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Orchard Toys Activity & Colouring Books : Review

7th March 2016

Rating: [rating] Before the recent Half Term holiday I received a lovely selection of products from Orchard Toys of which part of our delivery was these fabulous Sticker Activity Books, perfect as a light entertainment in the house or perfect for when out on journey’s. There are currently ...

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I See Me Leah’s My 12 Days Of Christmas : Review

22nd November 2015

Rating: [rating] We love reading books together, silly books, educational books, themed books and seasonal books. For our next review we are getting into the festive book with I See Me. I See Me have a wide range of personalised story books perfect for children of any age. For our review they ...

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Thomas & Friends The Christmas Engines DVD : Review

14th November 2015

Are you starting to get into the Christmas mood now? I know we are here, my kids really enjoy this time of year. Soon we shall be hanging up our Christmas Decorations, putting on our Christmas music, writing lists for Santa and watching Christmas DVD’s. To help us on our Christmas journey ...

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Thomas & Friends Sodors Legend Of The Lost Treasure : DVD

12th October 2015

Rating: [rating] As you all know by now I quite possibly have 2 of the biggest Thomas & Friends fans on the planet, Lewis growing up eat, slept and breathed Thomas The Tank Engine and now that love has been shared with his younger sister. They love watching the adventures of Thomas and his ...

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The Adventures Of Abney & Teal Magazine : Review

23rd October 2014

As my children are growing up, they have never been really been into children’s magazines. I am usually the mother that would steer my kids away from them as I feared they are over priced and all the kids are interested in are the toys which are really badly made and don’t last 5 ...

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Penpals At Home From Cambridge University Press : Review

25th September 2014

Now that Lewis is in year one at school he has started to get homework, focusing on maths, spellings and reading. One thing I have noticed with his spellings is that his handwriting is somewhat appalling and frequently very illegible. Handwriting is a very important skill, it is important that ...

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Thomas The Tank Engine Tale Of The Brave : Review

12th September 2014

Last week we were very fortunate to be invited to Drayton Manor again for another new film screening of the latest Thomas The Tank Engine adventure… This year for it was the turn of Tale Of The Brave. We arrived early for our preview film, the kids were very excited to go and also meet up ...

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Penwizard Leah and Peppa Pig Go To Nursery : Review

7th May 2014

Next week Leah will be starting Nursery, she will be starting out attending by 2 mornings a week until more hours become available for her. Today both Leah and I attended a settling in session at her new nursery to get her use to the children there and also the nursery teachers. This will be ...

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In The Night Garden Wake Up Igglepiggle DVD : Review

29th April 2014

Both my children are really fond of In The Night Garden, we own various DVD’s from when my son was a baby. These have been well used in the past and still are to this present day, thankfully we now have a new collection of episodes to add to our repertoire. The new collection of episodes ...

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Woolly & Tig The Birthday Present DVD : Review

28th April 2014

With the Easter Holidays coming to a rapid end we have had 2 very fun packed weeks. These last few days have slightly stopped us in our tracks though due to a sudden change in the weather and it has seen us have 2 days stuck indoors due to rain. Lucky for us we have had some new DVD’s ...