Two children’s parties in one weekend is not the best idea I have had, although everyone had a great time it is simply that I am now exhausted and feel as though I have completed a marathon. Party one was Halloween which I have always enjoyed, we spent an hour or so decorating the housewith …
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Local Ladies
Check out this site if you like to spoil yourself once in a while, this company put on pamper evenings, London days out, and a host of other events which are aimed at ladies who like to have a treat every so often, Joanne went to one of their evenings she had a glass of …
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Ritz Tea
Tea time will never be the same, it was a fantastic experience and one I hope to do again, our day started with the train to London at 8.30am then jumping on the tube to Piccadilly and having a quick breakfast in Cafe Nero then we hit the shops, which was wonderful. As we had …
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Brilliant Deals From Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn are doing such a tempting offer it runs between 17/12/09 and 31/01/10 it must be booked before the 09/12/09 the package is 2nights B&B, plus dinner on one night from £99 for the room, which means you can take the kids as well, they clearly state kids stay and eat free. After doing …
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What A Day!!!
Today Saturday has been very special, I have had Imogen and Paige staying over which has been wonderful then we also got a phone call to say our friends from Hong Kong are in the Uk and about an hour away so they would be popping in. Wow that was quite a shock I quickly …
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Travelodge £9 Deals
Travelodge have done it again and reduced the price of their rooms to less than the price of a meal at some pubs, they are limited in number but you can get them, we had one last year and had a day or two away in Cornwall. This deal is only between 29th November and …
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Play Day By The Sea
First day of the 2week break and when I arrived this morning at work the cries from the children were are we going out granny, it was not a brilliant forecast so Joanne suggested we took the children to Monkey Business in Gosport, which is an indoor play area with things to climb from, swing …
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Center Parcs, Is This Really For Us?
I received an e-mail last week from one of my readers, she stated that she loved a piece I had done on Center Parcs but felt I had not gone into enough detail for her to consider taking her disabled son, she said that often she has read disabled friendly then got their to find …
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Payback Time
I was livid to read about the MP,s that are refusing to pay back expenses claimed that should not have been passed, we would not get away with that. I was thinking about all the families that had over payments on the families tax credits that had been no fault of their own, they have …
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Shopped Till We Dropped
Joanne and I along with Paige and Summer spent today having a girlie shopping day in Southampton, it was great, we both came away with bags full of goodies, and yes Paige got something too, bright pink fluffy pjs. I am really enjoying sharing these things with Joanne, I missed a lot of this when I was working …
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Walnut Harvest
This week has been our harvest week on the farm, I have loved it, collecting the Walnuts is somehow very relaxing, but also back breaking as we have a good crop this year and when you are bending down picking them off the floor for over an hour your back seems to creak as you try …
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No It Is Not Too Early To Think Of Christmas.
I love Christmas, everything about it, so to me it is not a problem that when September goes out the shops start to fill up with all the Christmas stuff, OK I do think the mince pies should not really show up till about November. During the week watching early morning TV with my coffee …
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