I love writing these posts looking back over the previous month, it’s my diary of memories. So here is what we enjoyed in July. The months seem to be speeding away this year. July has been a hectic month as usual in our household. I took two weeks off annual leave from my day job. (I don’t know why I’m calling it my day job as blogging and freelance writing is also my day job now. Maybe I should call it my second job?) Mr B had one week off, and in that week we did lots of things and had some amazing day’s out.
My older sister was over from Canada for a couple of weeks so we spent some lovely time together and explored Poldhu Cove. This post is the first of my exploring Cornwall series in which we are going to discover more of what Cornwall has to offer. Going back to my big sis, with her job, she travels a lot of the US and Canada. She has been to places such as Maine, Sacramento, Las Vegas, and Seattle. She’s always wanted to head down to Texas with her friends, they could even go all out and get a photo booth rental Fort Worth for a party.

At the start of July, we celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary. My MIL looked after the girls so Mr B and I got a morning by ourselves. We went for a walk on the beach and had a lovely meal. That we could eat in peace and not in a rush to get out of there!

We spent a family day out in Devon. Visiting Diggerland was a fantastic day out. the weather was hot, it was quiet and we more or less had the whole place to ourselves. It was great fun on the diggers and dumper trucks.

After Diggerland we went over to the new IKEA in Exeter. This was my first experience of IKEA as they have always been so far away from us. We had some lunch, trying the meatballs of course! and then set off around the vast store looking at ideas for our home.
I couldn’t believe how affordable it is. We designed our new wardrobes and I got myself a desk to work at. As well as bits and bobs for around the house. It’s my new favourite place for sure.
L finally got to have her preschool injections, after we had to cancel them from the month before when she was sick all over the Dr’s waiting room! She didn’t even flinch. I was so proud of her. She’s coming on so well at her nursery. She’s listening now and not running around all the time, all the trouble we had with her at the start with not wanting to go, is behind us. In fact, she would go every single day if she could!
Little Dottie is going through a little madam phase as I call it! She’s a nightmare to get to sleep some nights. She’s hard to put down for a nap. She doesn’t want to be changed, sit in her high chair or the car seat.
I’ve been super busy the last few months setting up a couple of new websites, Socially Rach and Home in the Pastures. I’ve been wanting to start these websites for a year or so, but never really got anywhere with them. So you know me, super busy doing everything always at once decided to get my backside in gear. They are live now, might only have one post on each one, but it’s a start! If you are looking to start a blog, I will be writing how-to tips over on Socially Rach. The home, garden and outdoors life will be over on Home in the Pastures.
What we’ve looked at this month
We’ve taken part in a Twitter party showing our Blume Dolls, Little Dottie has been showing everyone her new ride – The Little Red Rider, and we’ve been painting with Little Brian paint sticks. The weather has been amazing so we’ve spent lots of time outside.
We discovered these really useful Bubble Savers for protecting the bottle of bubbles. No more bubbles being tipped away by accident. They are a genius design and I recommend for all mums. We’ve all had tears from spilled bubbles. The wand easily slips in the top, but no loss of bubble mixture.
We have also had a really good look at these exciting collectible’s from Teamsterz – Micro Motorz.
It’s in a blind bag where you reveal a cool sticker which alludes to the team you are about to reveal, then it’s onto the three chambers.

Twist and snap off the first chamber and you’ll find a new tool that works with your car along with a leaflet all about the Micro Motorz collection.
Open chamber two to unwrap a cool tuning accessory, maybe it’s a new engine or perhaps a new spoiler to add some downforce. There’ll also be a launcher to send your vehicle speeding down your chosen race track.
Finally, it’s chamber three – in here you’ll find out what vehicle you’ve got to add to your collection as well as an awesome display capsule that clicks together with the other Micro Motorz. This capsule will also act as a launcher to send your car speeding away. There are 20 different Micro Motorz to collect in the first series.
These are fantastic collectibles for kids, with many surprises, great for the Summer holidays.
I hope you had a good month. Did you get up to anything nice?
Thanks for stopping by today and reading what we enjoyed in July.

my daughter would love these
Thanks for the great prize and competition. Good luck everyone!
My grandchildren would love these!
Great for my son
These look the perfect little treat.
Perfect for the last week of summer 🙂
my son would love this
perfect for my daughter Ava
Wonderful giveaway, thank you, any little boy would love it, i know mine would
These look like lots of fun. Thank you so much for the chance to win.
Great review. My kids are car mad so these would be a win in my house.
Fantastic Prize, love to win for my grand children especially with another on the way 🙂
My god son will love these.
My youngest grandson would love this wonderful prize
id love this for my nephew
My daughter Sheriah would love this
My son would really love thesse
These are perfect for kids
These look fun, my daughter is obsessed with blind bags
What a super prize. Thank you for doing this.
My son would love this
Wow what a great prize!
We love going to diggerland too!
My grandson would be thrilled if I win these fore him
looks like great FUN yes please count me in
Always needing extra bags these will do
these bags look fab for my daughter and her best friend!
Everybody loves a surprise, always nice to not know what to expect
Be great 2 win for the kids
Be great for my 2 little ones
These are great it is so fun and exciting buying blind bags to see what mystery figure you get
lovely for my son fingers crossed 😀
Lovely blog post, we went to Portsmouth in July, it was lovely!
Great prize – big fans of collectable stuff! 🙂 Thanks for running this giveaway
id love to win for my daughter
Perfect for the kids to play and stop from getting bored.
I had never heard of blind bags but my granddaughter tells me they are the in thing!
This would be great for my nephew
Sounds like a great July, enjoy the Summer
These look so cool – why couldn’t these be about when I was young!
My little grandson loves these thanks for the chance to win some
My 2 youngest sons would love this.
Perfect summer fun for my two boys!
Nice to see other people shop at ikea, whilst their goods are very reasonable, everytime I go I end up with trolley full of things I think I need
They look like great fun and easy to take anywhere would love to win for my son ❤️
My grandson loves cars of any description but especially micro motorz he loves the speed they can go
My son George would love this 💙🤞
My granddaughter adores Blind Bags and tells me they are her favourite thing.
Perfect summer fun for the boys
Looks like you had a very good month! We went to Lisbon and looked after my niece for a week which we loved
my nephews would love this