Hands up if your kids love bath bombs, or bath fizzers are they are also known. My boys are completely obsessed with them, which is great because it makes convincing them to have a bath much easier. So when we were offered the chance to review the new ‘So Bomb DIY’ bath bomb range from […] Read more…
Happy Museum Monday! Since we are spending our summer holidays in Wuppertal this year – one of Germany’s lesser known and underrated towns – I’m going to share a bit of a gem from there with you in the form of the fantastic sculpture park ‘Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden’, which already stuns you with artworks as you approach. […] Read more…
So, we have made it through the first week of our summer holidays. Have your summer holidays started yet, or are they still ahead of you? The thing I loved most about the summer holidays, as a kid, was the endless time to read, and my little bookworms look to be following in my footsteps. […] Read more…
Summer holidays mean children begging for snacks all hours of the day. We try to keep it healthy with things like fruit, carrot stick with hummus, oatcakes with peanut butter etc but every now and then they’ll want a cookie (and, admittedly, so will I). These deliciously moist apple & raisin cookies are refined sugar […] Read more…
As I mentioned yesterday, the summer holidays are in full swing here in Edinburgh, so I wanted to share another holiday resource with you that I made for my own kids earlier this year. In February, we travelled to Japan for three weeks to visit my husband who was working in Yokohama for a couple […] Read more…
Yesterday was officially the first day of the summer holidays here in Edinburgh, and we are all looking forward to a little time away, so it’s the perfect opportunity to share some great travel games with you. We were recently sent a wee bundle of games from Cheatwell Games for review, and we have been […] Read more…
Happy Museum Monday! We’re back with another interview, in my series where families share their favourite museums with you! This month, we have Cath from Passports and Adventures. 1. Why don’t you start by telling us a bit about yourself and your family? Hi, I’m Cath, an Irish expat living in the sunny Algarve with my […] Read more…
Exciting book news! The tickets for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival went on sale earlier this week. I thought it would be a great opportunity to share some of our favourites from the programme. The Festival takes place from 10 to 16 August this year, but even if you won’t make it to Edinburgh […] Read more…
Only two more days to go until the summer holidays start here in Edinburgh, which also marks a big change for our family. After the summer, I will have not one, but two school kids! Yes, my youngest had his Primary 1 induction last week. With a birthday late in the year, he will still […] Read more…
As you may have gathered from all the recipes here on the blog, we love cooking and baking in our house and the boys love getting stuck in too. Baking cookies is their favourite, of course, but recently they’ve both also been taking an interest in helping to cook meals for dinner. So it was […] Read more…
