Reviews

Tactic, a Finnish based game and gift company have recently launched a range of toys based upon a children’s book written by Kati Heljakka. ‘Lumo Stars‘ are nordic animals said to live in a mystical and curious land. We were recently sent three of the ‘Northern Brights plush collection’ from Lumo Stars to share and to review.   The Lumo Stars ‘Northern Brights Plush Toys’ Collection Lumo Stars ‘Northern Brights Plush Toys’ feature a large range of plush animals which are commonly found within Nordic counties, available in a range of sizes and realistic or fantasy based colour options, the …

Did you know that today just so happens to be National Chocolate Cake Day? What better excuse to chow down on the sweet stuff than to dedicate a whole day to chocolate cake? National Chocolate Cake Day To celebrate National Chocolate Cake Day we were sent a rather wonderful selection of goodies from Num Noms. Included within this package was a selection of sweeties from which to create some rather fabulous chocolate cakes. As you may have read in posts published earlier this week our little lady hasn’t been feeling herself and as a result has had a few days …

As a family we are quite into puzzles especially in the jigsaw form. Whilst we are fairly of-fey with 2D puzzles we’ve only ever encountered 3D puzzles once before prior to receiving the ‘Ravensburger Big Ben 3D Jigsaw‘ that we were recently to sent to piece together and to review.   The Ravensburger Big Ben 3D Jigsaw Puzzle The Ravensburger Big Ben 3D Jigsaw Puzzle features 216 individual pieces all of which are made from plastic and are fairly sturdy to work with. The puzzle measures 41cm in height when complete and is in actual fact a scale model of …

As a member of the ‘Blogger Board Game Club’ each month I am sent a game to play, review and to share with my readers. This month we were sent the international award-winning game ‘Pandemic’.   Pandemic – A Cooperative Game Designed by Matt Leacock and published by Z-Man Games, Pandemic is a cooperative game which all players work to win or lose together, this is a rather new concept for our household as over the years we have grown accustomed to board games being a battle against one and other. Pandemic is suited for two to four players aged eight …

Those of you that know me well or read my blog regularly will no doubt know that I suffer with OCD. It’s not something which I talk about regularly but it’s a part of my life which I deal with on a daily basis both in and out of the house. As you can imagine I like to keep things fairly organised and clean even when I happen to have a fractured elbow and be wearing a sling, I’ll still push myself to vacuum, polish and generally spruce up the house otherwise I simply cannot rest or relax. I’ve never …