Our Favourite Christmas Mugs for Teens – 2020 Edit
It’s a well known fact that the topselling gifts on Amazon are consistently mugs – and it’s the same for Christmas mugs, and twicely so for Christmas Mugs for Teens. We all have our favourites; and frankly you need a different one for every drink. The perfect tea mug is NOT a perfect coffee mug, and hot chocolate presents it’s own set of mug requirements. We also have favourite mugs for different times of the...
Our Best Christmas Jumpers in 2019
I know it’s a bit weird – Best Christmas Jumpers is a bit of an oxymoron, isn’t it? But that’s rather the point – Christmas Jumpers are supposed to be awful. They were once a thing of style, and then they became laughably questionable… and now they’ve swung full circle. We LOVE a terrible Christmas jumper. The Best Christmas Jumpers are truly hideous, and yet come the Christmas season we don...
1More Stylish True Wireless Earbuds | Review
If you’re hunting for the perfect wireless headphones for your teen, stick around. I have been reviewing the 1More Stylish True Wireless earbuds, and these might just be what you’re looking for. Because trust me – I feel your pain.It goes without saying that any house with teens is a house filled with headphones. How did our parents manage when all we had was a record player? My teens are almost permanently plugged...
Gorgeous Rabbit Lamp from Fox & Ivy
We love, love, love this absolutely fabulous little Rabbit Lamp from Tesco in their Autumn/Winter Fox & Ivy range. You might remember him from our Ingredients for Movie Night. Everyone fell in love, so we gave him his own post!) Yes, it’s silly. Yes, it’s unreasonably cute. And yes… he’s just rather adorable, sitting there all neat and quietly elegant. In beautiful pure white ceramic but with an unexpected splash of...
Our Best Advent Calendars for Teenagers – 2024 edition
Teenagers. Occasionally a tricky beast to please. And advent calendars for teen boys or teen girls can be even trickier. DON’T FRET! Finding the best advent calendars for teenagers is literally what we’re famous for (well, that and our school dinners recipes…).So. Obviously teenagers want an advent calendar just like everyone else in the house (we all know that teens are 50 per cent 30-year-olds olds and 50 per cent...
‘Our top 5 family card games for Christmas’
Don’t know about you, but our Christmas is filled with silly games in the evenings; no TV for us, we spend hours playing parlour games, family card games, Pictionary (our own version; no board, a hat full of Christmas-themed paper slips, and yes, we might even have our own flip chart & stand…) and the like. Every year we add a couple of new ones, but every year some of the old faithfuls come out again –...