Author: Jennifer Aldley

I love going in to our local toy shop.  It has become very famous and extremely well respected because it turns out they were the very first reatailer in the UK and possibly the world, to buy and stock a…

The summer holidays are rapidly approaching and there are the usual moans from parents about the cost of entertaining the children.  The toy shops are full of fab hot weather gear like paddling pools and a myriad of play eqipment…

How amazing it is to see a president of the USA who has a wife young and vibrant enough to resemble the very best of the teenage doll era.  Yes, we do indeed have the Cindy of the First Lady…

At the country house that I help out at regularly, there are rooms set out in various eras, so that the visitor isn’t faced with room after room set in say, the Victorian or Georgian period.  There is the library,…

Games, puzzles and entertainment of every size shape and design.  That is the beauty of the simple idea of childrens’ toys.  It can and does cover the most vast array of products and testing out some has been an absolute…

My word it’s been a truly hectic few weeks – I’ve had contact with a couple of young babies, something that I’ve not had the joy of for some years until a great neice arrived last year, and a neighbour’s…

Well who would have thought that one little baby girl in the family could cause such a massive buying frenzy amongst the very kind but overly doting old aunts!  The problem is that baby was born only a month after…

Unless you have a baby join the family for christmas, you really cannot imagine the amount of fuss and organisation that goes into making sure you have everything for them.  We have such a being in our midst – in…

I was helping out at a street fair recently.   To inject some interest in the the locality, the town council has made a change to the annual Christmas lighting up ceremony.  This time we didn’t just hover round the…

On a recent visit to london town, my daughter and I spent several hours wandering aound one particularly gorgeous emporium of historical relevance.  It has the most spectacular christmas decorations – in fact a whole floor is dedicated to its…