I’ve written about my battles with sleep a lot on here and also work with brands more now that I make a living out of blogging, so this is right up my street! I’ve joined Sealy’s Deeper Sleeper panel, the point of which is to test out different things said to help with the important …
Month: April 2016
With Dylan and Xander both being more than a little obsessed with comic book characters, I often wonder what my special powers would be if I were a superhero. Amazingly, it turns out, I may actually already have a couple of them already. As part of its new campaign, Vileda is giving people a chance to …
We took Amelie to be weighed today. Big news, I know. Thanks to the sad demise of our local Sure Start Centre, we have to take her to the library which is otherwise closed on Wednesdays. Admittedly, it’s a good way of stopping the Tories closing down that too, but it’s a strange experience going into …
Since I went freelance, I’ve managed to make enough money to cover the bills every month, but have to admit that we haven’t saved much. With that in mind, we’ve been looking at things we can cut down on. There’s much that can be done to boost the bank balance. Here are seven things you can cut …
Disclosure: this is a paid collaboration with Persil. One of Kate’s favourite responses when I reminisce about 1980s TV shows that she can’t remember is “I was probably up a tree.” This nicely articulates a concern I have about Dylan and Xander. I think it must be harder being a kid now than it was …
Amelie is now five months old and, after some early uncertainty as to whether she was more than just a novelty addition to the house, the boys seem to have accepted that she’s here to stay! We were worried about sibling rivalry creeping in, particularly with Xander who now has the potentially tough role of …
Last week, I caught Dylan and Xander subjecting Amelie to an immensely irritating episode of Team Umizoomi – entitled ‘Meatball Madness’ – for the umpteenth time. It seems though that, far from just serving to annoy me with its blatant disregard for physics, economics and characters who just can’t hit any kind of note, the unfathomably …
On Saturday, Dylan I found ourselves off on an adventure that we knew very little about! Bleary-eyed but excited about the day ahead and with a golden ticket in our possession, we boarded an early train to West Sussex for the Dads Play Date. The event was organised by Paladone, a leading gift supplies company …
I was surprised to read some recent research which discovered that almost half of adults confessed that the furthest they could run is half a mile. Despite working from home, having three children and asthma for good measure, I manage to keep fit so anybody can! If that’s not motivation enough, here are some other reasons …
Disclosure: This is a paid collaboration. If there’s one kind of food that is consumed with greater frequency than anything else in our house, it’s cake! We bake fairly often, can’t walk past the relevant aisle in the supermarket without getting one and both sets of grandparents know that they won’t be granted admission to our …