It’s nearly six months since Tin Box Tot began to speak and we’ve just reached an exciting milestone. She can now say ‘caravan’. Hurray! Every time a new word has popped out of TBT’s mouth we have been recording it using Pinterest. Well, most of them anyway. There are some words, like ‘up’, ‘out’ and…
I love my blog. It’s my little corner of the internet where I can record the things I’m passionate about. It has grown from a creative outlet that I dabbled with in between nappy changes and feeds to somewhere I can share experience and advice. More than anything I have fun with it. That’s why…
Wedding invites have come in thick and fast this year. We’ve been to one in Sweden, another in Dorset and one in Devon. The last two were one weekend after the other, so we decided to hitch up Tin Box and turn our attendance into a wedding tour. Rock pooling between weddings It all began…
It’s been a long time since Mr Tin Box and I went on a holiday that didn’t involve towing our own bedroom to our chosen destination. However, this summer we had the perfect excuse. Friends had just moved to Sweden and were getting married, so we decided to abandon our caravan and join them for…
There’s just one month left until our first family holiday abroad. It all became a bit more real for me last week when I took a trip to Manchester with work. While sitting on the plane, flicking through the inflight magazine, I realised the next time I flew would be with an 18-month-old sat on…
It’s pictures like this that remind me why we work so hard to afford special time with our little Tin Box family at the weekends. All the early mornings and late nights are worth it when you can share the experience of kicking off your shoes and dipping your toes in the sand with friends…
There’s been a bubble explosion in the Tin Box household. Every cupboard and surface has been accessorised with bottles, wands and machines full of sticky liquid. And it’s all in honour of Tin Box Tot’s first proper word: bubble. Grandmas must also bend to Tin Box Tot’swill when it comes to bubbles It came out…
Like all mums, I juggle a lot of balls. In fact I have started to wonder what I used to do with my time before I became a parent. The hours of my week are now gobbled up by my part-time job in PR, a little bit of freelance work to top up the pennies,…
Someone has been paying their dues to the weather Gods as we’ve been enjoying some scorching trips away recently. Last weekend we pitched up on a rally at Newbury Rugby Club. The rally had been organised to coincide with the Summer Solstice and some of our more enthusiastic neighbours were up to see dawn on…
When I say training, I don’t necessarily mean for the dogs. When Mr Tin Box and I first discussed bringing a dog into our lives, we had a lot of very grown up conversations. Could we give a dog enough attention? Would we miss the freedom of last minute holidays? Did we have a big enough garden?…