Reviews and Mentions

Monthly Review: February

Highlights Started the month with a Skype call with a new client. That was exciting. Another meeting with a client/friend, just needing some help finding her way around WordPress so it was just a couple of quick questions but it... Continue reading →
Review - June

Monthly Review: June

I stumbled across Belle’s review posts over on her blog by accident and decided to attempt to revive my own Monthly Review posts. This is March’s review. You can see others here. I supposed it’s better late, than never that I... Continue reading →

Monthly Review: May

This is May’s review – it’s been sat in my drafts waiting to be completed and here it is. This month’s Monthly Review. Do you write a similar post? I stumbled across Belle’s review posts over on her blog by accident... Continue reading →

Our Year in Review 2017

Having got back into monthly reviews during the second half of 2017, I decided to get on with a Year in Review. I’ve started the same post 3 or 4 times so determined that it will be finished before the... Continue reading →

Logojoy

When it comes to starting a business, business identity and brand is very important. Think about big businesses, they have identifiable logos and fonts that you automatically recognise. From where I sit there’s a Diet Coke bottle, my Kikki K... Continue reading →

Learning a New Skill with Bidvine

A few weeks ago, a particular newsletter that arrives in my inbox on an almost weekly basis appeared there. I flicked through it on my phone as I do most weeks and spotted that this organisation, is currently advertising a... Continue reading →
August-Review

Monthly Review: August 2017

I’m back with a review of August. I stumbled across Belle’s review posts over on her blog by accident and decided to attempt to revive my own Monthly Review posts. This is August’s review. You can see others here. What went... Continue reading →

Wagamama Bedford

While the boys were away, my friend posted a link to get tickets for the preview nights at Wagamama Bedford. It's always one of those restaurants that I want to visit however, I usually chicken out and go for somewhere... Continue reading →
Caketoppers

Photo Cake from Caketoppers

What’s more amusing than watching Jaxon eat chocolate cake?  That would have been watching the same toddler get bemused by the fact that his face was on a cake. Then him waving at himself before tentatively eating the cake (or... Continue reading →
Smiley Bath Jaxon

Bubble Bath Time!

As parents to young children we are often told how routine and structure is important. But sometimes life doesn’t go to plan and we have to be flexible. We have a structure for mornings between waking up and going out... Continue reading →

Haven Holiday 2016: Day Two

We had a false start to our day when Our Sidekick got up for the loo at 4.30 yesterday morning. Chris heard the door go and though Jaxon was up and wandering round so he jumped out of bed and... Continue reading →

Book Review – His Endless Love

Another book I read while on holiday was His Endless Love by Samantha Sali. In comparison to the other two books that I read while on holiday this was very different (I read the rest of The Boatman by Jonathan... Continue reading →

Huggies Little Swimmers

A few weeks ago I was approached by Huggies to review their swimming nappies. We’ve been taking Jaxon swimming on and off since he was about 8 weeks old. The first time we took him swimming he really wasn’t happy... Continue reading →

Review: Freida’s Feeding Food

Since Jaxon arrived back in the summer I’ve looked at various recipes for Lactation Cookies and other homemade healthy snacks. Especially when I was first getting the hang of how much I needed to eat to make enough milk but... Continue reading →

My First Car #myfirstwheelscomp

Sometime around February/March 2003, with some assistance from my Mum I applied for my first licence. I was determined that I would learn to drive. For my 17th birthday I was given a “batch” of lessons. Around this time I... Continue reading →

Mustela Product Review

Although I’ve been a foster Mum for almost three years, the products we need in the house for Our Sidekick are obviously very different to those that we need for Jaxon. We’ve found that for Our Sidekick we have to... Continue reading →

idealcases review…

Those lovely people at FuelMyBlog have done it again, I was offered a new iPad case in return for a review of IdealCases new iPhone app. There was a little hiccup as I no longer have an iPhone but I... Continue reading →

review – march

Books (Read and actually finished….) A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans (Started and not finished, or carrying on with but not finished…) Knitting for Good!: A Guide to Creating Personal, Social, and Political Change Stitch by Stitch... Continue reading →

twentyone: snow day!!!

Yesterday evening at about 8:30 after the United Church Service finished, Our Sidekick kept praying to God that there would be a snow day – every time someone mentioned school he was praying really hard that school would be cancelled... Continue reading →

339: Review – November

Books Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Films Skyfall Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part Two Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel CatWoman Seeking A Friend For The End of The World TV The Good Life (Season 1 – again!) Warehouse 13 (Season... Continue reading →

306: Review – October

Books Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Been reading it virtually the whole month!) Films Sister Act Stardust The Bucket List Turner and Hooch Moulin Rouge Your Highness (well the first half an hour ish then I switched off) The Hole... Continue reading →

247: Review – August

Books We Can’t Go Home Again by Max Dubinsky The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (In Progress) Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs Films Shipping News Batman Forever Ice Age 3: Dawn... Continue reading →

181: Review – May and June

At the end of each month I write a review of the books I’ve read, the films I’ve seen and a quick round up of the month but I realised on Wednesday that I hadn’t done this for May which... Continue reading →

124: Review – April

April Books Read Divergent by Veronica Roth The Radleys by Matt Haig Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Heat Wave by Richard Castle Films Watched Avengers Assemble 50/50 Big Mirror Mirror Month in... Continue reading →

009: Jeans!

Have you got a favourite outfit? I think mine would have to be my jeans – I think given the choice I would live in them all the time (well minus my pyjama bottoms when I’m asleep!) I virtually wear a pair... Continue reading →

Review: All Sorts of Goodies.

Back at the beginning of November I was offered an opportunity to review three products from Prezzybox.com. I had assistance from CJ and Our Sidekick to review the three products we received. We received Yummy Dough, Addict-A-Ball and Tude Beams.... Continue reading →

Review: November

Places visited Oldham Ulverston Coniston Windermere/Bowness-on-Windermere and The Beatrix Potter Museum Tarn Hows Keswick Lake Coniston Lake Windermere Wast Water Honister Pass and Slate Mine<> Derwentwater Conkers National Forest around Ashby-De-La-Zouch London – BBC Western House London – Royal Albert... Continue reading →

FuelMyBlog: Joe Delucci’s

I’d starting writing a whole post and was almost finished then I changed app on my phone which should have been okay but when I came back to the WordPress app and my post was gone – even the draft... Continue reading →

The One Where The Fun Begins

So this week we’ve been getting ready for moving house but we’ve also been getting ready for our trip to Butlin’s. Now we’ve got down to a few days before hand I’ve been thinking about how I can introduce the... Continue reading →

All About Lily Chou Chou

As part of 101 Things in 1001 Days I decided that I would watch more foreign language films. So here is the first. I found it while I was in town yesterday. IMDB write the synopsis as: Life isn’t easy... Continue reading →

2007

1) Where did you begin 2007?At midnight, I was at church giving people hugs then running down the corridor to tell Karen “I’m getting married this year!” 2) Where do you intend to end 2007?I wanted to go party but... Continue reading →