Emma Archive

I thought I’d share something a little bit different for this weeks #CheckOutThatView photo. As much as I’d love to say I’m in a hot country, swimming with sharks and taking photos from an underwater camera, I wasn’t. I do still think …

Marina D’Or Holiday Town We were very lucky this October half term to be taken for a week to the Spanish resort of Marina D’Or which is north of Valencia. The town is a purpose built holiday resort which markets itself as …

As our family are becoming more accustomed to frequent travel, my oldest daughter, Bunny, is wanting to learn more and more about the World and about places we might potentially visit one day. The more she learns about other countries, the more …

Somewhere between twins club and doing my big food shop, my toddler twins and I, needed some lunch. We were particularly hungry from a busy morning and a sandwich wouldn’t cut it. I needed a break from my frequent pastry habit and …

Today, me and the twins drove 55 miles from Gloucester to Kenilworth, near Coventry, to search for the Free Radio Phantom, in the hope of bagging ourselves a life changing £4000. I realise to some, £4000 is not life changing, but to us, …

The weather might have been dismal, cold and blowing a gale. We might have got there so late on a Sunday afternoon that the fun park had closed and there was not much left to do. I may have been tired and …

Believe it or not, I have not actually used any editing software or applied any filters to turn this photo to Black and White. Nor did I use my camera in manual mode. I simply used the auto setting on my DSLR …

The media fuelled glamour of emigration and renovation during the early noughties has a lot to answer for! Caught up in the dream of escaping the rat race of London and its suburbs, I unwittingly ended up “chatelaine” of a semi-renovated 19thCentury …

For this week’s #CheckOutThatView I am going to share a photo I took at the top of Adrenaline Quarry, shortly before myself, my husband and our daughter (then 6 year’s old) jumped off the cliff down the zip line. This was in …

 Author Bio Messed Up Mum is a parenting, lifestyle and beauty blog. I am a 26yo recently single parent of one, my baby boy Josh born May 2013. I blog openly and honestly about the trials and tribulations I face in day …