Summer Holidays Essentials Price Comparison | Boots vs Lloyds vs Aldi
Summer Holidays Essentials Price Comparison | Boots vs Lloyds vs Aldi Hurrah to the summer holidays and a trip away with the family. We are off to somewhere hot soon. That sounds vague, as it should be, our holiday is not yet booked! We have no idea where we are going. This is exciting! Our […]
Harry Potter World – a Warner Bros. Studio Tour
Harry Potter World – A Warner Bros. Studio Tour On a hot early June night, the boys and I were invited to a special Goblet of Fire Blogger night at the Harry Potter studio tour in Leavesden, near Watford, Hertfordshire. I jumped at the chance, as did Jack and Josh, youngest and middle son. Dylan […]
Standon Calling Festival – Learning’s from Last Year & My plan for 2018
Standon Calling Festival The last weekend of July is now known as Standon Calling festival weekend. 2018 is no exception, this year we are in the UK for the whole three days of the festival and we doing it proper family style. We are rocking up around lunchtime on Friday 27th July and will be […]
Negotiation skills are key to getting a good deal, says Gumtree
Negotiation skills are key to getting a good deal, says Gumtree I do love to barter and always have done. I am also a bit cheeky and do like the motto ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get’. This translates to my experience of negotiating. I’m keen to learn more about the tricky world of […]
Monday Money #14 – BBC Radio Interviews and No Spend Sunday
Busiest Week of the Year I always knew last week would be the busiest week of the year. And it didn’t let me down it was mega busy with some extra unexpected work (BBC Radio Interviews!) thrown into the mix as well. A busy week of course means long hours but also money so all […]
Summer holidays – Top Tips for Fun & Money Saving summer holidays
Summer Holidays Woo Hoo Summer holidays are here. I feel a bit excited to spend lots of quality time with my boys, to go on holiday and to not do the school run!! And long may this heat wave continue with a little bit of rain please to nourish the fields and crops and flowers. […]
There is no such thing as failure, only learning experience.
There is no such thing as failure I am a risk taker. There you go I admit it, I have taken big risks all through out my life. Sometimes the risk works out, sometimes they fail I want to celebrate the failures, as many of them as possible, because every failure creates me, Lynn, the […]
Do you know the symptoms of type 1 diabetes in children?
Type 1 Diabetes in Children Diabetes is a scary disease. I had some experience with it during pregnancy. It was ‘most likely’ un-diagnosed in my second pregnancy where I gave birth to an 11 lb whopper baby. It was diagnosed with baby number three and was managed. Jack was born a more acceptable 8 1/2 […]
Monday Money #13 Poundland & Summer Holiday Savings
Summer Holiday Savings Here is Monday Money post 13, part of the series I’m hosting with Faith from Much More With Less. It’s a great way to share content about money, so do check the links at the end for other brilliant money posts! Find out how to join in if you’re a blogger. We would love […]
Amazon Christmas Wish List Event 2018
Amazon Christmas Wish List Event 2018 July is that time of year where retailers show off their exciting Christmas products that they think we will all be buying. From food to gifts, technology to Christmas jumpers, its all there in July. I have been to a few events in my time and Amazon stands out […]
How RoosterMoney is helping us to Teach the Boys about Money
We have been keenly using the free RoosterMoney app to monitor pocket money, chores, spending and savings for a few months now. It is really making a difference to the boys understanding of money and the consequence of spending money. We really love it. RoosterMoney is app that can be used for children as young […]
Buying Your Own Home: Is It Realistically Achievable?
Buying Your Own Home: Is It Realistically Achievable? If you’re someone that has always wanted to be able to buy their own property, then you’re not the only one. However, it’s definitely not something that seems all that realistic these days. Decades before, banks were handing out mortgages with no problems at all. You’d even […]