From the monthly archives: January 2012

Family Time With The Grandparents

By On January 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Time together is really special, especially the time my children spend with their Grandparents, and last week we all went to together to enjoy a brass band festival. I’m really happy with the photographs I took, I like natural shots rather than posed pictures, so I tried [...]

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To Switch… Or Not. What Do You Think?

By On January 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

January has been a month of ‘cleaning house’. I didn’t intend it this way but this is the way it has turned out. It has been a month of looking at areas of my life that need improving and doing something about them. It has been about biting the bullet [...]

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Butlins, Baby!

By On January 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Before a family break, there is always the preparation and here are my children getting excited about a trip to Butlins!

I’m always mindful that having lots of family experiences together is better than ‘stuff’. I’d prefer to take my children on a day out to have fun together [...]

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Review: Its Got Soul Shoes

By On January 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

**This is a Product Review Post**

Product Name: Premium School Shoes by Its Got Soul
Buy Online Here: www.itsgotsoul.co.uk
Price: £49.99
Star Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

The blurb: Its Got Soul’ offer a new and stylish solution to ill-fitting and unsupportive [...]

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Our weekend with Kermit!

By On January 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Is it a ‘normal’ thing to do to take a two pint milk carton to the spa, or to your son’s classroom? What if you stuck a Kermit face onto the front of it? Is that better or worse?!

Well this is what we did over the weekend! On Friday [...]

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I’ve got some ‘Training’ to do!

By On January 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Wow! January is usually a month where all the bills come in but my post lady has just been and I’ve had a rather nice envelope…

Cross Country Trains have sent me a voucher for a Family Railcard and are letting me pick a destination I [...]

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Littlewoods Fashion Challenge – The Results!

By On January 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

DISCLAIMER: I got free clothes! Yes, this post is a review post so if you don’t particularly like those, stop reading although you will miss out on a laugh when you see me in the last picture.

I love clothes (who doesn’t?!) so when Littlewoods offered me a few new [...]

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Competition to Win a Butlins Break!!

By On January 4, 2012 · 1 Comment

Now I’m a bit of a ‘comper’ (is that what you call someone who is into competitions?!) I like entering, because – well, you never know do you? And you have to be in it to win it!! So I have just been told about a great competition where someone [...]

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