Helping Mums Embrace Gentle Living & Easy Journaling

Tips on affording and buying birthday or christmas presents for children

Presents

I was asked to come up with top tips for parents worried about affording presents for their kids at Christmas and Birthdays by the lovely Danny Smith from Radio Verulam‘s drive time show (92.6FM). I’ve written my tips below, but if you fancy listening to our dulcet tones, then head to the bottom for the […]

Are you a stress junkie or got your stress habit under control?

Radio show about stress

So last months LifeStyle feature with Radio Verulam and the lovely Dapper Danny Smith on his Drive Time show was all about stress. Sorry for the delay in posting it, my life has been a bit stressful!! The big question is, when should you do something about being stressed and when is it just normal […]

How to easily build a family budget that works and reduces your stress!

Now stay awake! Remember I told you in my previous post about why budgeting is fab, that having a budget will reduce your stress, improve your relationships and give you a better sex life? So now I’m going to give you some tips on how to build a budget, because it’s not always that obvious. […]

Is it the Mum’s responsibility to keep the romance alive?

Is it possible to have romance and kids?

I was asked to pop onto the breakfast show for Heart Wiltshire the other week by the lovely Molly (check out what I said here on her blog) She guessed I might have strong feelings about husbands complaining that they don’t get any attention any more and that the romance has gone out of their marriage! […]

An Adventure in Normandy

Omaha Beach in Normandy

Hmmm a Ferry and a mobile home?  I wasn’t sure what I was going to think about that. I have fond memories of staying in a caravan in the South of France at about 5yrs old and it being a crazy fun holiday, so we decided to take a chance and accepted the offer to […]

The Perfect Tent For First Timers and Family Festival Goers

Glamping an Vango Tent

Ok I admit it, the Big hairy northern one was right! It might not happen often, but his tendency to want to spend the spangdoolies was correct this time. A few weeks ago he had a big panic about our tent and said he wanted to go back and look at the Vango Airbeam; basically […]

What Happens When You Mix The Mummy Whisperer, Actually Mummy and Verulam Radio Together?

Radio Verulam Radio Interview

It’s just going to be a little chat between me and Helen from Actually Mummy and Dapper Danny Smith from Radio Verulam; what could go wrong? First thing to go wrong was Little Dimples projectile vomiting across the kitchen.  Hence massive clean up required and then crossing of fingers that my neighbour would still like […]

#BlogItForBabies and Predictions for Mummy Blogging in the UK for 2012

#BlogItForBabies and Predictions for Mummy Blogging in the UK for 2012

I’m sorry, I haven’t been here for a few days. ‘Where’ve you been?’ you might ask? Well I was over at Nickie’s place on the fabulous IAmTypecast blog discussing my predictions for the UK Mummy Blogging Community for 2012.  I didn’t post it here as I know many of my lovely readers are not bloggers. […]

7 Top Tips For Saving Money And Cutting Costs: My Piggy Bank Tale

money saving and cost cutting tips

Trying to cut costs, and even save money can seem daunting to start off with. But I’ve found that once we got going, it gets easier. What I’ve also discovered is that it has the surprising added bonus of adding back the adventure and sparkle to life; who’d have thought it? So I’m sharing some […]

My First BBC Radio Interview with My Daddy Cooks

  I was in total geeks heaven; my first radio interview with Nick Coffer on BBC 3 Counties.  There were dials, buttons, screens, computers, flashing things, headphones; it was amazing.  I’d been on blogtalk radio before and interviewed by phone for local independent radio, but here I was being interviewed on BBC Radio, and I […]