t it? Especially due to the day-to-day constraints of baby and toddler parenting (where anything too impractical or too nice immediately becomes a magnet for sticky hands, sippy cup leaks and colourful craft supplies).

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