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7 Ways To Travel More Like a Local

Posted on January 30, 2018January 17, 2020 by Emma Reed

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Let’s be honest… Nobody wants to be a stereotypical tourist. You know the kind I mean. The kind that wanders around bumping into small children and animals blinkered by their sprawling maps. The kind that seems to find anything from a town hall to a public toilet worthy of a photo. The kind that you end up unintentionally photobombing as you elbow past them on your way to work. The kind whose bookshelves are littered with seldom-used rough guides and even more seldom used phrasebooks. Yeah. Those guys. Ugh! While nobody wants to be perceived as a clueless outsider fecklessly trying to replicate local life without bothering to absorb the cultural nuances that comprise it, it can also really compromise your holiday. Nobody wants to be a nuisance to the locals, nor do they want to miss out on topographical and architectural gems of the area because they have their faces buried in a map (or, more likely, smartphone). Continue reading “7 Ways To Travel More Like a Local” →

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Ad- gifted. As you all know, eco cleaning has real Ad- gifted. As you all know, eco cleaning has really been on my mind recently and I’ve been making a lot of changes to how we approach this in our home over the last year or so. I don’t want to be using lots of different chemicals, I don’t want more plastic waste and I don’t want to further damage the environment. It’s so hard though isn’t it? Especially as a parent to make changes that will still be easy to do and will ensure that your home definitely is clean enough for everyone. So you can imagine my thoughts when @eclothuk told me I could achieve a spotless home by just using water!! Just water?! I mean I’ll admit I was sceptical but then I knew I also had to see this for myself so I agreed to review a selection of their products. Well... they certainly proved me wrong! 😆 I was completely blown away- as were all of you who were watching my stories. I don’t think I’ve ever received so many messages on product reviews before! Seems like you were all as surprised and also confused as to how these cloths worked like magic. I mean they truly are magical. My house is clean in a flash. I’m not using any chemicals. I can use one cloth for multiple things meaning that I have become slightly obsessed with the e-cloth and will definitely need more of these in my life! I really want to shout from the rooftops that you REALLY can clean with just water. These products are what we all need in order to reduce our waste, to reduce plastic in our homes and landfills and to help the oceans too. My full review is now up over on my blog with plenty of satisfying before and after photos!! #eco #ecofriendly #ecocleaning #cleaning #ecloth #naturalcleaning #natural #nochemicals #greenerliving #ecoblog #ecoblogger #ecomama
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Have I always been a cloth bum mum? No. No I haven Have I always been a cloth bum mum?
No. No I haven’t been. In fact, I only made the switch when my second child was 6 months old. 
When I had my first child just over 6 years ago, I didn’t attend any antenatal classes, I didn’t really know anything about having a baby (I was an animal person, not a baby person!) and I went with products and brands that I had heard of from advertising. I mean you said nappies to me and my mind went to Pampers. I didn’t even look into other disposable brands, I had been brainwashed by ads telling me these were the best and who doesn’t want the best for their new baby?! When standing in the supermarket aisle, I did notice these other nappies that said ‘eco’ on them but I had zero clue what this meant and also had zero clue why you would need an ‘eco’ version. How was I to know that disposable nappies were full of plastic and chemicals? I didn’t. No one mentioned it and the packet certainly didn’t tell me. So, if I had no clue about ‘eco’ brands, I certainly had no clue that cloth nappies existed.
I didn’t know anybody who used them, I wasn’t the best at going to baby groups and when I did, I never saw a cloth nappy at any. Back then, I didn’t really use social media so I also had no fabulous Insta Mums to guide me.
Fastforward a few years and as a blogger I was delving into this online world and discovering so much more about being a mother and what products were on the market. I found that people talked far more openly about how they parented their children and I stumbled across a world of wonderful colourful fluff bums! It was as though everything I had wanted to know the first time around was suddenly right there at my fingertips!
I did want to use cloth with William from day one but as he was born 8 weeks early, I didn’t get the chance to research and buy any and as he was tiny, he could only wear the preemie disposables. I also couldn’t cope with adding anything else new into my life and chose to wait until he was bigger, more developed and when my mind was in a better place. You see, it doesn’t matter when you start with cloth, the important part is that you do what’s right for you at the right time 💚
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The lovely Rosie over at @peachibaby_ has been working hard to set up her new reusable nappy business and we were very lucky to be asked to pick one style to review for her. Well, she didn’t need to ask twice and I’d already eyed up the gorgeous Hare design on her Instagram a few weeks before! All of the designs are hand drawn by artists and they just make these nappies simply gorgeous. 
So, what did we think? First thoughts were on the size. You can immediately see that these aren’t your typical cloth nappies. Not only are they very slimline but they also sit much lower than any other nappy I own. I must admit that at first glance I was dubious about whether it would fit my two year old but after reviewing the fit guidelines I realised that these were very different and I needed to learn and practise how to fit them rather than treating them like I would my other brands. As you can see from this photo, the nappy sits just above William’s bum. It then tucks in nice and neatly around the groin area to give the look of underwear rather than a bulky nappy. He could still move around freely and actually spent around 5-6 hours in this with no leaks!! The absorbency is so high because this nappy comes with an anchor insert (a long insert with one larger end) that folds over to go inside the pocket and then a snap in insert that sits on the top. Looking at all of this you’d think it would pad the nappy out a lot but in actual fact, when fitting the nappy and playing around with the options, I found it sat far better on him with both of these inserts which was a bonus as it provided us with this amazing absorbency. 
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There are sooo many variations that you can do wit There are sooo many variations that you can do with this so it’s more the case of working out what routine works for you really. When researching this (because I like to make sure I get things right) this was the most common option but some people have suggested even leaving the vinegar overnight- not sure I could stand the smell in the morning, but whatever works for you eh! I know some people also make a paste up using vinegar and bicarb but because there’s a lot of suggestions that they actually cancel one another out, I didn’t say to do it this way. As with all these cleaning options, it can all come down to personal choice and experimenting with quantities as well as mixture especially if you have limescale or issues with water marks etc. Really you can’t go very wrong with this natural way of cleaning and if you want to add essential oils to get a pleasant smell you can do this after the clean. Give it a go and see how you get on 😉

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Right I’m over this weather now... I want the su Right I’m over this weather now... I want the summer back, also because we have our holiday booked and are going back to Cornwall which also means back to The Eden Project!! This was taken back in 2015 when Jake was just 18 months old and we haven’t been back since so I cannot wait to see how it’s changed, what else they’ve added and how the boys react to it all. Oh and I’ve promised Rob that I’m going to pay for him to do that giant zip line over the top of it! Have any of you been recently? 
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