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New

Tommee Tippee closer to nature ® Digital Video Monitor with Movement Sensor Pad

The Tommee Tippee closer to nature ® Digital Video Monitor with Movement Sensor Pad arrived at just the right time for us, with a new addition to the family on New Years Day, I for one didn’t fancy digging out our 5 year old Tomy analogue monitor. The cables are an unruly mess and [Continue]

Socks by Nick Sharratt and Elizabeth Lindsay

Socks by Nick Sharratt and Elizabeth Lindsay

Without a shadow of a doubt this is Fifi’s favourite book at the moment. For a three year old its a laugh out loud romp. In fact, she loves it so much and finds it so funny that we read it over and over again and I really don’t mind. Inside you’ll find sockerels, sockdiles, [Continue]

Toys

Rastamouse 9 inch Talking and Singing Plush

Rastamouse 9 inch Talking and Singing Plush

How exciting to be offered a few things to review from the BBC Shop! We were thrilled and couldn’t wait to see what came, especially as we are big viewers of Cbeebies, Doctor Who and Strictly! [Continue]

Giant Connect 4

Giant Connect 4

We love connect 4 in The Mad House and what better than a giant connect 4 that stands at 1.1 meters tall! Buy online: Garden Games £179.99 **** Initial Thoughts: We are a big gaming family here in [Continue]

Other

Rastamouse Da Crucial Plan & Other Adventures

Rastamouse Da Crucial Plan & Other Adventures
We were sent this DVD to watch by the fab BBC Shop which is chock full of loads of brilliant BBC products. Rastamouse is one of our favourite shoes on Cbeebies so we were thrilled! This DVD features [Continue]

The Clarity Digital Audio Monitor by Lindam

The Clarity Digital Audio Monitor by Lindam
The Clarity Digital Audio Monitor by Lindam is a stylish baby monitor that the nice people at littlepumpkin.co.uk sent us to test. We’re now on our third baby and our original monitor we used [Continue]

Cars 2 on Disney Blu ray

Cars 2 on Disney Blu ray
Cars was unashamedly the story of Lightening McQueen but Cars 2 surreptitiously almost tells the story of his goofy sidekick, Tow Mata. Yes, I’m slow and didn’t pick up the pun [Continue]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 on Blu Ray

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 on Blu Ray
I have a confession to make: I’ve never read a Harry Potter book. I have however seen all the films up to date, and so when I was offered an early chance to get my mitts on the final film on [Continue]

Books

Penny the Postie in Penny and the Dragon by Keith Robinson

Penny the Postie in Penny and the Dragon by Keith Robinson

Penny the Dragon is the sort of charming children’s book I would have loved when I was a nipper. It’s ashamedly gentle and old fashioned in the best possible. Penny and the Dragon is the [Continue]

Food

Schwartz Slow Cookers recipe mixes

I think I must be one of the last mums to join the slow cooker revolution that seems to be going on at the moment. I’d heard people talking about them both down at the playground and also on Twitter, but I hadn’t realised just how much they could change the regular late dinner problem [Continue]

Maternity

Widgy Nursing Pillow

Widgy Nursing Pillow

I was really kindly given a Widgy Nursing Pillow to review just before Ned was born, now he is with us I have had plenty of time to give it a good run for its money. The first thing I have to say is [Continue]

Pushchairs

Outlook shade-a-babe

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

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

BabaSling

BabaSling

We were given a BabaSling to review. I’m keen on baby slings and have used a couple in the past both of which I enjoyed using and which I was really pleased to pass on after Sophie as I knew [Continue]

Back to School with Matalan

Back to School with Matalan

I’ll be honest, I’ve only ever bought one item of clothing from Matalan in my life. I was surprised how many comments I got about it though. I have bought homewares before and the kids [Continue]

Days Out

Paultons Park, home of Peppa Pig World

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

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]