Hello all, I wrote this post in early December 2012 but I’m re-posting it because I’ve just realised that there are 3 days left to get 10% off Ski Famille catered chalets in Les Gets and Les Menuires with free …

• Family ski holidays – insane or inspired?

Last Friday, half-delirious at spotting some sunshine in half-term week, I descended on Legoland Windsor with my children, mother and half of Southern England. If you’re planning the same this summer, you’d better read my tips… 1.Call Legoland before you …

• OK, bring out the big guns, it’s PT time
• Drinking tea and eating cake for charity? Oh go on then!
• £600 fashion frenzy with Vestiaire and Curve!!
• Wouldn’t you though?

After my Muddy Awards ended a few weeks back, I packed my bags, pointed my children in the direction of my mother, then laughed hysterically all the way to Stoke Place with Mr Muddy. Stoke Place (not to be confused …

• OK, bring out the big guns, it’s PT time
• Drinking tea and eating cake for charity? Oh go on then!
• £600 fashion frenzy with Vestiaire and Curve!!
• Wouldn’t you though?

Bargain alert! Just to let you know that Ski Famille, the holiday company I wrote about a few weeks back have shown excellent taste (if I say so myself) and have decided to advertise with Muddy Stilettos. Welcome Ski Famille, …

• OK, bring out the big guns, it’s PT time
• Drinking tea and eating cake for charity? Oh go on then!
• £600 fashion frenzy with Vestiaire and Curve!!
• Wouldn’t you though?

  More than anything Mr Muddy loves to ski, and it’s been a source of great irritation to him over the last few years that trivial things like C-sections and eye-watering epidurals have meant my back is not up to …

• Last 3 days to snaffle a great skiing bargain

  More than anything Mr Muddy loves to ski, and it’s been a source of great irritation to him over the last few years that trivial things like C-sections and eye-watering epidurals have meant my back is not up to …

Is there anything better than a weekend away in a fabulous lodge? Er yes, one with a luxury pamper pack thrown in!

• Escape the rat race at Old Farm, Snowdonia

Bore da! I had a fantastic weekend away in North Wales a few weeks ago with Sheepskin Life, a Wheatley-based company with a crack list of lodges and houses, mostly in Wales but others dotted around the Cotswolds, the Peak …

• Sweet dreams

  … Well, that’s not exactly true. There are no painful pine needles to step on as they fall, no tree-top fairy to catch alight when the bulbs blow, no children knocking off your antique baubles and placing their horrendous …

• OK, bring out the big guns, it’s PT time
• Drinking tea and eating cake for charity? Oh go on then!
• £600 fashion frenzy with Vestiaire and Curve!!
• Wouldn’t you though?

You know you need a break from your children when you start rolling your eyes when they ask for impertinent things like more fruit, a book or – don’t push it – a cuddle. And so it came to pass …

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