Desserts Exploring Icelandic Recipes: Icelandic Cocoa Soup Posted on May 19, 2025August 28, 2026 By Becky ‘Cocoa soup and Iceland? Whaaat?!’ I hear you cry! Well let me explain… I’ve had a bit of a fascination with Iceland (the country, not my fave frozen food chain), and Icelandic recipes, ever since I was three and my parents ditched me and my brothers to spend a week… Read more
Overseas Adventures 10 Tips for Disneyland Paris with young children Posted on April 19, 2023January 8, 2026 By Becky If you read my posts last week (Part 1 and Part 2), you’ll know that we had THE best trip over the Easter holidays to Disneyland Paris. We stayed for 4 nights (5 days), and managed to pack in everything we wanted to do, as well as having a chance… Read more
Collabs Protecting our family with Trek Sensitive Insect Repellent Wipes #Ad Posted on June 10, 2019August 7, 2025 By Becky Now that the weather is getting warmer and we are at the start of the season where more ‘outdoorsy’ recreational activities are kicking in for our family, it’s also that time of year where flies and all manner of bitey insects come out to play. Come summer, as a family… Read more
Overseas Adventures 10 Tips for Planning a Successful Business Trip Posted on January 25, 2017October 18, 2024 By Becky As a PA and Office Manager in a previous life, a big part of my role was organising and planning business trips, both in the UK and abroad, for my boss. The planner in me actually really enjoyed doing this and working out an itinerary, and to be honest this… Read more
Overseas Adventures Our Family Trip to Venice – Part 2 Posted on August 18, 2016 By Becky Last week I posted Part 1 of our family trip to Venice, a trip that I never dreamed we would be able to successfully pull off with a 4 and 5 year old! As it happened, and despite a lot of travelling about (we were in Venice for 2 days… Read more
Travel Our UK Bucket List for 2016 Posted on December 27, 2015August 13, 2021 By Becky I love love love this time of year, not just because it’s Christmas (duh!), but because I’m a massive fan of looking forward to a fresh year, and making plans. Not resolutions as such, but more work-related goals, and more importantly, fun things we want to do with our family… Read more
Travel Sasha is 2! Posted on May 22, 2014May 2, 2025 By Becky Whilst we were on holiday in Spain, our beautiful baby girl turned two. TWO! I don’t even know how that happened. It was sort of a weird day of celebration, as we’d already hosted a little party for her, had a homemade Peppa cake and let her open pretty much… Read more
Travel Flora y Fauna… Posted on May 21, 2014May 2, 2025 By Becky So here is the post that highlights my inner photography nerd, one that has only been unleashed in recent months, and one that I am actually quite enjoying. I had a fiddle with the Nikon in manual settings, something I hadn’t done much of before, and was quite pleased with… Read more
Travel Viva Espana! Posted on May 20, 2014May 2, 2025 By Becky Good morning, it feels good(ish) to be back in the real world. I mentioned yesterday that the blog had taken a back seat whilst we were on holiday and working on my shop launch. Now it’s finally gone live, I feel I can breathe a bit more and concentrate properly… Read more