Thursday 24th March was the day our family was due to be setting off for little over six weeks of fun in the sun. We should have been driving out of the Eurotunnel, making our way across Germany in anticipation of the weeks ahead where we would be discovering new countries and experiencing… Read More
It’s been a busy old morning in our house. To begin with, it’s Sid’s 10th birthday. Happy Birthday, Sid! Then, we are all anxiously awaiting Ben’s annual visit home from uni. He was very lucky to get the time off work to come and visit for a few days so everyone… Read More
It doesn’t really feel like Christmas until the tree is up so this weekend we did just that. While we do own fake trees, there is nothing quite like a real tree in my eyes. We have a few traditions in our family, one being that the children take it in turns to put the… Read More
Earlier this week I posted about how Disney’s PR team uninvited our family to their Christmas Party press event a day before we were due to attend. This was after we had confirmed our places two weeks previously, after I had double checked that our family size wasn’t an issue, after we had… Read More
More than three weeks ago our family was invited to an event – a Christmas party at Disney Store in Oxford Street, London. We then received another email a week later inviting us again. We discussed it and decided it would be a lovely way to mark Christmas with something they loved so… Read More
Long-time readers will be all too aware of the plans that we have been working on for many years. Our dream for as long as we can remember was to work hard, pay debts down, to become independent of any employers and to work for ourselves. Once we did that we would be… Read More