Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
I don’t know about everyone else, but when my boys get their feet in a pair of trainers, they really don’t last for terribly long. The hardwearing ground they pound daily – along with endless hard leather ball kicking takes its toll on cheap trainers, and they tend to last less than a fortnight. [...]
It’s the easiest thing in the world to ignore things in our homes when they begin to start looking a little tired and drab. Our homes should be places that we can relax, unwind and simply get ourselves back into the right frame of mind to move on with the next days, weeks and months [...]
According to my kids, there are no crisps like a Walkers crisp. I suspect it has something to do with the Gary Lineker ads that they think are really funny. The person who designed those should have a gold badge for innovation, long-lasting interest and public approval. With our family history of crisps, who [...]
My kids beds have been changed more often than I’d like. Middler is quite hard on his, and tends to use his as a trampoline, which means a slatted version of any bed is just completely out of the question for us. I think two of my kids are now past the bouncy bouncy stage, although [...]
Waking up coughing, I looked on as the door of my bedroom opened and the most gorgeous man I have ever seen in my life walked in through the door. Dressed all in his fireman togs, I was then completely unaware of the rancid black smoke that wafted around him. The hero of my ten-year [...]
Every parent knows that establishing a regular “bedtime” routine for your kids is far from the easiest task in the world. In her new book Sleep Solutions: Quiet Nights for You and Your Child, celebrity nanny Rachel Waddilove stresses that a regular bedtime routine is absolutely crucial. She provides some useful tips on how to [...]
The thing we do as a family is to go holidaying in the UK. We plan to take a few short breaks in 2013, and we’ve already had one. As caravanners, we appreciate the ability to do as we please, and still have a nice comfy base to go back to when we’re finished [...]
Crafts4kids kindly sent us a Physics Discover Kit from Thames and Kosmos. The Physics Discovery kit is for ages 8+ and has 17 experiments in total where kids can learn physics by making fun models to use at home. There are a whopping 14 models that can be built with the kit we were sent [...]
We took a day trip from the East Coast Scotland at Dornoch, over to the West Coast at Ullapool for a day trip. It took a little longer than expected to get there given that the trip really included a fair hike across some nice high hills. With a rather big 4 x 4, hills [...]
While up visiting Dornoch and the local area, we decided to pop in for an evening meal at the St Duthus Hotel in Tain. If I had to rate the restaurant on effort, decor and friendliness of staff, it would be a five-star all round from the Scottish Mum family. As it was, the food [...]
Thanks to Twentieth Century Fox for this Special Edition review copy of Lego Star Wars -The Empire Strikes Out. Darth Vader LEGO® mini figure unleashes the dark side around London and its landmarks inspired by the DVD, LEGO® Star Wars™: The Empire Strikes Out. (OUT now to buy) Darth Vader has certainly been getting around London recently, [...]
I’ve always spent time with the kids making sure they salt a few pennies away for when they’re older, and I think it’s something that we do tend to do when we have kids. My kids have their wee bank accounts that we opened 7 years ago and they put half of any birthday and Christmas [...]
