After our visit to Simon Rogan’s Pop up Restaurant, we caught the park and ride bus down into the town centre to have a walk around the markets and see what local produce was on offer. Stalls ranging from locally brewed ales to locally produced cheese, local fishmongers and butchers with a huge variety of… Read More
The last weekend in September means Taste of Cumbria Festival in Cockermouth, Cumbria. Seeing as I live not too far away, we have attended the festival every year since the first event in 2009. It’s a great showcase of local food produce, drinks and kitchenware there are produced and manufactured locally. THE Simon Rogan, of… Read More
We’re always looking for things that will help make our lives that little bit easier. We love to take O out for the day with a picnic or out for a long walk in the woods. O drinks a lot of juice at home and often becomes thirsty on our adventures, so looking for an… Read More
Here in the mentalparentals household, we have a bit of a thing about magnets. Since A and I met, we’ve collected magnets from the different places we’ve visited, so we now have quite a collection. I’ve been given a fabulous opportunity to review some personalised magnets by PickStick – a UK company that can turn your… Read More
Back in October last year, the lovely folks over at Meadow Kids sent us some lovely books for O to review. You can read our review of “Little Dinosaur Learns to Roar” and a set of early learning books here. Now that O has turned 3 years old, there appears to be a whole world… Read More
We are particularly passionate about O’s learning and development. we regularly buy new books and sit and read together at least twice a day. we find that those few minutes spent with O sat on our knee, or snuggled up next to us on the sofa or in bed, are some of the most enjoyable… Read More
The DGJ Organics range of organic haircare products were originally developed by a celebrity hairdresser Daniel Galvin Junior (hence the DGJ…) 10 years ago, when there were no other organic hair products on the market. DGJ Organics have a special kids range in which we were asked to review the Kids Top to Toe 3-in-1 Conditioning Shampoo… Read More
the 19th september 2013 saw the launch of the new DC Super Friends magazine created for pre-school boys aged between 2 and 5 years old. as you may be aware, O turned 2 at the beginning of august so he is at the younger end of this age range.O helped me to tear open the… Read More
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