Getting to grips with the Microsoft Surface Pro and Go Imagine
*This is a collaborative post, but all opinions and images are our own* We are a family who loves technology and using what it has to offer, for learning, for having fun, and also for making life function. Our children have access to some amazing technology that we didn’t have, and the advantages and skills […]
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This drill is the business, and it’s pink
*We were kindly sent an item to review, but all opinions are my own* In our house, I do a lot of the DIY and fixing things. I also do a lot of small DIY jobs at work, mending broken toys, putting toys together (changing the batteries in toys – with those annoying screws that […]
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Project 365 – a photo a day 29/08/18
This cheeky raven, at the Tower of London, was bin raiding. He actually hopped off from here and went across to the family next to us and helped himself to their sandwiches from their bag. I was so busy watching him I didn’t take any photos of that. There was no doubt who was in […]
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Bug bites and itchy stings? Anthisan to the rescue…
*This is a collaborative post with Anthisan, all opinions are our own* Bug bites and stings have to be one of my most hated things. I have lived in and grown up around the world in all sorts of places, with insects and biting bugs and I have scratched many a bug bite in my […]
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A simple but delicious salmon recipe…
Salmon features regularly on the menu here and my kids love to eat it, which is great and I love finding new ways to cook and serve it. Salmon is a good source of healthy fats and oils too and it is very versatile, you can prepare and cook it in many ways to suit […]
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Easy and convenient cycle tracking with The Ava Fertility Tracker
If you follow us on social media, you will possibly know that we are trying to add a much wanted number 3 to our household. Unfortunately for us, this has proved much harder than we had hoped and I have shared parts of our journey and some of the things we have tried to help […]
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Coding for kids, using technology to be creative with Three…
*this is a collaborative post with Three UK, we were kindly asked to try a class and review it* As a parent, I am always on the look out for creative activities that my kids can do, that they will enjoy. If those activities are educational then that’s even better. So when Three UK kindly […]
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After school fashion shopping, tween style…
There’s a lot of “back to school” talk going on. To be fair, the weeks of the summer holidays are slowly coming to an end and parents up and down the UK are either sending their kids back to school or preparing to (our Scottish cousins are back at school this week) so there is […]
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Nope, I won’t fake it just to make other people feel comfortable.
Other people’s happiness and comfort is not my priority. When I say that I don’t mean I don’t care. I am not saying I don’t want people to be comfortable and happy. What I mean is that I am not going to lie, pretend, fake it, put on a mask, pretend the bad bits aren’t […]
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I don’t want to breathe in other people’s vaping fumes!!
I strongly believe that vaping is unhealthy and bad for people and that at some point we are going to realise as we did with actual smoking that it’s unhealthy and dangerous. Apparently, even though vaping hasn’t really been around long enough to actually say for sure, it’s considered less harmful than smoking and should […]
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