The Beesley Buzz: June 2015

> The Beesley Buzz: June 2015

GIVEAWAY and Review: Timmy Failure - Now Look What You've Done

Well have we got a treat for you today. If you've got kids who love to read, this set of Timmy Failure books will keep them very happy. And we have a set for you to win by completing the rafflecopter widget. But first, here's what 11 year old J thinks of Timmy Failure. We were...

'You can't buy happiness but you can buy a bag and that's kind of the same thing' #ItsInTheBagBaby

I'm already an ambassador for Pink Lining. Why? Because since I've had my Pink Lining Yummy Mummy changing bag, it has come everywhere with me and I've told everyone about it. Friends have 'oohed' and 'aahed' over how lovely it is. Strangers thinking about buying a Pink Lining...

Siblings - June 2015

For this month's siblings photo, I managed to get a snap of them all together at this year's Open Farm Sunday earlier in the month. We always try to get to a farm for Open Farm Sunday as it's such an educational and fun day out. And as June is J's birthday month, I took the opportunity...

What the Jackdaw Saw - A fabulous new Julia Donaldson book in Association with Life & Deaf

When the lovely people at Macmillan Children's books heard that Miss T had been having a rough time lately with her juvenile arthritis, they kindly sent her a few books to cheer her up. As we LOVE Julia Donaldson's famous rhyming books, we turned to this one first. It's called...

'Life is always better with a closet full of tulle, frills and glitter'

Miss T had a special delivery arrive for her this week. And it was stunning. Perfect for cheering her up after all she's been through in recent months with her diagnosis of juvenile arthritis. I always find I'm short of time when it comes to blogging and so rarely get to write...

A Splatoon kind of Birthday!

J loved Splatoon so much he wanted his birthday cake in a Splatoon style...! It's J's birthday this week. He'll be 11. And on Saturday he had a couple of friends round for a gaming party. We'd only just received the download code a couple of days before that so we kept it a surprise...

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley - new for Nintendo 3DS

We usually like to get to grips with a new game ourselves when we review it but the boys have been totally hogging Harvest Moon:The Lost Valley since we got it so I've had to let J single handedly do the review. Over to J: On Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley you can plant crops...

My top 5 TV dads

Currys PC World have challenged bloggers to come up with their top 5 TV dads in time for Father's Day. You can choose any dad from any current or past TV show. That'll be a breeze, I thought. But when I set about thinking of which TV dads are truly amazing and inspirational,...

Mission 2: Thunderbirds Are Go DVD review

As you may well ave gathered from our previous posts this week, we have been having a F.A.B. time with our Thunderbirds Are Go missions. First we Unboxed our goodies and mission data stick to get started, then we became International Rescue Agents on the Thunderbirds.com website...

Book review: The Silent Hours, by Cesca Major

France, 1952. Adeline, a mute living in a refuge. The Sisters trying everything they can to help understand the history of this woman and unlock the secrets she holds. France, 1940s. Sebastien, a young Jewish banker. His father understands the growing risks to his family in...

Mission 1: Thunderbirds.com website review

No matter how young or old you are, everyone seems to know something about the legendary Thunderbirds. Originally a hit TV series in the 1960s, the Thunderbirds are back with a thrilling new series. The kids had caught a couple of the all-new episodes on citv recently so couldn't...

5...4...3...2...1 Thunderbirds are Unboxed!

We are SO excited to have been asked to be 'Thunderbirds Are Go' bloggers this week in the run up to the release of the DVD of the new Thunderbirds Are Go series on 22nd June. We have been sent two missions to complete by International Rescue and you can see them on our blog over the next couple of days. But first, the 'unboxing' of our Thunderbirds Are Go...

Q&A with Nutritionist Angela Dowden

You may remember a while back we created a recipe using Canderel, our Heaven Scent Polenta cake. Well Canderel loved the recipe and so we got to have a special Q&A session with renowned nutritionist and writer Angela Dowden. These are the questions we asked along with...

Arthritis sucks!

Next week happens to be Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness week (15th-21st June) and you might think that after our light-hearted post about celebrating Iced Tea Day, that I thought it would be appropriate to also highlight something more serious and important. But that's...

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. – Japanese Proverb

There seems to be a 'day' for everything...from World Book Day to Grandparents Day to some brilliant awareness raising days for various medical conditions. Well here's a more unusual one for you. Iced tea day. Tomorrow (10th June) is Iced Tea Day. Yes I know it's not quite as...

Prizes to be won with Lurpak's #FreestyleFood Month

June is Lurpak's Freestyle Food month. I know that we can certainly relate to the boredom that comes with tucking into the same sandwiches for lunch day in day out so it really was time to shake things up a little. So here's our freestyle food creation....A green superfood wrap...

Our first taste of Glamping!

We've just had the most amazing few days away at Manor Farm, one of the locations you can escape to with Featherdown Farms. And 'escape' really is the right word for it as with no electricity we were forced to go without our phones, emails and gadgets and here's the really good...

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