Home Decor Trends for 2018
This is a collaborative post Everyone wants a comfortable and practical home, but we also want it to be stylish. Trends come and go so fast that keeping up with them can be impossible. What you need is a comprehensive…
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Exploring the bond with dads for Father’s day
I’ve never written about Father’s Day before. Well, maybe just a fleeting mention. Usually Father’s Day passes us by. Maybe N gives his dad a card he’s made, but the OH and his family aren’t really big on Father’s Day…
Attracting butterflies to the garden with Prezzybox seedballs
I’m not a gardener. I love flowers and pretty gardens, but ours is still a paddock and apart from wanting to have a lovely garden to sit in and enjoy, I have no yearning to get outside with a trowel…
Foobot – the smart indoor air quality monitor
Ever since I was young, I’ve always been interested in monitoring and figures. Weird I know, but I’m a numbers person. The monitoring interest stems from a radon monitor that all houses on our new estate were sent because we…
Calming child-free Rousham Gardens visit
A morning spent exploring the quiet calm of Rousham Gardens, private gardens landscaped by William Kent
Lake walks and climbing walls at Trentham Gardens
Another trip to Trentham Gardens to meet friends. Read about what’s available when it’s not a sunny day, the cafe experience and more
Ways to reduce stress and sleep better
If anyone says they don’t get stressed they probably don’t mean it. Or maybe they don’t realise it. Because everyone sees stress in different ways. I’m one of those people who doesn’t think they really get stressed, but people I…
Visiting Oxford Castle and Prison
We visited Oxford Castle and Prison, and took the guided tour round. Find out about the history and how the tour works for different ages.
Enjoying the drive through safari at West Midlands safari park
Check out our day trip to West Midlands Safari park, from the drive through safari, to the doscover zone and moving dinosaurs
Trying a new eatery – The Alchemist Oxford
Review of the restaurant bar The Alchemist Oxford in the Westgate Centre. Great for cocktails but also for children’s menus and service
Codes and ciphers at Bletchley Park
A couple of years ago a friend recommended a visit to Bletchley Park. Her son had enjoyed it at younger than N but I decided we’d wait a couple of years. When we stayed in Milton Keynes the other week,…
