Labyrinth – Problem Solving Game of Moving Mazes

Labyrinth by Ravensburger is a game racing for treasure in a moving maze and available in Original, Junior and Star Wars. This is a really good problem solving game which tests your spatial awareness as you shift the pathways along finding the best solution to help you reach the destination you require for that turn. … Read more

Yeti in My Spaghetti Review and Giveaway

yeti in my spaghetti

Yeti in My Spaghetti from University games is perfect for all the family*. The game is as it sounds with a Yeti sitting on a pile of spaghetti in a bowl and you don’t want him to fall in! How to Play Yeti in My Spaghetti The game is set up by placing the bowl … Read more

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Film Review

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is a must see film this year – especially if you are any member of a family. Full of laughs and life’s modern age problems – the journey to Meemaw’s 90th Birthday will certain strike a chord with everyone. Bringing the book of the same name to … Read more

How to Visit Italy on a Budget

Italy on a budget

Regular readers will know that I like to get the most out of my money and when I first took a look at travelling to Italy I knew it was going to cost more than our usual holidays. Still determined to get the costs down I had a look into ways to make it cheaper. … Read more

Easter in Italy

explosion of the cart

We went to Figline Valdarno in Italy for Easter: Italians celebrate Easter over the course of five days – starting with a wide range of religious and folklorist events: Holy Thursday – churches open their doors and welcome followers to visit their elaborately flower-decorated altars to pay respect to Jesus during his time of death … Read more

THORPE PARK Ambassadors 2017

This year we are absolutely thrilled to be given the opportunity to be Thorpe Park Ambassadors. We have previously had Merlin Premium Passes and had decided to give other parks a chance this year. Problem with that is our 9-year-old had just reached the magic 1.4m to go on the biggest and best rides. Thorpe … Read more

Transport your Luggage with Style

Transport your Luggage with Style

When it comes to going abroad without the car how you transport your luggage is a whole different ballgame to what you can get away when you can just throw everything into the boot. With our trip to Italy we had to consider getting on and off an airplane, as well as having something useful … Read more

YO-KAI WATCH® 2 – Fleshy Souls Review

YO-KAI WATCH® 2 - Fleshy Souls Review

YO-KAI WATCH® 2 – A Spooky New Adventure for NINTENDO 3DS FAMILY SYSTEMS Friday 7th April 2017 saw the second wave to the hugely popular YO-KAI WATCH®: Encountering a colourful host of familiar and new Yo-kai, mysteries to solve in a brand-new story and an array of new features (including multiplayer). YO-KAI WATCH® The YO-KAI … Read more

Alice in Wonderland Dressing Up World Book Day

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Dressing up doesn’t have to be expensive and it can be so much fun! Not only that but it can give new confidence – pretending to be someone or something else; develop creativity, imagination and thinking skills. Of course I am belatedly sharing with you my boys’ costumes from World Book Day – but they … Read more

GEEK Dreamland Margate 2017

GEEK Dreamland Margate 2017

GEEK is a 3-day indoor festival full of video games, future technology, retro-games, cosplay, board games, workshops, comic books, Minecraft cave, talks, tournaments, arcades, VR, Official Mario Kart Tournament, merchandise for sale, performing arts and more. GEEK Dreamland 2017 Information for Visitors GEEK offers a mixture of activities – some where you can just turn up, … Read more