As regular readers of my blog will be aware, I am staying with my parents for a few months until the purchase of our first house completes. James is staying with his Mum while the girls are here with me, and he has joined us all down here for a week over Christmas & his …
On Monday we took the girls to meet Father Christmas, and much to Georgie’s approval, his grotto was located on a steam train! We headed to the Bodmin & Wenford Railway to catch one of their “Santa by Steam” trains, and we weren’t disappointed. Georgie was delighted to go for a train ride behind a …
This Christmas the lovely folk over at Halifax decided to share the love and “give people something extra” by sending out vouchers to allow people to buy an extra gift for someone deserving. I was delighted to be invited to take part in this campaign, as a tight budget has made gift buying a challenge …
Merry Christmas, everyone! As I write this post, the tree has been decorated, and the house has been covered with garlands and draped with gold chains. The presents are sitting beneath the tree, for us to unwrap while we relax in the living room after our gigantic Christmas dinner. I hope everybody is having a …
This year I thought the girls deserved an extra treat for Christmas, especially since we haven’t really splashed out excessively on presents for either their stockings or under the tree. So, I decided that I would put together all the little bits and pieces we have collected for Christmas and wrap them up so they …
It’s no secret that my favourite chocolate is the delicious milk chocolate from Hotel Chocolat. I adore their selector slabs, and James has to drag me in the opposite direction whenever we are within sight of the HC store in the city centre. I demand ask very nicely for Hotel Chocolat to be my edible treat each birthday and Christmas, and last year James even treated me to one of their advent calendars, which was delicious!
Homily is one lucky dog this year… We were sent a selection of Christmas Gifts from Pets at Home free of charge in order to preview their Christmas range, and Homily couldn’t believe her nose when she sniffed at the box that arrived! Stashed away inside our box we found a fun squeaky penguin (£2), a …
While I was on the hunt for the perfect stocking presents for the girls (see what I got Georgie & Lydia) I came across so many lovely ideas, that I thought I would share some of them with you. Here are a dozen stocking fillers that are £10 or under, suitable for babies & toddlers …
I’m not really keen on chocolate advent calendars for little kids, and so I find the increasing trend of toy advent calendars quite a fun idea. As well as the excitement of counting down to Christmas, your children get to build up a collection of something, which quite often ends up as a nice Christmas scene …
As I’ve mentioned once or twice already, our budget this Christmas is rather modest. While I think we’ve done quite well with what we’ve had to spend, I can’t help lusting over one or two things that are unfortunately out of reach right now! Here are a dozen gifts I would love to buy for …
