The Peugeot 2008 as a family car
We hired a car in Corsica and ended up with Peugeot 2008 for 5 days. Our 2008 was pretty new with just under 400 miles on the clock. On first glimpse we were all very impressed. The kids and I loved...
View ArticleCowes Week Ladies Day with Sunsail
Have you ever wanted to try sailing on a yacht? After flirting with lake sailing during my uni day, I was first introduced to sailing on the sea by Sunsail: Our company chartered a couple of yachts...
View ArticleGood-bye Dear Loyal Friend
We were at a playground by the Danube in middle Austria. The sun was setting and the kids were burning off some energy after a long scenic drive that day. I took the opportunity to catch up with...
View ArticleTravel: returning to familiar places
Travel is all about discovering new places, new experiences and new adventures… or is it? Can travel be about returning to the same place again and again and discovering more nuances about a place?...
View ArticleRecovering from Gallbladder operation aka cholecystectomy
Last Wednesday I had my gallbladder removed with keyhole surgery or laparoscopic cholecystectomy, as my notes said. My gallbladder had given me years of pain, flaring up at the most inappropriate...
View ArticleA Quiet House
Even with my parents here the house is uncharacteristically quiet. Dadonthebrink is away in Sweden. That is our weekday norm now and slowly we are getting used to it. We skype as often as we can,...
View ArticleCapturing memories in times of change
How often do we just rush from one thing to the other to the other? At the moment, I’m trying to get my head around our new life: Dadonthebrink in Sweden, the rest of us home in England. Sure he’s...
View ArticleWhat’s stopping me from printing?
What is stopping me from printing my pictures? Not much anymore! I’ve had so much fun in the past few days browsing through the photos from the past couple of months for my Free your Pictures...
View ArticleBreaking a Guinness World Record inspiration- Could you do it too?
How awesome is it to be able to claim that you are a Guinness world record holder? But you know what? It is totally doable! I am a world record holder. In June 2015 I was one of the participants in the...
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Octonauts birthday cake- Kwazii and Gup-B
*STOP PRESS- competition alert! Scroll to the bottom to win tickets to see the Octonauts at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham* The Octonauts have inadvertently crept into our lives, my 3 year...
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It’s more fun in the Philippines
Is it really more fun in the Philippines? Well, that’s certainly what I got to experience last week high above London. What better way to showcase all your country has to offer, than secure one of...
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10 steps to get the kids enthusiastic about housework: vacuuming with the...
Every once in a while my geeky side is reconfirmed… and then I get to see these have been genes passed onto the kids too. I hate housework, but reluctantly try to stay on top. Tell me I’m not alone!...
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Family bonding over Afternoon Tea at St Ermin’s hotel, London
Mummy, I really love peppermint tea! -Hugo exclaimed in the car homeward bound. This made me smile, especially as he usually shies away from drinking tea. In fact, all three of our kids do. Yet on...
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It’s November…so why are so many Christmas trees up?!
Over the past week or so my social streams have been filled with proud folks showing off their beautiful Christmas trees. It’s flippin’ November! It’s not even the first day of Advent! (…or the first...
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How much is your data worth?
Like many, I have lost data- pictures and documents- a number of times. Last time was this summer, when my laptop crashed and the HDD had to be reformatted and all my programs and data reinstated. A...
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Time tested review: GTech Air Ram vacuum cleaner
When it comes to reviewing products around the home, I like to be sure that I’ve really tested and lived with the item before letting people know what I think. We were sent the Gtech Air Ram cordless...
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Memories of a Moroccan souk
2006 was a fabulous year! It was the year to indulge midlife crisis and sail from Malta, to Greece, along the whole Mediterranean coast of Turkey, before exploring the waters and shores of Northern...
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#Notinmyname – Damned if we do, damned if we don’t
As the news of the Srebrenica massacres emerged and the mass graves were uncovered, I remember thinking: That was all happening just couple of hundred kilometers from where I was enjoying my careless...
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A rubbish day… or was it? #EmbraceHappy
As I reversed I heard the crumble of metal. I turned to look back in disbelief, not just through the rear view mirror… And there was a car parked, on the double yellows, just in my path of reversing....
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We bought an ambulance
Yeap, you read that right! We bought an ambulance, which we will gradually transform into CampyToo, a campervan that will fit the 5 of us. It may seem utter madness to jump into such a purchase when...
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