Family

I am obsessed with safari parks. Obsessed. I’m not sure if it started before or after I was lucky enough to go on safari in Botswana when I was a teenager, but at some point in the last 15 years they have just become a…

I have a mixed history with the Trentham Estate. Before our more recent visit, my last memory is of taking a very unwell Eli to meet my parents for the afternoon, right before Christmas. He’d had a bit of a sniffle and kept complaining that…

For fear of sounding like a broken record, I have tried to think of another way to start this monthly family round-up post without saying something along the lines of ‘how is it April already?’ or ‘where has the last month gone?’ but in truth…that’s…

*This is a collaborative post* When it comes to your finances, you need to have priorities. We all do. No matter if you’re married, or whether you have a family or not. If you ever want to be in full control of your finances and…

And so ends another busy month in our household. You’d have thought, logically, that with February being a shorter month we simply wouldn’t have had the time to squeeze so much in and yet with Meg and Eli being on half term, we managed to…

It almost goes without saying that when February half term rolls around, we will find ourselves at the circus! We have been going to Gandeys Thrill Circus for a couple of years now and each time we visit, we have a great experience. For 2019…

I kicked off this year by sitting and writing about my chosen word for 2019. My word was to ‘Be’ and incorporated into that was a concept of being still and content, of being intentional and of taking things slower. So I am a little…

Last week we were invited to head into the city and experience Liverpool’s Famous Grotto.  Originally based in Lewis’s Department Store, the Grotto is the world’s first and oldest Grotto and is now in it’s 139th year!  This year it has been relocated to St…