A lifestyle blog
We have been huge fans of SodaStream for a while now, so when we were asked if we wanted try out the new SodaStream Play we jumped at the chance. The idea is simple, as it always has been with SodaStream. The machines may have changed shape over the years and the array of drinks grown hugely, but underneath it the idea is the same: making fizzy drinks for a fraction
coffee This time last year I didn’t drink the stuff. Couldn’t stand it. Avoided the likes of Starbucks and Costa because I felt a fraud asking for a mug of Earl Grey. One Earl Grey teabag in a gallon of boiling water in a paper cup is never going to the be taste sensation I want it to be for £4.20. And then a thing happened. We went to
As you will know, I try and be a pretty positive person. I try to be optimistic and and upbeat. God knows I often miss the target but is it generally how I try to live my life, and our lives as a family unit. So when I saw there was an opportunity to interview THE Rebecca Romero about her role as the ambassador for the “Energizer Positive Energy Mum
I have always remembered the sunflowers growing in France. For me they are iconic and whenever I see them growing I think of France. But what I have never really been aware of previously is just how floral French towns are. There seem to be hanging baskets on every bridge. Beautifully tended gardens outside buildings. Pots outside houses. Window boxes on the smallest of ledges. Riots of colour dotted all
Well we survived. We are out the other side of our glamping experience at Camp Bestival. I thought I should share the 10 things I learned glamping there. Two nights and three days in a tent. In a field. With a queue for the loos and a queue for the showers. We did it. And even managed to do breakfast both mornings on a tiny one ring gas stove, and
I don’t really listen to Radio One if I can help it. It makes my ears bleed. And Radio 2 sends me to sleep if listen to anything other than Chris Evans. Nope, I am now a confirmed Radio 4 fan. So how on earth then does Jo Whiley make me smile? That, dear reader, is a very good question. I will tell you why. This blog is only three
I know. Can you believe that? Getting upgrades on flights these days are about as rare as hen’s teeth. Smiling sweetly to check in staff or wearing a posh frock is not enough anymore to get you bumped up to the next class of flight. Believe me. I have tried. Six years flying backwards and forwards to the middle east. Not one. Trips within the middle east? Not a chance.
This is it. The weekend I thought would never happen because I said I would never camp or go to a festival again. Well they say never say never and now here we are. <gulp> Camp Bestival we are ready for you. First off we have the essential charging kit which gets checked and double checked ahead of anything else: Then of course comes the essential tea and coffee kit:
Woohoo. My turn to host SatCap again this week. We decided to turn right out of the drive earlier this week rather than the usual left and see where the dirt track would lead us. Boringly out on to the same main road we have been going up and down all week, just further down. But not before we had driven past a derelict house. Well two houses in fact.
Somehow I have managed to be featured under that subject heading in the latest issue of at home magazine which this month is guest edited by Jo Frost, the parenting guru. Quite how they found me or thought I would qualify to fit under that heading, I have no idea but I am going with it until I am found out. I am amongst great company, some of my favourite
Tournesol. “Turn sun” is the literal translation. Sunflowers to us in England, but to the French they are tournesol. I have really fond memories of driving through France and seeing field after field of them. All facing the same direction. Towards the sun. In fact, for me, no journey through France is complete without seeing them. I dont know what I would do if we ever had to drive through
I am expecting lots of cats and dogs (particularly Tara’s gorgeous hound) this week. And had we been at home then it would almost certainly been my picture too. Either #Fatcat, Cheeky Dog, or Bob the grumpy cat. But since we are away I have been able to feature something else. And not something that I photographed, but that Ellie photographed when she went for a walk last week. Our