Every year I get caught out by the winter weather. Despite having the experience of thirty-something winters, I'm still surprised when it snows. There's been multiple occasions when I've...
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The short answer is no. We've recently tried to limit the amount we spend after reading Your Money Or Your Life by Vicki Robin. Although we've not officially started her nine steps to financial...
Andrew 'put a ring on it' over six years ago and this summer, I lost said ring. Rather embarrassingly, I lost it in our house, somewhere upstairs, possibly in the bathroom. I was bathing the kids,...
In an attempt to save money, help the environment and smugly share our home grown produce with our friends, Andrew and I have decided to go full Tom and Barbara and rent an allotment. Some of the...
Taking kids to a zoo is a great idea, right? Well this is what we naively thought. Instead of it being a fun time for all, it was a horror show of epic Joni tantrums as she recoiled in terror at...
As promised, we had a go at eco-friendly Halloween crafts and the results are, well, mixed. I wanted to do something with TetraPak milk cartons as we recycle about 5 of these a week at the moment....