A Day Out at the Engine Yard at Belvoir Castle

[Ad- gifted experience] Belvoir Castle is a lovely estate that contains a beautiful gardens and castle itself, which you can explore. Just outside the walking path to the castle, however, you can find The Engine Yard – a collection of smaller, independent specialty shops and places to eat, which provide a really day out. Recently, they have opened their first Estate Farm Shop and a Brasserie at the Engine Yard, which has the aim to showcase local produce from Leicestershire estate, highlighting brands and businesses that are local, to support them further.

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Battle the darkness with a T-Rex Head Torch

[Ad- gifted product] Darkness is something that most kids feel they are afraid of. Often, it’s just a phase, but dealing with fears can be a challenge, especially if your child really, really doesn’t like the dark. There can be a fear that somethign is hiding in the darkness or that the darkness is full of unknowns, which can be unsettling for children. Items like the T-Rex Head Torch can stop the fear of the dark, as it puts a child in control of a torch, that they don’t even need to hold.

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Pretty Suds May 2021 Bath Bomb Box | Review

This month, we have actually moved house! And with moving house, had a bit of an issue when it came to getting all of our addresses updated, so we ended up getting our box quite late in the end. It also took a lot of talking to Pretty Suds‘ customer service, which is delightful and easy to email and communicate with. This theme was “pixels” and as someone who works in games, I was pumped to get the box! As always, this is probably my favorite subscription box and we love adding all of these delicious smelling bath bombs to our bathroom, to be used up on bath days!

Lucky Dip & Bloc Bath Bomb

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An Easy Beach Picnic with Higgidy Savory Food

[Ad- gifted product] Our family simply loves the beach. All three of the children come swimming with us, at least once a week, if not twice after school. The beach seems to be an extension of swimming – but instead of an indoor pool, there is the lovely, ever-changing ocean. Warm sand, birds, waves. They love going to the beach – and thankfully it’s not a very challenging day out for us to set up. We have a beach bag with all of the beach towels, sand toys, and sunscreen we could need. Often, however, we want to make a full day out of it, so we pack a little picnic. This time, that’s where Higgidy came in!

Higgidy is a brand of savory foods – think pies, quiche and sausage rolls, that you can purchase and take along to any sort of picnic. Their aim is to create good quality and yummy foods that can be easily made into a lunch or dinner, that doesn’t take too much effort. It’s not about cooking everything from scratch as an individual, and Higgidy looks to be a reliable place for families to get a quick, delicious and well made meal that won’t take ages to make from scratch. We’ve actually had a few of their vegan products before – enjoying their mushroom and miso rolls (they are so delicious!) quite a few times as a quick and simple lunch. For our picnic, we picked a bunch of different products from our local Tesco.

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On the hunt for Cats vs Pickles plush toys | Review

[Ad- gifted product] Kai, Amelia and Robin do really love cats. We have two cats and a large mix of stuffed cats already, but when the kids got a hold of Cats vs Pickles, they were excited for the fantasy cats with all these different patterns. Kai had previously put on videos of cats doing funny things, so we already knew that cats were afraid of cucumbers. Cats vs Pickles, made by Cepia LLC, takes this concept – cats being afraid of cucumbers and thus afraid of pickles, and turns them into collectible, adorable cats with their own youtube show and mobile game!

Cats vs Pickles Toys

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