It’s been a few years since we had snow in March, so I didn’t really take the forecast that seriously when I saw some was predicted. I was surprised on waking up this morning to find that it had indeed snowed and there is more of it than predicted. The children were up at 6am…
Category: Children
Secondary School Offers Day 2023
One of the biggest things to happen in our household this week was the release of the secondary school places. Having submitted our application, listing my daughters top 4 choices back in October, the 1st of March 2023 was the day we were allocated our place. Despite knowing that offers are usually only emailed after…
Cleaning Instructions for Sistema Bottles
Those who own these Sistema bottles might find this article useful. It contains a detailed video showing how to correctly clean your bottles. The video was released after a concerned father released pictures of the inside of his daughters drinking bottle which he believed was causing her stomach upsets. I use these bottles at home…
Sevenoaks to Get a New Grammar School
Having lived in Sevenoaks for most of my life I have been following this story with interest. It was finally announced yesterday that Sevenoaks will get a new grammar school. It will be the first new grammar school in Britain in 50 years, something which has caused a great deal of controversy and has been…
Lego Land Windsor
We were recently lucky enough to have very cheap tickets for Lego Land so took our two children for the day. At aged 3 and 2 I must admit I was not really expecting there to be much for them to do, although having researched before hand I could see there was a number of…
Bread Hogs
These bread hogs came from a recipe in the Peppa Pig magazine. We will certainly make them again as the children really enjoyed making the hedgehog shapes and sticking on the eyes. I must admit they look better than they taste but they provided a few hours of playtime.
Pipe Cleaner Spiders
These pipe cleaner spiders were just the thing to do on a recent rainy day. They just require a few pipe cleaners cut up for the legs and some self adhesive eyes and were played with for a good few hours afterwards.