UK Family and Lifestyle Blog
This is a guest post from Jackie Bolen, from Reusable Menstrual Cups who is a tree hugging, friend of the Earth who can usually be found drinking coffee, or paddling the rivers around Vancouver, Canada. These days, more and more people are making the switch from tampons to a menstrual cup. 10 years ago, very few […] Read more…
| Food & Drink, Review, Travel
At the moment we are staying in a gorgeous gite a couple of miles outside of Villamblard in the Dordogne, France. We absolutely love it and I will write more when we are home but wanted to do a quick review of where we had lunch today. It was incredible and I love how the […] Read more…
Last weekend we were invited* to Down By The Riverside in Dolphinholme. We went on the Friday to camp and I’m going to get he bad out of the way now because I wasn’t impressed. There was one portaloo in the field we were in, no shower block or even a sink to brush teeth, […] Read more…
| Review
We are big fans of Brio having already got the builder deluxe set and Lucas can’t get enough of trains so when we were offered the Brio Metro Railway Set to review*, I couldn’t wait to show Lucas. The set includes a train, 2 carriages, a station, tunnel, 2 people, a […] Read more…
The lovely people at Summit to Eat sent* us a selection of their freeze-dried meals for when you are on the go. The selection that arrived included Pasta Bolognaise, Chicken Tikka with Rice, Chicken Fajita with Rice, Salmon and Broccoli Pasta, Scrambled Egg with Cheese and Morning Oats with Raspberry. The packaging is very clear on the […] Read more…
On our recent visit to Windermere we spent a day at Brockhole on Windermere. We tend to go every time we visit the Lakes as there is so much to do there. We set out from Lakeside Pier in Windermere on a lovely boat journey across to Brockholes. There are numerous crossings from Lakeside […] Read more…
We love trains, from the moment Lucas wakes up and until the moment he goes to sleep trains aren’t far off the menu! What better way to spend an afternoon when visiting Windermere than to visit Haverthwaite Railway. We took the boat across from Lakeside Pier and sailed across on a lovely spring afternoon across […] Read more…
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a BBQ masterclass with Richard Holden. I was really pleased to be invited as when food is cooked well on a BBQ it is immense but all too often you go to a BBQ and end up either getting undercooked food or charcoaled remains so I […] Read more…
| Travel
What seems like forever ago now, in 2005, I went to India. I actually spent my 19th birthday in a children’s home in Delhi. It was set up with an organisation where we were going to work in exchange of accommodation. When my partner and I (we were paired by the organisation) arrived, the organisation had […] Read more…
Hamper.com got in touch with me to see if we would like to review* one of their Father’s Day hampers. I hadn’t heard of Hamper.com before so went for a browse on their site in the Father’s Day section. They have a huge selection of hampers to choose from including food hampers, drink hampers, mixed […] Read more…
