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Family Life, Health, Women's Health

How I Lost 18 Pounds of Baby Weight [Despite My Fibromyalgia]

November 19, 2020

I’ve never dieted in my life – until now. This is how I decided to lose weight in a way that didn’t compromise my chronic illness. I have never been a dieter. As a slim teen and twenty-something, I ate whatever I liked and couldn’t […]

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Family Life, Fashion

Beat Winter with Heat Holders Ultra Warm Woollies

November 12, 2020

Today it’s all about the thermal accessories that’ll get you through the coming cold months. I’m reviewing super snuggly Heat Holders to beat the winter chill. AD. This post contains gifted product from HEAT HOLDERS. All wording, images & opinion are my own. If you’ve […]

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Family Life

All Aboard the Optimist: A North Yorkshire Moors Railway Heritage Experience

October 30, 2020

We hopped aboard the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for a leisurely ride to the coast – blowing those covid cobwebs away for the day! DISCLOSURE: AD / This post was made possible by the provision of tickets from North Yorkshire Moors Railway. All wording, images […]

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Family Life

Spooky Sea Fun at Sea Life’s Ascarium

October 25, 2020

We visited Sea Life to see what they’re getting up to this half term, and there’s an underwater world of the seriously strange (and amazing!) DISCLOSURE: AD / This post was made possible by the provision of tickets from SEA LIFE. All wording, images & […]

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Baby & Toddler, Family Life, Kids

10 Ways We’re Preparing to Start Nursery [In an Anxious Post Lockdown World]

August 24, 2020

September’s approaching and that means only one thing: schools are back after lockdown and my little one is finally off to nursery. This is how we’ve been getting ready for the new academic chapter, with my anxiety in tow. Before lockdown happened, our three year […]

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Family Life

Create Your Best Special Occasion – Moonpig style!

August 7, 2020

If you like your birthdays with a bang, cocktails and flowers may be your answer. With the help of leading online greeting card and gift merchant, Moonpig, I recently got to grips with cocktail making and flower arranging on a very celebratory press event. DISCLOSURE: […]

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Baby & Toddler, Family Life, Kids

We Ditched the Dummies – But it’s Come at THIS Cost

July 24, 2020

After over three years of dummies, we are now a dummy-free household. This is how our pre-schooler dropped the dummies and the insane consequences I never anticipated. I knew there would come a day when our little man’s dummies would come to an end. Or […]

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Family Life

Keeping Crawlie Critters as Pets: Meet our Stick Insects

July 17, 2020

Last month we became the proud new owners of stick insects. As a family accustomed to the cuteness of guinea pigs and rabbits, the new, less cuddly additions have caused a stir. We’ve never kept insects before and yet here we are, bottling up bugs […]

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Family Life

Crafting with the Kid | How to Make the Easiest [Bubbliest] Chocolate Activity

June 22, 2020

DISCLOSURE: AD / This post contains gifted product from Viking Direct. All wording, images & opinion are my own, except where expressed. Crafting with the kids is one of the things we think we should excel at as parents. As if a rite of passage […]

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Family Life

Homeschool & Self Care | 12 Activities To Help You Stay Home Well

May 19, 2020

Disclaimer: This post contains some PR gifted material, denoted by an * and marked appropriately. I have not been paid to share this content. All wording and images are my own. You’re probably fed up with seeing Coronavirus this and Covid19 that. And if you’re […]

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Baby & Toddler, Family Life, Kids

Lockdown Potty Training PART 2: Potties, Pants & Poop

May 3, 2020

My therapist told me not to worry if all I succeed one day is the potty training. Amazingly she’s also potty training her son during this Covid-19 season, so at least I don’t feel like the only person deciding a global pandemic is the perfect […]

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Baby & Toddler, Family Life, Kids

Lockdown Potty Training: When it Takes a Crisis to Get the Job Done

March 25, 2020

Nothing beats the thrill quite like a new milestone. Baby’s first crawl. Baby’s first word. Toddler moving into his own big boy bed in his own bedroom (okay, that landmark I mourned more than I rejoiced). But, potty training is a whole new game – […]

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Rain doesn’t stop play around here 🤪 🌧️ Rain doesn’t stop play around here 🤪 🌧️ 🌈 We’ve put our @englishheritage membership to good use and visited SO MANY places over the summer holiday. There’s been new pop badges released which Reuben has enjoyed collecting ALL of!  He’s also done the various trails which have been fun, and he achieved the coveted 2nd, 4th and 6th visit badges completing his summer ‘passport’. I think he’s chuffed!

So here’s yesterday’s day of play - Helmsley castle. Helmsley was my late Dad’s birthplace and stomping ground. Can’t visit here without feeling that connection. It threw it down with rain before the most glorious rainbow came out. 😌 🌈 

#englishheritage #helmsleycastle #badgesnapshare #daysoutwithkids #daysoutwiththekids #daysoutinyorkshire #yorkshireblogger #yorkshiremum #mumlifeuk
Still on the school holiday adventure train with l Still on the school holiday adventure train with loads of photos to share from days out places, so just gonna dump yesterday’s shenanigans right now. 

A visit to the National Space Centre in Leicester, on our way back from a Legoland trip. 🚀 

This place was awesome! A bit of an information overload (I found) but it was all so interesting. Reubs loved the interactive bits like the mini Hadron Collider and a Q&A screen that went through the mathematical distances between us and each part of the universe.  Mind blowing stuff. We had a late lunch literally beneath a massive rocket which was pretty cool and finished off with a ‘sky at night’ show in the Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium. Could’ve spent longer as it was great, however it could be improved too. Some of the displays could do with updating in terms of ‘00s aesthetics and silly bits about girls being made of stardust and then the alien bit is a bit dubious. And I definitely think there’s room for more artefacts, like it’d be amazing to see moon rock or something from space, or even see what life is like in the international space station. How do they wash in space? Do they grow plants? That’d be interesting.

Has anyone else been here?  What did you think of it? 🤔 We’ll definitely return but not sure if it’s worth the 2hour drive on its own when there’s The Centre for Life in Newcastle with a very good space area.

#nationalspacecentre #spaceexplorer #thingstodowithkids #daysoutwithkids #familydaysout #summerhols
Summerrrr 😎 ✌️ Gonna remember this one fo Summerrrr 😎 ✌️ 

Gonna remember this one for all the things! ☀️ 🏖️ 🎢 🍦☀️
Cutest boy on the block and he’s mine 🥰 #mum Cutest boy on the block and he’s mine 🥰

#mumsboy #boymum #boymama #yorkshiremum #yorkshireblogger #mumlifeuk #daysoutwithkids #schoolholiday
Still mentally unpacking from THE holiday. ☺️ Still mentally unpacking from THE holiday. ☺️ 🏝️ ☀️ 🇬🇷
Now that’s what I call a holiday! 🏝️👙☀ Now that’s what I call a holiday! 🏝️👙☀️
Exciting, first time thrills, hot, SO HOT, breath-taking, nausea-inducing, amazing, beautiful, sweaty and a terrifying experience all in one. So many thoughts and takeaways from our first proper family holiday (never been anywhere longer than 3 days, never abroad). The Greek island of Rhodes was an experience alright. Think I need to write a blog about this one! But yes, the post-holiday come down is happening, I’m a bit sad, and I’ve LOADS of photos to share. 😄

#familyholidays #firsttimeabroad #firsttimeflyer #rhodesisland #greekislands #holiday2025 #rhodestown #familydays #greekholiday
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