There is a great magic which surrounds the Disney experience – even if it is in the cold and rainy mid Winter. The great thing about Disney in France is that the landscape changes to reflect the seasons, so our trip was bursting with Autumnal colour and also a great preview of the Christmas season. [...]

It’s not often you end up having dinner with the hottest Brit boy band around, and it’s true, we have photographic evidence from this weekend’s Disneyland Paris adventure. Yes, this grainy photo is The Wanted. They were guests of honour at the Christmas Disney trip last weekend. To say that Miniminx was star struck was [...]

This is my first post on our Christmas trip and I’ve not been able to upload my photos because the camera battery has crashed. But here’s a start anyhow. We’re in Disneyland Paris for the grand unveiling of the Christmas extravaganza. Susanna from Amodernmother is here and so is Liz Jarvis from Livingwithkids. We’re staying [...]

What do you do for Hallowe’en? Are you a dress up and go crazy household or do you ignore the whole thing? We love Hallowe’en and while cynics say it’s a vastly commercial enterprise, I don’t think forking out £3 for a pumpkin and £5 for sweets to give to kids at your front door [...]

I never imagined that my blog would be ‘throttled’. In fact, the term itself seems an incredibly unlikely thing doesn’t it? But it happens, and it happened to me. I checked my blog a few weeks ago because my traffic showed zero and I when I went to the home page I found it was [...]

Did you know the creator of Wonder Woman also invented the lie detector? Neither did I until comic curator and screen writer Ian Rakoff explained this to me today. The creator of Wonder Woman was Harvard alumnus, William Moulton Marston. His lifetime achievements spanned a career as a psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor, and comic-strip writer. [...]

Like most women, I use moisturisers and spend quite a bit on them but I’ve never tried botox because I’m worried it would freak me out and I would have to wait six months to be rid of it. Plus, I also like to have facial expressions. That said, I have an inquisitive nature and [...]

I’m one of ‘those women’ – the one who walks into a room, smiles and then who falls over in six inch heels and I can sit at my desk for an afternoon with eyeliner transferred in a straight line from my eyelid to my cheek – how I achieved that look is beyond me [...]

Bedtime story books are great and over the years we have trawled through at least a few hundred. And some of them, like The Hungry Caterpillar and Guess How Much I Love You, a few hundred times each. As school gets more complex and homework begins to take over the evenings, it’s hard to keep [...]

When you swap urban life for the burbs, there’s no graffiti, there are no cool art galleries in warehouses or pop up clubs. It’s privet hedges, net curtains, recycling bins and chelsea tractors. It’s a soft focus landing and sometimes feels like the Truman Show but it’s neither sinister nor eerie, it’s great if you’ve [...]

I travel a lot because I like to, and more often than not, it’s with my daughter. We’ve had both good and bad journeys but I always try and engender a sense of awareness in her so that she behaves herself, we all do don’t we? As women, we are told we play many roles [...]

Now that Summer is over, there’s nothing better than a slow cooked Sunday roast to make the weekend a special one. If you want a helping hand with your Sunday roast, Aunt Bessie’s has loads of online help and ideas. Plus you can win your own new IKEA kitchen worth £8000. Well don’t hold back, [...]

I had an interesting chat on twitter last Friday with @liaonet which has led to me posting this video.   It’s very well put together because it tells a story, which is narrated by Stephen Fry, and it’s a short but comprehensive view of how reforestation is helping sustainability.  You can hashtag this on #weforest if [...]

We’ve been given a new kitchen gadget to try out and it’s been quite a lot of fun and no mess – which is quite something in our house. The product we’ve just been testing out is the new Sodastream home drinks maker and I’ve put it to the test with my trusty 10 year [...]

Bangladesh is full of vivid colours. It’s easy to be mesmerised by what surrounds you there. I took this photo from the plane when we landed in Barisal, Bangladesh. We’d flown from Dhaka across waterlogged terrain and landed on water. The blurred images are of the children who ran to meet us, it was quite [...]

Hello Nick We are well aware of your MDG meeting soon.  It was part of the motivation for our trip to Bangladesh and we’ve had massive support from the British Mummy blogging community in England which has followed our trip in minute detail.  Now it’s time for us to call on you and ask you [...]

I’m here to understand what lies beneath statistics, but first of all, let me offer you some: Between 1980 and 2008, the mortality rate for children aged one to four years fell by 61 per cent from 51 deaths per 100,000 population in 1980 in the UK, to 20 deaths per 100,000 population in 2008 [...]

What does it take to be authentic and genuine? It’s not just a matter of being yourself, sometimes things find you that resonate and make you reconsider not just who you are, but what you think and feel and say, and write. And of course what you do. Bangladesh is one of those rare experiences [...]