Jellycat, the very Softest toy kitten who proved that yes, I am a bad mother
This is Star. She’s a ‘caffuffle cat’ by Jellycat, she’s soft and silky, utterly delicious and supremely cuddlable. She’s also proof that I am a Very Bad Mother. My daughter is incredibly lucky – thanks to my job, she has been gifted and sent an enormous array of amazingly fabulous soft toys over the years. Some really really great ones – soft, luxurious, amazingly cute, perfectly...
Fabulous vintage-style dress for Christmas!
It’s so prettyyyyyy. When I came across 20th Century Foxy, I actually squeaked and ooh-ed loud enough to make people wonder what I was looking at. I love love LOVE them. It’s an online boutique selling vintage reproduction clothing from the golden era of style – the 1930s, 40s and 50s. British designer, British-made… and oozing style and quality. So when they offered to send me a dress to try out I leaped at...
Beano! 75 years and still going. Christmas Gift Guide
Beano. You can’t go wrong, really, can you? I have a 10yr old boy who’s sense of humour is absolutely at Denis the Menace’s level – and he LOVES Beano as much as I did when I was 10. It takes something special to keep going for 75 years, doesn’t it? And Beano is as relevant and amusing to children (and big grown up children too) now as it was back in 1938. And a Beano annual for just £3? There’s no...
Razer Ouroboros Gaming Mouse Review
Gaming mice: does your child need one? No.Does your gamer teen want one? Oh my yes.Are they worth spending a LOT of money on replacing their came-with-the-PC point-and-click? Hmmmm. For myself? No. For No.1 son the 15yr old keen gamer? Most definitely. To a baffled parent, gamer mice just seem to have extra buttons and weird designs. But they do genuinely perform a lot of functions your basic mouse just can’t. All those extra...
Christmas Gift Guide – Rosetta Stone Courses
Now here’s a gift which will never get shoved to the back of the wardrobe. Not for the children – but how many times have you heard someone say “Oh, I’d LOVE to learn French/Spanish/Japanese”? Well, now you can offer them the chance! Rosetta Stone are a brilliant self-learning programme – the leading language-learning software in the world in fact. They approach language learning the same way that...
Blurb Books: 20% discount code if you’re quick! Christmas Gift Guide
Do you use Blurb Books? I love them. Every year I create my in-laws an album of everything we’ve done during the year – they live nearly 200 miles away, and don’t see the children anywhere near as often as we’d like. So to replace all those Grandparenty-photos they don’t get to take by being out and about with us, the children choose all their favourites from the year to create a book for Gangy &...