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Christmas, Family Life

CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE | Gorgeous Gifts for Mamas

December 6, 2018

Christmas is my most favourite time of the year.  It’s the music, the lights, the decoration and the excitement of the season.  Making Christmas a fun and memorable experience never loses the thrill and with this year being Reuben’s second Christmas, the stakes are higher. […]

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Baby & Toddler, Christmas, Family Life

12 Reasons Why I’m So Much More Excited For My Child’s Second Christmas

November 25, 2018

Last Christmas was our first as a family. It was a big deal. Being a huge Christmas fan, it was the one time of year I was most looking forward to seeing Reuben experience – and it was as magical as I’d hoped. Last Christmas […]

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Christmas, Maternity & Motherhood

8 Reasons A Christmas Pregnancy is the Best

December 18, 2017

This time last year I was pregnant.  Twenty-nine weeks by Christmas Day, to be precise, so I’d hit the third trimester and was well and truly blooming.  Now I’m as far away from being pregnant for as long as I was pregnant for, I’ve donned […]

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Baby & Toddler, Christmas, Maternity & Motherhood

12 Festive Ways To Celebrate Baby’s First Christmas

December 7, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of Christmas for as long as I can remember; ever since I was little I’ve started listening to Christmas music in September and I used to play ‘Christmas tv’ with my sister (we so would have owned Youtube had it been around […]

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Baby & Toddler, Christmas, Family Life

Baby’s First Christmas | Gift Guide

November 29, 2017

Every baby milestone is a thrill but combine a ‘baby’s first’ with our favourite seasonal holiday of the year and you’ve got one event worth celebrating with a bang.  This year it’s Reuben’s first Christmas, so it’s a hugely exciting time for us as first […]

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Baby & Toddler, Christmas

Baby’s First Christmas | A Personalised Nativity Scene

November 19, 2017

I love Christmas!  I’m one of those apparently annoying people who starts playing Christmas music in September and I get planning the festivities before the sun’s even dried up the leaves on the trees.  This year I’m beyond excited because it’s Reuben’s first Christmas.  He’s going […]

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Christmas, Loungewear

Cosy Christmas Pyjamas | The Nightwear Edit

December 4, 2015

Christmas is our ultimate holiday, and while the festivities are a luxuriated given, one of the best things of the season is inarguably the endless duvet day opportunities.  Wrapped beneath a blanket with a hot chocolate in hand, nothing quite beats the indulgence of a guilt-free chill out. Cosy, comfy pyjamas were just […]

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Christmas, Health

I Want a Wedding For Christmas

November 6, 2015

Weddings are romantic, exciting and a good excuse for a party, but next to house moving, getting married is also high up there on the list of life’s most stressful events.  So really, deciding to put a wedding on the cards before Christmas would be quite ludicrous.  And […]

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Christmas, Health, Mental Health

Lonely This Christmas And No Comfort & Joy

December 16, 2014

Christmas comes but once a year – and thank heavens for that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a festive fanatic!  I love all the commercialism and ceremony that Christmas is; the music (I play too early), the baking (even earlier) and the mesmeric delight in driving […]

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Christmas, Lingerie, Uncategorized

Festive Lingerie | Jewels To Adorn This Christmas

November 17, 2014

  It may only be November but if the onslaught of festive tv adverts is anything to go by, Christmas is right around the corner. Whether you’re looking for a personal gift for your better half or treating yourself, lingerie is right up there in the good gift […]

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Christmas, Fashion, Health

Christmas Present Haul | My Best Gifts

December 28, 2013

Christmas has been relatively low key this year, despite seeing all of our combined massive family in the short space of a few days.  I didn’t get around to doing much of what I usually like to indulge in at this time of year but […]

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Christmas, Lingerie

A Berry Betty Christmas | Lingerie Shoot

December 13, 2013

Christmas Day in less than a fortnight?!  Very unlike my usual organised self, I am less than ready for the big day with so many presents yet to buy I’m feeling palpitations just realising it.  I’ve been spending far too much time dithering over lingerie […]

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Cleaned up on the school fair on Saturday. 🤩 We Cleaned up on the school fair on Saturday. 🤩 We won on the big raffle (one of the smaller prizes of a Sunday dinner for 2 - woo hoo! 🙌 ) and Reuben enjoyed the kids fun stalls, especially getting to soak a friend, get loads of sweets and winning a Diary of a Wimpy Kid book that he actually didn’t have already. And it didn’t rain, which was great!  What an awesome school we have. 😊

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I was so excited to find black elder growing in th I was so excited to find black elder growing in the garden when we moved here. It’s a dark shrub that flowers pink blossoms which turn to elderberries in the autumn. It’s not as common as the white flowering elder you see in the countryside everywhere. Now that’s lovely stuff to make elderflower cordial with but let me tell you, pink elderflower is something else! 

I made this myself last week. Picked the flowers Wednesday morning, let them steep in the sugary lemon syrup then filtered and bottled it Saturday morning.  So now I have just shy of four litres of this concentrated fruity-floral gorgeousness to sip through the rest of the summer. 😋 It’s lovely just with water and ice but it’s so good with lemonade too - might also try it with a shot of vodka. 😉 

Has anyone tried this before? Would you have a drink of it? 

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E A R L Y S U M M E R R R 🍓 This is the best E A R L Y  S U M M E R R R 🍓 

This is the best time of year. Flowers in bloom. Strawberries. Daylight hours still increasing. Hot sun. Okay I live in my sunglasses because sunshine gives me headaches and heat makes me nap but it’s all good. ☀️ 😎
Saw The Corrs at Scarborough Open Air Theatre last Saw The Corrs at Scarborough Open Air Theatre last night thanks to winning tickets from TK Maxx. They were SO GOOD! 🥁🎤 It was great hearing them play all their instruments and sing so effortlessly.  Runaway and Breathless were *chefs kiss* 👌🏻Dreams makes me think of being 16 again in the 90s, well, before the crap part. 
Awesome night. Teeth chatteringly cold in my little dress but brill experience.  Now I have a dehydration headache cos I was too anxious to drink. 😆 

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Oh how I WISH this was today 😂😂😂 Actually Oh how I WISH this was today 😂😂😂 Actually went to the beach the other week, just never posted about it. I’m layered up with a knitted jumper and cardi over the top while I wait in hope of this week’s *warmer* forecast. But right now, I AM FREEZING MY TITS OFF! 🤣

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I’m not good at getting myself out in my car. La I’m not good at getting myself out in my car. Last week was half term and I went out once. 😂 Went to Mum’s though which is a big trip for me. I find anxiety and hypermobility pains a bit of a mix behind the wheel, and I’m hoping the painful knee I have right now isn’t a result of driving cos that’d suck. But I’m soldiering on. 😅  I’m fine with tootling about to the shops and doing the school run. 🌸

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