Styling your home with beautiful prints from Aiya Home
*This is a collaborative post with Aiya Home* If like me, you periodically look around the rooms in your house, and think “this space needs a bit of a revamp and new life added” but you don’t have the time or budget to totally redo a room or rooms, then there are other ways to […]
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Conservation Crisis – fun and thought-provoking.
*This is a review post, we were kindly sent Conservation Crisis to play and share about* We love family games and we are always keen to try new games and combining the fun of a game with an educational and thought-provoking angle is something that Conservation Crisis from Tunza Games does really well. Can take […]
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How to Train Your Dragon – the best book series for kids
How to Train your Dragon the book series by Cressida Cowell has to be our long term favourite book series. We started reading them with the boy, about two years ago, and have slowly collected all of the books and watched the movies as well (and the tv series) which do tend to deviate from […]
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How to Get Your Kids Interested in Learning Languages
*This post with some helpful tips to get your kids interested in learning languages was written in collaboration with Mary Johnson* As parents, aside from raising our kids to be happy and healthy, we also want what is best for them in terms of their futures. For your kids to have prosperous futures and to […]
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Meal plan Monday – less food waste please?
Has anyone else noticed their food waste has changed during this rather strange time? One thing I’ve noticed during this time where we’ve been at home, is that we are wasting far far less food and using up stuff much more. We are also barely eating any ready made meals or over processed packaged meals, […]
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Trolls World Tour – dance party edition fun
*This is a review post* We are big fans of fun, entertaining, watchable movies and Trolls World Tour fits that bill and has been a movie we have thoroughly enjoyed in our house. Even my too cool for most things teenager enjoyed watching it. DreamWorks Animation presents TROLLS WORLD TOUR, a music- filled, exciting adventure that’s sure […]
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My Sunday Photo – Gecko will pose with his food
Spotty the gecko is the perfect model. There is an old saying “never work with children or animals” but he is the most cooperative creature. He’s very sociable and loves to be interacted with and will happily pose for the camera. He’s not like the children or the cats, or in fact, my husband, all […]
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Love and dating when life throws a few hurdles at you.
*This is a collaborative post* As someone who is married and, to coin an old fashioned phrase, “settled down”, the prospect of love and dating in the time of Covid19 and beyond hadn’t really crossed my mind, much. But a good friend of mine, who became unexpectedly single last year, had just started putting her […]
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Meet the Ravel Tales and unravel some crafting fun
*This is a collaborative post. We were kindly sent some Ravel Tales to review and share* We are big fans of crafting and creativity in our house and we have been excited to meet the Ravel Tales. They are a fun, collectible set of creatures that encourage kids to make and create something new. These […]
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Help kids stay creative with some fun & free colouring
*This is a collaborative post* During the long school holidays, it can be a bit more challenging to help kids stay creative, and finding ideas that don’t cost the earth to keep them busy and occupied can seem a mammoth task. Sometimes you just want to throw something at the kids that’s easy, fuss-free, doesn’t […]
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