All-in-One Mum

If you are a foodie or simply love trying new and exciting products, Degustabox is just what you have been looking for. Now into it's third month in the UK, Degustabox is a monthly subscription service that offers subscribers the chance to sample 10 to 15 exciting new food products on a monthly basis.  Some of the products in the food box are new to the market and the joy of having a food delivery put together like this is that all the food products work out to be less than their advertised retail price. The service is £12.99 per month which includes postage with no commitment necessary as long as you cancel before the 10th of the month. One of the most recent boxes contained some delicious times from Dorset Cereals, Zico, Jules Destrooper, Amy's Kitchen, Alice and Oscar's, Go! Kombucha, Goody Good Stuff, Maggi.  What I loved about this selection is that there isn't anything in there that I wouldn't eat or give to my family. I love that the majority of th...

A friend of mine posted a link to a short film on Facebook recently featuring an acclaimed photographer, Jerry Ghionis. Jerry poses the following question to a room full of photographers.  "What is your perfect day?".  A simple enough question to answer you'd think but if you actually took the time to mull it over, it's more than just spa days or track days, an extra few hours in bed or an hour to yourself in the day.  It comes right down to the root of who you are, what your needs are as a human being, what you want from life and what you want to achieve from it. So after watching the video and then discussing it with a few friends over the weekend and telling them what I thought was my perfect day I actually stopped talking and started listening.  The day that I had described simply wasn't true to myself and was something that I could honestly do on any given day of the week if I wanted to. I spent the best part of midnight to 2.00 a.m. having a debate wit...

My daughter has been testing out a beautiful new App called “ Jonty – The DinosaurWho Could Not Go to Sleep ”.   When I first saw the title I felt like replacing ‘Jonty’ with her name, to be honest! This is a very cute story about a lively young dinosaur that has trouble getting to sleep at bedtime.  The story is fully interactive so your child can help to get Jonty to sleep, encouraging ‘invisible learning’ while having fun at the same time.   My little one, who is 3 ½, loved that she could get involved in the story and make the characters move and interact with other items on the page.   I can’t really count the times that we’ve played it but the fact that she goes back to it over and over again, finding new things to do each time is wonderful.   She loves me to read it her as well as have it read to her by the narrator.   For her, getting to interact with the characters on the page really brings the story to life. You can interact with the ...

We waited for over three years before thinking about trying for our second child, and in the one month that we weren't trying, I fell pregnant.  Shock was the first reaction along with utter disbelief.  That lasted for the best part of the first month.  Waiting for something for such a long time and then suddenly having it is a very surreal feeling. So, now at nearly 18 weeks pregnant I am still stunned by my every expanding belly and my voluptuous upper body.  Other than extreme tiredness, a bit of swelling and my bump, I've had no 'real' symptoms.  I was sick from just after 5 weeks until 11 weeks and 4 days (yes, I remember it well), twice a day, if not more with my daughter.  I could barely eat never mind how I felt when I caught a whiff of something my senses now decided to despise. This time round I couldn't eat enough.  I was like a machine in the first three weeks after I found out, shovelling everything and anything in to try and satisfy t...

Named Ireland's City of Culture for 2014, Limerick is playing host to a programme of events this year. Straddling the River Shannon, it's a traditional Irish city with a gritty but intriguing past, as seen in the famous book Angela's Ashes, that hasn't lost any of its working class charm in the years since its modernisation. As a small city, it's easy to navigate on foot - or perhaps you'd prefer to hire a bike and see the city at a somewhat faster pace? With friendly locals, a great café culture, traditional pubs, a historic castle and a great art gallery, there is much to be found here. Visit St John's Castle, the ancient stronghold built by King John of England between 1200 and 1212, as his military and administrative centre in the region. Take in the stunning architecture at St Mary's Cathedral, founded in 1168, where parts of the 12 th century building still survive to this day. Or perhaps visit Limerick City Gallery of Art, which showcas...

Degustabox is a great new monthly subscription service where you receive a surprise box of 10 to 15 fabulous food products each month, many new to the market, straight to your door.   For £9.99 per month (delivery not included) your carefully packaged food box will arrive with you between the 25th and 30th of the month with texts and e-mails sent to you to ensure you are around to receive your box of exciting food products. The box that I received contained  Drink Me Chai (delicious!), Levi Roots cook in sauces, Oxo Shake & Flavour, a selection of four Bisto gravy pouches and stock melts, Green and Black's choccie, Yu! Healthy Snacks (great for a mid morning snack and flipping yummy!), Belvita breakfast biscuits which I now need to hide from my daughter, as well as a selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic Bavaria drinks. I can safely say that I either used or am still in the process of eating all of the products in the box.  There is nothing in there ...