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Santa’s Winter Wonderland at Tropical Birdland
Being Christmas obsessed it is hard to find a Santa experience we haven’t yet done yet locally. Still, we hadn’t been to Tropical Birdland for their Winter Lantern Fairy Walk, so this year we decided to check it out, after hearing several good things about it last year. We arrived…
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Review: Sleeping Beauty at Loughborough Town Hall
Last Friday, Team Raucous headed to Loughborough Town Hall to see the panto for our first festive production. Since The Littlest is only five and hasn’t been to a panto in the last two Christmases due to covid, we were all very excited about the show. Loughborough’s panto is produced…
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Keeping The Whole Family Happy
Every family wants to be happy, but with such a mixture of personalities living under one roof, it can be challenging to find the perfect balance that suits everybody. As a parent, it’s your job to make sure you can help everyone find this balance and live a happy life…
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Simple Self-Care For Busy Mums
We have all got those friends that proclaim to read multiple books a week, learn a new language, do yoga sessions before work, go for long rambles in the countryside and continuously talk about how self-care is essential for mental health. They are right, of course, but the chances are…
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Kids & Exercise
Exercise is important for supporting your children’s wellbeing, but it can be very difficult to get kids motivated or interested in exercise, especially, if like me, you’ve never been a natural exerciser. Younger kids spend most of their days zooming around so they’re less of a worry, but as they…
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Planning and Hosting a Halloween Party for Pre-Schoolers
I have always loved Halloween, it always involved dressing up and either going out-out or heading to a house party. Naturally when kids came along, my plans had to adapt too, but the love for Halloween is still there! Fortunately we have moved to an area where families seem to…
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10 Rainy Day Summer Holiday Ideas
What to do on a rainy day, in the summer holidays? We had a week in the holidays that was absolutely scorchio then all of a sudden, the rain started and doesn’t seem like it’s going to go away. The more kids you have, the more expensive it can get…
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You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup
You can’t pour from an empty cup. And don’t I know it. The blog has taken a back seat recently, as I have been trying to get my travel business off the ground, whilst simultaneously being a stay-at-home mum. Let’s start there. I vastly underestimated how difficult being a stay-at-home…
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Why I Broke Up With Slimming Clubs…
If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know I have mentioned my struggles with Binge-Eating disorder before. One of the by-products of that is I am significantly over-weight. Even when my binging is on an even keel, due to my size if I want to…
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Old Habits Die Hard: Fighting Against Diet Culture in January
If you have any kind of disordered eating, January is probably the hardest month of the year. Keen to play on the insecurities of the general public and to tie in with the ‘New year, new me’, every type of slimming club, weight loss brand and diet product go hard…
