How can you make moving house easier? I have yet to meet anyone who has reported a smooth and stress free move, but you never know it might just be possible. We moved house last week and when I say last week I really mean week. We started packing up our old house on Saturday and finally completed our sale and relinquished the keys to our old house on Friday. What a palaver! Late on Wednesday afternoon when one of our wonderful team of removal men brought the thirty fifth box of books up the steps and into the new place, I couldn’t help thinking it would have been a lot easier if we were simply moving a wooden dolls’ house rather than a home filled with many years’ worth of (what seemed like at the time) treasured possessions. Continue reading
Wooden Toys For Girls
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Roll up your sleeves and get busy
There comes a time in your life when you have to take a deep breath, roll up your sleeves, count to ten and then fix something. I remember my friends saying to me when we were students, “You can’t go through life never having wired a plug!†Well actually, I think you probably can avoid that particular task these days, but every now and then a floor board needs screwing down, a paint job needs touching up or a bannister spindle (it has happened to me) needs replacing. Whenever I am scratching about under the stairs trying to find my tool box, I think about how much I would have appreciated a Melissa and Doug workbench as a little boy. Continue reading
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New Wooden Toys from Bigjigs
Here at WoodenToyShop we are huge fans of Bigjigs toys and we are always excited when the new catalogue arrives in the office. We get even more excited when a delivery arrives at our warehouse, which is what happened on Friday last week. We hope you will enjoy the following highlights from our new selection of wooden toys from Bigjigs. Continue reading
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More new Wooden Toys from Le Toy Van
Welcome to our second look at the new toys due in over the next few months from Le Toy Van. If your children love farm toys, then read on, as we have what we think of as some very special new toys which can fit together to form one deluxe wooden Giant Farm toy. On the other hand, if your little ones prefer play food and baking toys, then we have a couple of crackers for your delectation. Continue reading