It was Medieval Week at school last week and we decided to go a bit extra on the homework and took ourselves off to Warkworth Castle. Zoe decided to wear her knights costume and let me tell you, there is nothing more fun than going to a castle with a little knight, everyone from staff to other …

After I published my last blog post about Zoe's favourite early reader books, I got a few comments on Instagram and Facebook about struggles with reluctant readers, or engaging kids in books. So I thought I would write a little follow up piece, as honestly we struggled with get zoe interested i…

This blog post contains affiliate links Zoe is 6 and a half and in year 1. Obviously with lockdowns and home schooling things have been a little different this year in terms of school, but one thing I have noticed recently is how her reading has suddenly clicked into place. For the longest time re…

So here we are, what a weird time we are living through.
Its hard to digest exactly what has happened in these last few weeks, and it seems to have ramped up very quickly to work closing, then schools closing and now here we are.
For the forseable future we are in our house, working, schooling a…

We recently took a family holiday to Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders and I honestly fell a little bit in love with the place. I wanted to share a bit about our holiday and almost like a mini holiday photo diary. For those interested I am also planning some specific recommendations of places and t…

Last week I was off work for a few days so we organised a trip by train to Edinburgh Zoo. My sister managed to get discounted zoo tickets through work so we decided to make a day of it and get the train up from Newcastle. We got a good deal on first class tickets with LNER and honestly, if first cl…