Last week I turned 40 and as it coincided with the girls’ school holiday this year, we decided to visit my parents in Wales for my birthday, and have a chilled out break with family. Since we are currently without wheels of our own, we took the train from New St – armed with a …
The last month or two have been… a lot. I’m not going to lie and say the year so far has been easy going at all, but at the beginning of spring I felt like things were looking up. My stress levels were going down and we were starting to sort out some of our …
During the summer break we took a trip up to Scotland for a family holiday, staying in a lovely Airbnb bungalow and using it as our base to enjoy the area. We were, on the whole, extremely lucky with the weather as it was often sunny – or at least mostly dry. During the week …
We have been an electric car family since we got our MG ZS back in 2020, and we really enjoyed that car as our starter EV. We had the ZS for two years before we traded it in for the MG4 when they launched it in the UK in September 2022. While we really enjoyed …
Regular readers of this blog will know that James and I have had at least one Norwich Terrier living with us in our house since before we were married. First there was Homily, who I loved dearly despite her (or because of her!) quirks, and then we got Gypsy – previously known as our ‘overlap …
Lydia is in her final year of primary school, which is in itself somewhat of a terrifying fact to me, and has taken part in the “world’s largest children’s choir” twice now. She has really enjoyed Young Voices from start to finish; singing practice with her friends after school, listening & learning the songs on …
It’s National Puzzle Day! Naturally, this is a very valid excuse to blog about my most recent jigsaw fun. James got me NINE Ravensburger puzzles for Christmas after a friend of his posted a special offer selling second hand puzzles to benefit his church. In addition to those, I picked up a couple of Ravensburger …
After lockdown ended I made the decision to sell my beloved but admittedly dusty Canon G7X camera as for everyday photography I was finding myself reaching out for my iPhone more & more often, especially once I upgraded to my present model which has 2x zoom and portrait mode. With the money from the sale …
A couple of weeks ago the four of us got up far too early for a Saturday morning and jumped in the car to head South to spend the day at BlogOn Kids. I’ve been helping out at the BlogOn events for years now and especially with the Toy Awards, which have been a huge …
We’ve had our MG ZS EV since October 2020 and, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has taken us almost a year to have a decent amount of time & travel experience with it to really understand how well it fits in with our ‘normal’ lifestyle. For the first few months we hardly used the …
