Win a complete Letts ‘GCSE In A Week’ Bundle PLUS a £60 Spotify Gift Card!
Apr13

Win a complete Letts ‘GCSE In A Week’ Bundle PLUS a £60 Spotify Gift Card!

Okay, exam time is cancelled for this summer. But our 14 & 15yr olds are still looking at GCSEs for next year, and prepping for their exams is starting to ramp up again.So we’re really pleased to be working with Collins, helping you where we can to get ahead of the studying curve – no matter what your home education looks like at the moment (and trust someone who knows, everyone’s ‘home school’ looks...

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Win a complete Letts ‘GCSE In A Week’ Bundle PLUS £35 Netflix Gift Card!
Mar16

Win a complete Letts ‘GCSE In A Week’ Bundle PLUS £35 Netflix Gift Card!

Okay, exam time is looming again. And no, we really don’t know what’s happening this year – but for now our teens have to keep on as if the exams will be happening in May and June as usual.Whether they’re studying at home or in school for the next few weeks, it’s the downhill run into the GCSEs and A levels now, and revision is well under way. It’s therefore that time of year that every parent of an older...

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Dear All. We’re Never Writing Another Mother’s Day Gift Guide. Love Us x.
Mar11

Dear All. We’re Never Writing Another Mother’s Day Gift Guide. Love Us x.

So Mother’s Day is on it’s way – and in previous years the weeks in the run up were a flurry of activity in the LittleStuff HQ. Scouring the interwebs for marvellously lovely gifts. Writing up the Mother’s Day Gift Guide posts (two a day for just over two weeks, plus a whole series of flower posts this year… that’s 37 posts, and over 22,000 words…) and scheduling them to drip into your...

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The Woe of Bloody Pot Holes in Dorset (and Surrey, apparently!)
Mar04

The Woe of Bloody Pot Holes in Dorset (and Surrey, apparently!)

I live in a small rural town in Dorset – in the most northern, most sparsely inhabited, not-the-bit-where-the-money-is part of the county.I live in the bit where tractors drive, and there are only a few A roads which carry all the traffic (which is moving from elsewhere in the country to the bit-where-the-money-is part of the county, obviously). You can imagine that potholes are a constant hazard to watch out for when driving...

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Easy World Book Day Costumes – You’ve Got This!
Mar03

Easy World Book Day Costumes – You’ve Got This!

Come on, we all know it’s true. A part of our brain always dreads World Book Day, and honestly just thinks that there are no Easy World Book Day Costumes. Of course it’s a wonderful scheme, and anything at all which gets kids engaged and involved with books wins my vote. But. Ye gods, it’s not like we parents don’t have enough to do, is it? We may Home Educate now, but trust me, I’ve been there.Oh yes....

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Period Myths Debunked!
Jan29

Period Myths Debunked!

From having a menstrual cycle that runs like clockwork, to using tampons on your first period, to experiencing brain fog — it’s important that we split any myth from reality. There’s no denying whether you’ve believed a period-associated myth. It’s likely that this applies to many women and debunking the myths of the menstrual cycle isn’t easy, regardless of how many periods you’ve experienced! Here, we explore the facts and explain...

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