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Reducing Fraud
Now that Clara and I both work full time, we find it hard to get out to the shops to buy Birthday gifts and Christmas presents. We’ve always used online shopping sites, but now our use of online...
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My Songs Children’s Spotify app.
We love music in our house, we’re always singing or humming along to the radio and quite often notice M doing the same. I’m always making new playlists and downloading the latest album, so I signed up...
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Family fireworks – 2014
Last year on the 5th November, we watched fireworks being lit in our back garden by M’s Grandad whilst we stood safely in the conservatory. M wasn’t too impressed with the bangs and flashes so was...
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Gro Anywhere Blind – Review
If like me you are someone who likes to sleep, but you have a child who is easily woken by the sun rising, you need a Gro Anywhere Blind in your life. When the summer began and the clocks changed we...
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The Gruffalo’s Trail
Last year C and I took M on a Gruffalo Trail round Moors Valley Park. It was raining, M fell asleep and C and I ended up filling in all the clues on our own whilst M snoozed. This year our experience...
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Camp Bestival going wild in 2015
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, then you’ll know that this year we attended Camp Bestival for the first time and fell in love. It was our first ever festival and did not disapoint. This year’s...
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Happiness in actions
November was a testing month. With our little dude catching the mother of all colds on the same week that I was admitted to hospital and then every other person in the house catching the dreadful cold...
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Special Message from Portable North Pole (PNP)
I first discovered the Portable North Pole site a few years ago. I created a couple of videos for various loved ones and enjoyed seeing their faces when they watched them. We made a PNP video for M...
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Marrying the second time
If you follow us on Twitter you more than likely will be aware that Clara and I are converting our Civil Partnership to a Marriage on the 20th December. When we first discovered the new same sex...
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Christmas Family Wishlist
I love Christmas and the magic that it brings. Now that we are parents I feel that we hold this huge responsibility to keep the magic burning for our little dude and to be honest, I don’t mind in the...
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Wartime Christmas Festival – 2014
For the last three years, we’ve taken M to the Tank Museum for their annual Wartime Christmas Festival. It’s a lovely little event that takes you back in time to explore the various tanks on display,...
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Breville Blend Active – For the whole family
Clara and I have been on a bit of a health kick for the last few months. We’re always looking for ways to get more fruit and veg into our diet and have increased the healthy meals we eat. M is a bit of...
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A perfect beach holiday
Clara and I have always been drawn to the beach. It holds so many happy and incredibly important memories in our lives. It could be the soothing effect watching the waves have, or the fun of building a...
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Stand up for good snacks with Ella’s Kitchen
M has been a bit of a fussy eater for a while now. But one thing we can always be certain he will eat, Ella’s Kitchen snacks. We were drawn to Ella’s Kitchen when M was very small as we wanted to get...
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We now own a smart DVD player
Thanks to our partnership with Panasonic we are now the proud owners of a smart DVD player, which if you’d like to you can refer to it by it’s official name (Smart Network 3D Blu-ray Disc™/ DVD Player...
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Christmas Lights in London – 2014
Long before M arrived in our lives, Clara and I imagined ourselves taking our children on a trip to see the Christmas lights in London. We both had lovely memories of wandering down Oxford Street or...
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My soulmate is now my wife
The first family member I came out to was my mum. It all began with a conversation with about marriage as my sister was preparing to walk down the ailse. I was expressing how much I disliked marriage...
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Dinosaur boots for a dinosaur fan – #Review
Our little dude is a huge dinosaur fan. He has many dinosaur figures, dinosaur books, dinosaur t-shirts and even takes his dinosaurs into the bath. So you can imagine his excitement when some extra...
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Happiness in actions
November was a testing month. With our little dude catching the mother of all colds on the same week that I was admitted to hospital and then every other person in the house catching the dreadful cold...
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Special Message from Portable North Pole (PNP)
I first discovered the Portable North Pole site a few years ago. I created a couple of videos for various loved ones and enjoyed seeing their faces when they watched them. We made a PNP video for M...
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