If you had asked me in my teens and early twenties what I thought being middle aged was, I would have probably said owning a chest freezer, driving a family car and being members of the National Trust. Indeed I think I offended an older work colleague once when I joked ‘you’ll be National Trust…
If like me, the likelihood of attending a music festival this year is slim to none, fear not. You can still pull on a pair of wellies, grab your lanyard and get festival ready for the biggest music event of the year as a number of chart-toppers line up in Blackpool. The new festival named…
Geronimo, the largest children’s festival in the North West has announced its most exciting line-up to date, with headliner CBeebies Superstar Justin Fletcher. As a Geronimo Ambassaor, I cannot tell you how excited we are about this. Last April, I took Boo to see Cbeebies live at the Arena in Manchester and this was her…
Something very exciting is happening this Christmas. This year, it is all about the Stick Man. The new adaptation will be shown on Christmas Day at 16.45 and we can’t wait. Already big fans of Room on the Broom and the Gruffalo, we will be there waiting patiently for this one. When the excesses of…
It seems to have become an annual occurrence on the blog. I visit my local garden centre at Christmas and write about it. You can read about my 2013 visit here and my 2014 visit here. This year has been no different. I am a little later at publishing but, being a lady of leisure…
We don’t get to go out much as a family. It is the nature of the business we are in so when we do, we make the most of it. Yesterday was a rare treat. The four of us went to the seaside. We love Blackpool. It was one of the first places Hubster and…
The Mercury may have been tipping 30 in the past week but one day last week, the children and I went to cool down in dramatic style. In doing so, it saw us dress in snowsuits, hats and gloves in the middle of summer. Have I given it away now? We went to try out…
Today was one of those mornings when I could have just stuck Peppa Pig on the TV and snoozed. I’d been up with Beb in the night, Boo was up early and we’re lambing. I looked at Boo’s little face though and, after the terrible weather we’ve had, I knew I had to take…
This weekend we visited the High Legh miniature railway at High Legh Garden Centre near Lymm, Cheshire. Boo and I visited a couple of years ago in the summer but I think she was a bit young and I fear I enjoyed it more. This time was different, at Christmas the railways gets all festive…
Once upon a time, mummy and Boo got the train to Liverpool to visit Santa’s Magical Grotto at St George’s Hall. They don’t travel very much on trains so the journey there was very exciting despite the pouring rain and there was a lot of “choo-choo-ing” on the way. Neither of them had been…