The Beesley Buzz: July 2016

Let's get drawing with Disney Art Academy

Our kids love to draw, from Miss T's doodles through to D's fantastic creations of characters and worlds. He has recently been drawing characters from books and films, too, so what better way to develop that creativity than with a bit of help from the new Disney Art Academy for...

Capture the Flag with Percy Jackson

In case you hadn't already spotted, 10-year old D loves reading. And reading. And reading. He has recently been reading Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, which he completely loves, and he has been busy explaining the story to me. So you can imagine his delight when we...

Faster - Higher - Stronger: Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

It's hard to believe that it just four years ago that the country was caught up in Olympic fever as the Games came to London. Back then J loved playing Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games - so much so that he was desperate to get his hands on the latest Rio 2016 version....

Make a new best friend with Teddy Together!

Miss T was beside herself with excitement when we told her we had a new game for the Nintendo 3DS just for her - and Teddy Together has become a firm favourite over the past few weeks. Her older brothers have been getting into the game, too, as they've been helping her learn how...

Return to the Isle of the Lost - Book Review

Return to the Isle of the Lost is the second Disney Descendants novel, The Isle of the Lost being the prequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants. The Isle of the Lost novel by Melissa De La Cruz spent a whopping thirty-seven weeks on the New York Times best seller...

WIN a dream holiday with Silentnight (and read on for a GIVEAWAY to win a set of pillows and duvet from Silentnight)

Silentnight have done a survey into holidays, to launch their Dream Holiday promotion with the chance to win a dream holiday along with many more prizes like iPads, bikes and experience days. Look out for promotional stickers on selected Silentnight Duvets and Pillows in participating...

Homemade white chocolate from Clean Cakes

I've totally fallen in love with the Clean Cakes recipe book - The day after I got it I made the Blueberry lemon mousse cake and since then I seem to be working my way through as many of the recipes as I can. It has begun to feel a bit like a 'bake along' Julie and Julia...

My cushion dilemma

Evans Lichfield, the British family-run home furnishings business that has been going since 1988, got in touch recently to ask if we'd like to review one of their cushions. They work with a host of in-house artists as well as British artists to create their designs, with a wide...

Confessions of a summer parent...The summer when rain reigned!

Summertime...birds singing, bees buzzing, long relaxing summer days with children playing happily in the sunshine. That's what happens in summer, right? WRONG! Being a parent is tough at times and even more so when there's a six week long stretch of summer holidays ahead of you..... It's...

Weddings, Weather and Wimbledon - A resolution that's taken 17 years to happen!

This year is our 17th wedding anniversary. What on earth has that got to do with Tennis I hear you ask. Well 17 years ago was the last time that we played tennis. It was on our honeymoon in Zante in the hot August heat and all the locals thought we were crazy to be playing...

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