The Future's Bright, The Future's Ginger
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Last weekend we travelled to Birmingham for my birthday weekend away and our annual trip to Drayton Manor. We were invited to stay at the Campanile Birmingham hotel and arrived to a warm welcome on Friday evening.
I only realised late last night that it was Siblings day yesterday. There may not be a linky for this post anymore but I still like to do an update on LP and Little Man each month, something I’ve been doing since the start of 2014. It’s a nice tradition and one that has seen the children grow from a baby and toddler to the little people they are today. It’s been such a privilege to watch them grow and document their relationship month on month too.
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It’s safe to say that Autumn is by far my favourite season. It’s my birthday in autumn, I feel at home with the colours of autumn and I get to layer up, wear comfy clothes and snuggle in blankets when I’m at home. Along with that is the seasonal food of autumn – dinners with gravy, hearty puddings with custard and pumpkin flavours everywhere.
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I don’t mind admitting that I’m a little out of touch with children’s TV. I know the shows from my childhood and I know the shows that the children loved when they were toddlers – when we’d watch the same show on repeat for hours. But now that the children are a little older I lose track of what they’re watching, the characters and the theme tunes. But, when the Everybody’s Best Friend Waffle Soft Toy turned up at the door Little Man and LP sang me the theme tune and looked so happy. He’s obviously one of the latest CBeebies TV characters and they know him far better than I do!
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LP and Little Man absolutely love How to Train Your Dragon. They have a cuddly Toothless, watch the movies on repeat and love the spin off TV shows like Dragons Riders of Berk too. So when the Hatching Toothless toy from the Dreamworks Dragons franchise arrived to review they couldn’t have been more excited.
Whenever we visit anywhere new we always try to get a good balance of fun and exploring whilst still learning about the place and its history. This was no different when we were in Mauritius. We tried to learn as much as we could about the island whilst going at the children’s pace and making everything as interesting as possible for them.
Welcome back to another week of Living Arrows – and thanks to everyone who linked up last week. I love this project and it’s so nice getting to know the families that participate in Living Arrows each week and this year it looks like a really lovely mix of old and new faces.
Welcome back to another week of the Ordinary Moments. If you haven’t joined in before this is a weekly linky that launches every Sunday morning and is open until midnight on the following Saturday. It’s a linky that celebrates any ordinary moments in your life – or the not so ordinary some weeks too. Basically – anything goes. I’ll be sharing and commenting on the posts that are linked up during the week and there’s a badge at the bottom of the post if you’d like to add it to yours too.
It’s that time of year where kids are getting excited about Halloween, bonfire night and all things spooky. So, to get in the mood with them I decided to make a little Halloween recipe, their favourite dinner with a fun Halloween twist. LP and Little Man absolutely love meatballs and tagliatelle and so it was super easy to make this favourite meal Halloween themed – turning it into Mummy Meatballs!
Today I turn 35. Halfway to 70. I know that whilst I was growing up that anything over thirty felt so old and so far away but now that I’m here, in my middle years, it feels like life has gone so quickly up until this point and I am willing it to slow down just a little. I want to stop and appreciate life before I find myself another ten years older.
When we went to Mauritius the one place everyone told us to go was Casela World of Adventures so we booked tickets to visit a few days after we arrived on the island.
Disclosure: We were invited on this break for the purpose of this review however all opinions are my own.
On Saturday I had a very early start for Tough Mudder and so Travelodge kindly invited Lauren and I to stay with them the night before at their London Clapham Junction hotel. Just a few minutes walk from Clapham Common it was perfectly situated for our trip and I don’t think I’ve ever stayed in a Travelodge before.