Ringing Up Funds For Charity

By On July 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Last month I was inspired. I met Katie Piper at BritMums Live and heard her incredible story, about how she survived an acid attack and has since set up a charity to help make it easier for people to live with burns and scars. There are [...]

Continue Reading →

Slowing Down to the Speed of Photography

By On July 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment

One of the great things about blogging is the opportunity to continually learn and develop new skills. I’ve always loved to write and the dedication of keeping up a blog, week in, week out, keeps that communication muscle flexed. But recent months have seen me want to develop my photography [...]

Continue Reading →

Into The Dragon’s Den

By On July 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment

My 10 year old daughter who is at Junior School was presenting her business idea at a Dragon’s Den panel at the local High School one evening, and hubby and I took our son along to watch.

She has worked within a team on this class project to come up [...]

Continue Reading →

We Got A Mail Order Boy Band Member!

By On July 18, 2013 · 1 Comment

It’s amazing what you can get on the internet! I’m planning my son’s upcoming birthday party and was browsing gift websites for ideas for toys and party favours for his goody bags. When I found this…

You’ve heard of ‘mail order brides’? Well I got a mail order [...]

Continue Reading →

Gran is ‘Ab Fab’ With Milk & More

By On July 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Do you remember the comedy ‘Absolutely Fabuous’? It was one of my favourite things to watch when I was at fashion college, about to enter the world of fashion PR… just like the character Eddy!

I thought about it this week when I started working on this review of the [...]

Continue Reading →

I’m Making A Splash This Week With Spelbound! #ButlinsSplash

By On July 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment

On Thursday I’m meeting the 2010 Britain’s Got Talent winners Spelbound at the opening of the new Splash Waterworld at Butlins Skegness!

We are being interviewed for a live web TV show that you will be able to watch right here on this blog!

There is an iframe below that [...]

Continue Reading →

Roots and Wings

By On July 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment

My children go through growth spurts where they seem to shoot up all of a sudden, and I’m convinced that in the last two years, I’ve been through one too. Something has shifted.

My twenties were spent building a career and rushing round at 100mph trying to cram it all [...]

Continue Reading →

Birthday Toys for 6 Year Old Boys!

By On July 11, 2013 · 1 Comment

It’s about to be a summer of birthdays! My son who is the youngest child in his school year is going to turn 6 next month. But there are quite a few summer birthday boys in his class, so whilst he is the youngest, he’s not stuck at the end [...]

Continue Reading →

Schwartz 2in1 For The Family Dinner

By On July 9, 2013 · 1 Comment

I find it hard to come up with new dinner ideas all the time.

I regularly delve into my Slimming World magazines for ideas and pick my friend’s brains for inspiration, but I love it when someone says to me… “Why don’t you try this for dinner?” because it is [...]

Continue Reading →

Rihanna and 49,000 of Our Closest Friends!

By On July 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment

The girls and I went to see Rihanna in concert. It was something of a road trip for Lyndsey and I as we drove up to Sunderland to meet Nic and Shell but there was plenty to chat about on the way and I was excited to have a girls [...]

Continue Reading →