I’m a huge advocate for encouraging children to play outdoors. In the 21st century I find that many parents find it all too easy to just hand their children an iPad or their mobile phone and let them play endless games on them for hour upon on hour. Whilst I’m not against technology, I do…
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Somerset Yurts Review: The Freedom To Explore
Read moreNestled on a working Dairy Farm in the beautiful Quantock Hills, Somerset Yurts offers its guests the chance to unwind, relax and truly get back to nature. Children are free to explore the fields and climb the hay bales whilst mum and dad sit back and relax on the deck of their beautiful, authentic, traditional…
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Review: A Unique Father’s Day Gift with Tree2mydoor.com
Read moreIf you haven’t yet realised it, this Sunday is Father’s Day. Like many people I’ve headed to the local supermarkets and a few local small businesses in search of the perfect Father’s Day gift my children can give their daddy. I can’t say much more as he may well be reading this, but it’s fair…
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Advert: Win a Get Out and Grow Starter Pack for your School
Read moreI’m a huge advocate for getting children outdoors and immersed in nature. That’s why when I heard about Get Out and Grow I knew that I wanted to spread the word! Get Out and Grow is launching an incentive encouraging students to head outside and get planting, growing and learning about where fruit and vegetables…
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My first trail running experience
Read moreThe weekend before last I met up with five amazing women to go on my first trail run. Trail running is something that’s started to pique my interest in the last six months or so. My Facebook news feed seems to be constantly full of trail running events and I was drawn in by the…
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Camping, Festivals and Days Out. A Summer Spent Outdoors
Read moreThis year my husband and I have decided that we’d like to spend as much time as possible outdoors as a family. With so many young people spending the majority of their time indoors on their phones or games consoles, we’re trying our very best to encourage our children to embrace the great outdoors. Being…
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Children See The Joy In The Simplest Of Things
Read moreThe Easter holidays were really a revelation for me. Having started a new job a few weeks back this meant I worked Monday to Thursday until 12.30pm during the holidays. By the time I got home all I wanted to do was spend time with my children. I think this is something I previously took…
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Easter Holidays Week 1
Read moreThe start of the Easter holidays last week has been full of fun! Although I worked Monday to Thursday last week (read more about this here) we still managed to do lots of fun things! On Monday after I arrived home from work we spent most of the day in the garden playing tennis, racquetball…