November is a busy time for us, not only is the end of Halloween that we put a lot of effort into. Not only do we launch Xmas in our house! but it’s all three children’s birthday! but a birthday week With Tigger and Roo only being 3 days (4 years) apart, if provides complications. … View Post

Twycross Zoo – A Dad Review

Twycross Zoo – A Dad Review

Twycross Zoo is a Zoo that focuses on conservation which has a variety of animals indoors and outdoors, and their message carries of conservation follows through the whole place. Its located a the Village of Twycross near Hinkley, Tamworth with Coventry and Birmingham not far.… View Post

Halloween 2019

Halloween 2019

Over the years we haven’t always been big Halloween fans, we haven’t always dressed up, we haven’t always done things like Trick or Treat. Sometimes I’ve been working, or we have been busy, ill or one of the kids have had something on or themselves being ill. I think back and we haven’t always been in that spirit, with Xmas, we are huge fans and go all out, Films, decorations, music, presents generally having fun… View Post

Piglet’s First Day at school

Piglet’s First Day at school

Piglet recently started her first day preschool, at her school that she will be attending next year. So she has the school feeling over a separate Nursery. To get her in to there it’s been a battle, Boo has been battling for a long time, not just like a normal situation where you’re competing to get into a school, but seemingly education the school on this system, what they can do, and how they can do it. It’s a newer school but their attitude is very old school, and being in a newish estate there not use to the size and amount of people they are getting now. They even had an expansion a couple of years ago because of the increment in the housing that surrounds it as well as intake in the school. … View Post

Sky Q, do the family get the most …

Sky Q, do the family get the most out it?

Sky Q is the top end service that Sky provides, that allows a better quality Hub, access to there on demand service among other things. With the connections to sky q minis, these can be placed around the house in other rooms to seamlessly go from one room to another, but also able to watch and record up to 6 things at once.… View Post

Living with a Fussy Eater Family

Living with a Fussy Eater Family

As a family of five, we are all very different, this isnt anything new for many families but for us food out or at home can be very challenging as some of us are Fussy Eaters. For me, I have to ultimately change what I want to ensure everyone else is ok as we all have issues. … View Post

6 SEALIFE Centres, But are they different?

6 SEALIFE Centres, But are they different?

SEALIFE centres are located all around Britain and we have had the opportunities to visit 6 of them using our annual Merlin passes. The locations we have been are Great Yarmouth, London, Blackpool, Birmingham, Hunstanton and Manchester, they might all be sea life centres but are they very different? is it worth going to more than 1? would the experience be different? … View Post

Film Night’s

Film Night’s

In our house, we enjoy a good film and spending time at Film Night’s, through the years we have watched all sorts in the back round, during the day, or on an evening. A while ago we decided to make a family film night, Piglet is too young for these evenings. But don’t worry most days she has a film on anyway, frozen, Harry Potter, Moana almost any animated film you can think of she would watch. … View Post

Netflix for a Family of 5

Netflix for a Family of 5

As a family, we have several devices in the house that a stream, whether it be our tablets, Ipads, or TVs. We utilize these to play multiple streaming services including Netflix. Every day one of us will have it on at some point.… View Post

The Zog Walk at High Lodge!

The Zog Walk at High Lodge!

The Zog walk is based on the Zog dragon story from Julia Donaldson’s and Axel Scheffler’s picture book. There was an animated version on TV following the success from the previous books and animated films, Gruffalo, stick man, Room on the Broom. The walk we attended takes place at High Lodge in Thetford forest.  … View Post