Not really sure how this blog is going to pan out so am hoping it will naturally find it's way. My days are filled with shopping opportunities and the majority of the time I have an item in my head that I am considering buying.

Christmas is obviously looming which gives me the perfect excuse to buy all sorts of rubbish and vaguely shout "stocking fillas" or "just a little something extra for A" to my husband as the parcels keep arriving. With Amazon dropping their minimum spend to qualify for free delivery to a fiver, I have very little holding me back.

Today I have ordered a Tomy Pop Up Pirate from Amazon for the bargain price of £5.60. We have wanted this for ages but as we already have pop up dragon from ELC found it hard to justify it. Pop up dragon just doesn't work very well tho, it's very hard to tell whether the flags are in or not and sometimes even when you have put all the flags in the dragon still doesn't pop up. It was a real shame as both the kids are quite keen on playing it but it always end up in disappointment.

We have tried Pop up Pirate a couple of times when we have been out and about and it seemed work a lot better with the swords very definately being in to the hilt so my hopes are up again. It would be lovely to have a game that I can play with both my nearly 2 yr old and 4 yr old together.

Will keep you posted.