Beauty and The Beast Pantomime at Welwyn Garden City Hawthorne Theatre
Beauty and The Beast Pantomime at Welwyn Garden City Hawthorne Theatre We love the pantomime in this household. You can’t beat a good festive sing and dance along with a panto dame thrown in all live, in front of your eyes. We have been to the Welwyn panto for the past three years, last night […]
Making Dining In Just a Bit More Atmospheric
Making Dining In Just a Bit More Atmospheric Due to the tougher economic climate in the recent years, people often live in smaller homes with less space than they might like. That has become very apparent in the bigger cities across the world, housing can be rather expensive, and on the basis of an average […]
The Christmas Tag – what I love most about Christmas
The Christmas Tag – what I love most about Christmas This type of post is a new one to me..the Christmas tag. It’s a chain of posts written by lots of bloggers and we get tagged by each other. I was tagged by my fellow money blogger Cass from Frugal Family in her what she loves […]
5 Frugal things post 54 – Sausage Rolls and Cross Stitch
5 Frugal things post 54 – Sausage Rolls and Cross Stitch And breathe. The Christmas rush on the blog has ended. Times are quieter and more chilled. So I am taking advantage of that and focussing on family life Christmas which starts to ramp up next week with Christmas Carols on Monday and Nativity on […]
Make Savings to experience a bit of luxury in life
Make Savings to experience a bit of luxury in life Life is for living, yes? We are placed here for a short period of time and life is here to be lived. I believe this applies to finances as well. It’s mighty important to have savings for a rainy day, long term savings for your […]
Learning to Drive, Aged 10 with Young driver
Learning to Drive, Aged 10 with Young driver We have just made it through three big birthdays only to get to Christmas with more pressies to be sourced and ideas thought of. I did not time my babies well! Dylan’s birthday was in the middle at the beginning of November and he turned 10. And […]
My debt story, feelings and thoughts – A December Update
My debt story, feelings and thoughts – A December Update Back in September was the last time I wrote about my debt story, and it came with a confession. A tough time cash flow wise and spending wise (double impact) saw the debt rise. By September the debt was at £14,500. Down just £1,000 from […]
New Welwyn Garden City Trampoline Park – Better Extreme
New Welwyn Garden City Trampoline Park – Better Extreme We were recently invited to the opening day of the new Welwyn Garden City trampoline park – Better Extreme at the Gosling sports centre. By far the favourite part of my job for the boys is when invites like this come into the inbox. This is […]
5 Frugal things post 53 – Credit card repayment and Christmas shopping
5 Frugal things post 53 – Credit card repayment and Christmas shopping This week has been a welcome quiet week following the busy week last week of many deadlines, photoshoots and newspaper articles. I have got my last gift list done, woohoo. This time its a list if ideas for that difficult to buy for […]
Christmas Competition from Jet 2 & Christmas Crafts with Josh
Christmas Crafts with the Children Last week we received a huge Christmas hamper from Jet2 Holidays. They are celebrating Christmas with a fabulous advent competition. Every day from the 1st to the 26th of December, you could be in with a chance of winning a Jet2holiday! All you’ve got to do is head to www.Jet2holidays.com/advent, […]
Las Vegas is my Favourite Holiday – 5 things you have to do in Las Vegas
My Favourite Holiday location – 5 things you have to do in Las Vegas My favourite holiday destination has to be Las Vegas. I have been ten times!! Yes, ten times. The first time was back in 2002, most recently was in April of this year where we went for my 40th birthday with a group […]
Gift List ideas for that difficult to buy for Husband/Partner
Gift List ideas for that difficult to buy for Husband/Partner I always have a nightmare every birthday and Christmas getting gifts for my ever so difficult to buy for husband. He probably says the same about me, but I thought I would try really hard to think of some different and cool items that he […]