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MOVING OUT OUT! 10 top tips to find your dream home in the country

It’s official. After 10 amazing years in London, we’re finally calling time on city life and (next week!) will be moving out of the Big Smoke for a fresh start in the country.  It’s not that we’ve fallen out of love with London though (we’ll miss you terribly)…we’ve just outgrown it.  After having Teddy last year, our two bed flat…

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PARENT MONEY SAVING TIPS: Relax, recharge and you could save thousands of £££ in the process!

There’s no two ways about it. Having kids is bloody expensive. The bills start racking up before they’re even born, as you fill your home with random pieces of (usually) bulky and (always) expensive baby kit that everyone says you SIMPLY MUST have (but which, invariably, they grow out of within a matter of months). Then, once they arrive, while…

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Winter is coming…let the marital battle over the thermostat commence!

I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing quite like the changing of the seasons and the arrival of cold weather to create a bit of marital disharmony in our house. You see, while my wife is one of those ‘constantly cold’ people, who carries around a hot water bottle for 10 months of the year and would have our…

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Why I have nightmares about losing all our family photos (and what I’m finally doing about it)

It’s one of those jobs that’s constantly at the top of my ‘To Do’ list. But for some reason it just never gets done; backing up all the photos of Teddy since the day he was born. We literally have thousands. So many, that we’ve now maxed out the storage on both of our laptops and phones, and been forced to…

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Could hygge reduce the stress of life with a new baby?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you’ll be familiar with hygge, the untranslatable Danish concept of cosiness and quality time that’s been sending lifestyle bloggers into a frenzy for longer than I care to remember. But while many of us hard-nosed Brits (myself included) may think of ourselves as too busy and too sceptical to…

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