April 2016

Little House of Hackney x La Coqueta Collaboration

If ever there was a summer shirt made for T-Rex, it is this one from the new Little House of Hackney x La Coqueta collaboration.  Described as a shirt for smart and stylish boys with a wild side and featuring the signature bold Palmeral print, this is, without a doubt, going to be the most coveted holiday shirt during our forthcoming trip to the Balearics. If you don’t know House of

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Hip Holiday Mama in the Maldives – Noya Bebawi

Noya is the founder of kids beachwear brand Beanie & Bear and mum to gorgeous kiddies Beanie & Bear who the company is named after. In between work and being a mum she loves to spend time travelling and scouring the globe for the perfect cocktail! What makes your ideal family holiday? I would have normally said that sun and sea were a must, but we started having an annual skiing

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Ho Chi Minh City With A Three Month Old

We took our three month old to Vietnam.  Sounds crazy but it was actually one of the easier holidays we had with our portable, non-moving, always sleeping, breast-feeding bean.  We visited Ho Chi Minh City during Tết – the Vietnamese new year.  Going to Vietnam during this time with a baby wasn’t a strategic move but it turned out to be hugely advantageous due to there being less people and therefore less pram vs people struggles on

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Hip Holiday Mama in Venice – Camille Hallo

Camille is mum to Valentine (9) and Balthazar (6) and founder of the children’s party design company, A Little Party Box. In between work and being a mum she spends time travelling back to Paris where she is from and daydreaming a lot! What makes your ideal family holiday? Perfect family holidays would be a sunny beach you can walk to, from a large house filled with friends, children, a nanny

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Monpe – The Ultimate Travel Trouser

  I officially christen these Monpe trousers ‘The Ultimate Travel Trouser’.  I have had my eye on Monpe trousers for a while and am so excited to finally get my hands on a pair.  Monpe are traditionally a work trouser from Japan and are the regarded as the ‘Japanese Jean’.  I have been wearing mine for approximately twenty minutes and I am totally in love with them already – they

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10 Not-Too-High-Waisted Bikini Bottoms

I have been debating this season’s high-waisted bikini bottoms with my mum pals.  The consensus is, there are pros and cons. In theory they are ideal for a more voluptuous figure – ample coverage around tummy with the bonus of maybe covering up a scar, enough material at the back to be a bum lifter and best of all you can pretend you are a hot 1950’s siren on the

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The Happy Hotel – Cowley Manor, Cotswolds

  I realise that many of my posts start with “pre-child I used to like…” followed by some reminiscing about life before T-Rex.  This is because things have changed for me since having a child and it’s not all been for the worse (which might sometimes be construed). Whereas before I had definite ideas about what I did and didn’t want, now I am much more flexible (largely due to

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