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Kitchen Canny
When times are tough you need to save those pennies, and let’s face it who doesn’t these days? It’s sometimes hard to find inspiration to create cheap, nutritious, delicious and appealing meals that the whole family will eat and on top of that trying not to waste anything and throw away food [Continue]
ABBA You Can Dance
These dance games tend to fall on one of two points,either the selection of music or the dance mechanic. If you’re an ABBA fan, you don’t need to read much further, the dance mechanic is brilliant and you should buy it for parties, and the odd quiet Tuesday night in. Since we [Continue]
Toys
Playmobil Falcon Knights Castle
We nearly jumped for joy when as a family we were asked to join the Playmobil brand ambassador scheme. I love Playmobil mainly because they actually do realistic Roman Soldiers and gladiators ( I [Continue]
Pillow Pets
We were asked if we would like to do a review for Pillow Pets a few weeks ago. Before then I had never heard of them, not surprising really since they are only just being launched in the UK this [Continue]
Other
Air Total Home C89-MA-T Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner
The Philips Man Iron
Tommee Tippee closer to nature ® Digital Video Monitor with Movement Sensor Pad
Rastamouse Da Crucial Plan & Other Adventures
Books
“Mama Never Told Me” books by Emily Van Do
The “Mama Never Told Me” books are based on real comments made to Emily Van Do during her pregnancy and early days of motherhood, with cartoon illustrations by g.f. Newland. You can tell from the [Continue]Food
Barfoots’ Sweetcorn Bites
I am always looking for ways to try and get more vegetables into my carb-crazed baby’s diet, so I was excited to be asked to review Barfoots’ new Sweetcorn Bites. It is a pretty simple idea really, they are literally just small-hand-sized pieces of corn on the cob, prepared, cut up and ready to cook. [Continue]
Maternity
“Mama Never Told Me” books by Emily Van Do
The “Mama Never Told Me” books are based on real comments made to Emily Van Do during her pregnancy and early days of motherhood, with cartoon illustrations by g.f. Newland. You can tell from the [Continue]Pushchairs
Outlook shade-a-babe
Cheeky Rascals were kind enough to supply us withThe Outlook shade-a-babe for review and I must say it came at exactly the right time for the drought [Continue]
Stay-Put, the buggy blanket that does what it says
For a while now I have struggled to find a good way of keeping toddlers warm in the buggy. Babies are not a problem- the conventional cosy toes/ [Continue]
Clothes
Blossom Mother and Child
Whilst I was pregnant I was offered a fair amount of maternity clothes to review, however I was quite selective and only picked things which I would have bought myself given the chance. One of the [Continue]
Boots Mini Club clothing for kids
One of the best places I have found to buy kids clothes is Boots. Before children I would never have thought this but I have found them to be classic, well made and reasonably priced. It was good to [Continue]
Days Out
Paultons Park, home of Peppa Pig World
We were lucky enough to start our holiday this year with a visit to Paultons Park in Hampshire, home of the new Peppa Pig World. We have been to [Continue]
The Age of the Dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum London
It’s not a novel experience for a museum curator used to putting on exhibitions and going to see private views to go to a private view. [Continue]






