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Kiddyum review: Finally! A 100% healthy kids’ ready meal

At last! I’ve finally found a solution to tea times when I've been working all day, my supply of homemade meals in the [...]

By |July 31st, 2015|Food, Reviews|2 Comments

Summer days out with the kids #2: Whitstable Oyster Festival, Kent

You’d think a love of oysters would be a prerequisite for visiting an oyster festival. It’s not. I hate oysters. [...]

By |July 29th, 2015|Family days out, Reviews|8 Comments

Natural Ketosis diet review: I dropped a dress size and lost three inches from my waist in 28 days

And I did it eating butter, double cream and pork scratchings. It sounds bonkers, but that’s what following a natural [...]

By |July 27th, 2015|Reviews|0 Comments

Flashback Friday: ‘He doesn’t look anything like you’

‘He doesn’t look anything like you’ and ‘they don’t look like brother and sister’. Those are some of the remarks [...]

By |July 24th, 2015|Parenting|6 Comments

Summer days out with the kids #1: Sensational Butterflies Exhibition, London

BB doesn't even start school until September yet with the school holidays now upon us I already feel like we should [...]

By |July 22nd, 2015|Family days out, Reviews|6 Comments

The Loch Ness monster came to our wedding

It seems like a lifetime ago that I walked down the aisle and became Mrs Misery Guts. In fact it [...]

By |July 17th, 2015|Family life|12 Comments

Do I REALLY need to buy a new cot mattress for baby number two?

After almost nine months sleeping in (our bed) his bedside crib it’s time to move Little B into a proper [...]

By |July 15th, 2015|Parenting|0 Comments

Easy kids cupcake recipe: banana & raisin ‘bread’

I had planned a different post for today, but it’s raining cats and dogs here so I thought I’d share [...]

By |July 13th, 2015|Recipes|6 Comments

Flashback Friday: the day we nearly burnt down my mum & dad’s house

This time two years ago we were preparing for our first foreign family holiday, which called to mind the previous year’s [...]

By |July 10th, 2015|Family life|4 Comments

5 tips for pain-free breastfeeding

When people talk about breast feeding being painful, I always assumed they meant in the bleeding nipples type of way, [...]

By |July 10th, 2015|Breast feeding|6 Comments

My 8 photos of happiness tag

It’s so easy to take photographs, file them away and suddenly its months or even years before they see the [...]

By |July 8th, 2015|Family life|10 Comments

It’s only now he’s got reassuringly chunky milk-filled legs that I’ve started to relax

When Little B was born and I wrote my last ‘Pregnancy after multiple miscarriage’ post I said I wouldn’t write [...]

By |July 6th, 2015|Baby|6 Comments

Flashback Friday: A royal christening

If you haven’t already heard, then you soon will. This weekend Princess Charlotte will be christened – a day after [...]

By |July 3rd, 2015|Family life|2 Comments

The world’s first baby spa: such a thing does indeed exist

In what has been the hottest week of the year so far we’ve been keeping cool with a trip to [...]

By |July 1st, 2015|Parenting, Reviews|9 Comments