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After last year’s successful camping trip with mum friends from school and our farming group, we were all champing at the bit to book another trip this year. For most of us it was a first time camping with the…
When we started thinking about N’s birthday party it was all a bit of a blur. Unless your child has a particular yearning for one theme, you can come unstuck with all the offers out there. We joined up with…
Reading (and writing) a blog is about more than just the content. Of course the content is important, otherwise why do we visit the blog in the first place. However design and format plays a big part as well. Quick…
So many more people seem to be getting into photography, or are realising that they’ve got a swanky DSLR but don’t know how to get it off. While there’s lots of online guides and courses, sometimes you need the practical…
In talking to some other bloggers, quite a few were Picmonkey users but didn’t realise they could pull their own fonts into Picmonkey. This is one of the great things I love about Picmonkey – that you can use your…
I love blogging. If I didn’t, it’d be a problem really. I have to admit though, that it’s probably not the best hobby for someone with an addictive personality and a love of numbers. It means I get a bit…
It’ll be N’s birthday in the next month, so we’re in party planning mode. Well, I say we. N keeps changing his mind over the type of party he wants, or whether he wants on at all. The plan is…
*Ad- contains affiliate links I love Christmas, but nowadays it’s more about the preparation and choosing presents. Mostly because the day itself is always a disappointment because the last few years the rest of the OH’s family go off elsewhere…
A few months ago I discovered the Konmari method of organisation and had to buy the book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo. I literally blitzed my way through it, in the hope that I’d be motivated…
A baby shower and afternoon tea at Mallory Court. If you’re after some quieter, less raucous baby shower games, check these ideas
*Ad – sponsored post I loved being a student. In fact, I just loved studying and school in general, so it didn’t occur to me not to go to uni. I was the first in our family to go to…
