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Lego 10263 – Winter Village Fire Station

Lego 10263 – Winter village fire station is part of the Creator Expert range and is also part of the yearly winter set release, this was 2018 version, they are normally around for almost the year but do go very rare and highly sort after, much like the rest of the Expert ranges. It has 1166 pieces and 6 mini-figures ( though there’s a baby and a statue Minifigure so maybe 8), its retail prices are £84.99 which means being an own branded item (not licensed) you get far more pieces for your buck.… View Post

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Mince pies 2019 | A Dad Review

Mince pies 2019 | A Dad Review

Mince Pies are great! I have had them for years, ever since I was little where I would warm them up and put sugar on top. (times change). Every year I look forward to eating them and this year was no different, but what was different, as I was restricting myself to just December! Which you might think is odd but normally I tuck in the way before then.… View Post

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Loot Crate – Cosmic

Loot Crate – Cosmic

Loot Crates are a selection of items themed and sent to you either each month, or a once-off, or whenever. They vary in themes from regular ones for subscriptions or common brands like Harry Potter or Marvel, to special limited boxes like LOTR or Star Wars. These can take a while to deliver so please bear this in mind, every order I’ve ever placed has been delayed by weeks and months.… View Post

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Our Love Of Christmas Decorations.

Our Love Of Christmas Decorations.

I love doing Christmas decorations! I love having them all over the house! so for me, this is a great time of year. Much like Halloween, I try to make an effort with the event so I try to plan, reuse, and look for offers in the sales once it Xmas was over.… View Post

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My Top 5 Lego Sets for Xmas 2019

My Top 5 Lego Sets for Xmas 2019

The Top 5 Lego sets often appears in Toy lists, all year round, but especially at Xmas, and for many this is a good way to determine what’s good and what’s not. The same can be said in the Lego community and AFOL, they also have opinions on what sets are good, what’s not, what’s expensive, what a waste of money, what figures it has, doesn’t have etc… so with all these opinions, it can be difficult to determine what’s best. But if I was buying Lego this year with what’s currently out there and I hadn’t owned any sets, here’s my little list.… View Post

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Advent Calendars

Advent Calendars

As a family we have enjoyed Advent Calendars for many years, when Boo and I were first together before the kids we didn’t have them much, just a small chocolate one each, but to be honest it was just a way of having chocolate. Then as we had kids we, started to look more in detail and invest in Advent Calendars, just to add to the fun of Xmas.… View Post

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Coast to Coast – A Dads Dinner Review

Coast to Coast – A Dads Dinner Review

Coast to Coast is an UK-based American style restaurant, that’s part of The Restaurant Group, which also owns Frankie & Benny’s, and Chiquito. The one we visited was based in Norwich and we took advantage of the Meerkats Meals 2 for 1. … View Post

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Bricklive 2019 – A Dad review

Bricklive 2019 – A Dad review

Bricklive is an event held during the year that celebrates all things Lego, these are held in big cities like London and Birmingham, They have been going a few years and have interaction with Lego, shops, and displays.… View Post

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Lego 75957 – The Knight Bus

Lego 75957 – The Knight Bus

Lego 75957, The Night Bus is based on the Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban Film, more so over the Book, and contains 3 Mini Figures and 403 pieces. It portrays Harry being collected on the Night bus with the Driver, Conductor and Shrunken Head in tow. This is the second version of the Bus, the last one came out in 2011 and is considerably different to that one.… View Post

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Birthday Week chaos

Birthday Week chaos

November is a busy time for us, not only is the end of Halloween that we put a lot of effort into. Not only do we launch Xmas in our house! but it’s all three children’s birthday! but a birthday week With Tigger and Roo only being 3 days (4 years) apart, if provides complications. … View Post

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Nespresso – What Xmas gifts are there?

Nespresso – What Xmas gifts are there?

Nespresso is a brand of coffee-based pods, that uses special machines to dispense the coffee, these come in two forms. One is the classic Nespresso Pod and the second is the Vertuo Pods, these are in general designed for larger coffees and have special barcodes on them to determine how to brew them, in the appropriate machine.… View Post