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It’s big, hairy spider week here in Hampshire. Seriously, they are EVERYWHERE. The false widow we found on the trampoline yesterday [and swiftly relocated] was by far the biggest I’ve seen, and the pyjama spiders [garden orbital ones, we call them Miss Muffet spiders or pyjama spiders, depending on how stripey they look] on the bushes…
Each time I hear people talking about important it is to find time for themselves, “me time”, or how husbands and wives should take time to go out together, I scream on the inside a little. Sometimes more than a little if I’m honest. Enter the Date Night subscription box from Get A Date. We’ve been parents…
This time last year, Hero fell in love with a dancing robot called Beatbo. Now he’s back with his Bright Beats Learnin’ Lights Dance Mat. And Hero is more in love, because if there’s anything he loves to do, it’s dance. Like his big brothers, as soon as they hear a rhythm, they have to…
You know that toys are good when they impress your own parents. Parents of parents have bought and seen most of the toy fads come and go and have invested a serious amount of time and money in them. A huge box arrived on my doorstep with the Tonka brand label splashed across the cardboard this…
Compassion is a hard thing to explain to children. When I taught other people’s children in the classroom, I knew that my actions had a big impact on them – their opinions, values, morals. They would go home and preach whatever I’d taught them about behaviour and responsibility to exasperated parents who had been saying…
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This week we are back to school – and I’m kidding myself that I will have more time now that only Hero will be at home. Our Picture Perfect week on Instagram last week was full of photos of our stay in Pembrokeshire, our day on the Independence of the Seas in Southampton, strolls with…