The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
We started the May half term holidays a bit glum about the fact we had no plans. That all changed very quickly on the first Saturday afternoon. A family member had offered to lend us a 12 man tent and despite us both saying, “we will never go camping”, we had the sudden desire to […]
It’s no secret that we are a family who LOVE holidays and day trips. We love to always be active and cram as much into every day as we can. We love action, adventure and silliness. We love to make each other smile and laugh. We also love to have a little bit of rest […]
If you thought the title of this post was propaganda or clickbait, you were wrong. One marriage proposal, three birthdays and two divorce’s are just some of the things that have happened in the last few months. To be a little more accurate… One marriage proposal, three birthdays, two parties, two divorce’s, two flights, ten train journeys, […]
People who have been reading my blog for a long time, will know that I have a huge love of travel (so much so, that I started a second blog, a travel blog, just for my travel posts) and a huge love of writing. I used to blog poetry and prose every Wednesday back when […]
Over the Easter holidays, Bunny joined Beat Camp for two days. Bunny has wanted to do Beat Camp for a really long time, so we decided to make it happen. Beat Camp is a holiday club (and after school club in some Gloucestershire schools) for children aged between 6-12 years. Beat Camp encompasses different percussion techniques (including junk […]
We are hugely looking forward to our first family holiday abroad – our first holiday as a family of five, that is. Bunny has been abroad with us, to France and to Cyprus, but we’ve not been abroad since having the twins. This time we are going to Italy. To Lake Garda with Eurocamp and […]
Hands up if you are collecting The Sun £9.50 holiday tokens right now? *Puts hand up* We went on a Sun £9.50 holiday last year, to our favourite caravan park in the UK. Haven’s Devon Cliffs park. My parents had a caravan there when I was little and we used to go every weekend. I went […]
This year, has been a particularly difficult one for our family. Yet at the same time, it has renewed our sense of family values, reinforced in our minds, the importance of cherishing the good times together. Despite the issues with my Cancer and job loss, we’ve still had a lot of fun and laughs and […]
Inspired by Jim The Wordslinger, one of my favourite bloggers and one of the first blogs I ever read, I have decided to post my “30 before 30” list… That is 30 things I would like to have done by the time I reach 30. I realise my list unfortunately includes some rather expensive ambitions […]