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Preparing your garden for spring

Preparing your garden for spring 2020: The jobs you can do right now

Finally, after what has seemed like and extremely long and dismal winter, the sun has started to peek out from behind the clouds reminding us that it is almost spring. Hooray! With people currently being urged to stay in their homes as much as possible, now is the perfect time to get into the garden and start clearing up and […]

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Lilienthal Berlin All Blue mens watch

Lilienthal Berlin L1 ‘All Blue’ unisex/men’s watch review

Disclaimer: We were sent this Lilienthal Berlin ‘All Blue’ unisex watch to review free of charge, but words and pictures are mine. This post contains affiliate links. See more information here. Lilienthal Berlin are a German watchmaker who make beautiful unisex watches with stunning German design and production. They pride themselves on being as sustainable as possible with their watches,

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Love notes: Bringing back memories with Boots on Mother’s Day

This post is an advertisement feature with Boots but all words and images are my own. With Mother’s Day around the corner I’ll admit that, for the past 6 years, I have mainly thought of myself – the stay-at-home mum with small children at home and little time to myself, in desperate need of R&R. Now, both of my children

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Celebrating Science Week with National Geographic STEM science kits

Disclaimer: We were sent these National Geographic STEM Science Kits (Crystal Garden and Dig Kits) from Bandai to review free of charge, but words and pictures are mine. This post contains affiliate links, see more information here.  This week is National Science Week, and my children have been really excited to be learning all about science at school. In fact my

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Jooki music player for kids

Jooki audio player for children: Portable screen-free stories and music for kids

Disclaimer: We were sent this Jooki audio player to review free of charge, but words and pictures are mine. This post contains affiliate links, see more information here.  Kids love listening to stories and music, and it’s a great way to encourage screen-free time, but the tapes of my youth no longer exist and CDs are declining in popularity as streaming

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Interior of children room with bunk bed 3D rendering

Fun ways to get your kids involved in decorating their bedrooms

This post contains affiliate and commercial links. Perhaps you need to redecorate your child’s bedroom as they’ve outgrown their nursery decor, or maybe you’ve moved house or had a renovation and have to start from scratch. Either way, decorating a child’s bedroom can be a big job. If your children are old enough, letting them help you to redecorate their

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Riker as a pup

James Wellbeloved Puppy Training School: Regrets of a rubbish dog owner

This post was written in collaboration with James Wellbeloved grain-free dog food as part of their Puppy Training School campaign. Crufts 2020 is on the horizon and although our rescue mutt Riker would never be allowed to enter, we still like to watch together; it’s once of my guilty pleasures. I particularly like watching the agility bit, although faced with

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Barleylands farm park essex billericay review

A half term visit to Barleylands Farm Park in Billericay, Essex

Disclaimer: We received free entry to Barleylands Farm Park in exchange for this review My daughter and I took a trip to Barleylands Farm Park back in September last year for a birds of prey experience. Recently, Barleylands Farm Park opened their new Nocturnal and Exotic House to the public. We decided to go back and take a look. Situated

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