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Thank You to The Little Health Company

September 24, 2015 by elizaflynn

Top 25 health and fitness bloggers - eliza flynn

If it wasn’t enough that I’m having a fab time on my megamoon (writing whilst sitting on the idyllic Gili Meno, dressed in harem pants and a sarong that I’ve fashioned into a top) I have also been included in the Little Health Company’s ‘Top 25 UK Bloggers To Follow’ list. I got so excited…

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Filed Under: FITNESS, FOOD Tagged With: fitness, healthy living London

4 Steps for Summer

June 30, 2014 by elizaflynn 1 Comment

4 steps for summer - sw4 fitness boxing lesson

When festivals start springing up like pop-up tents, you know summer has truly arrived. It brings that delightful festival feel that is accompanied by too many jugs of sickly Pimms, fruity cider, balmy evenings standing outside London pubs, flowers in your hair, picnics and BBQs. Get into the vibe with my 4 steps for summer:…

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Filed Under: FITNESS, FUN Tagged With: fitness, food, fun things to do in London, snack happy, summer

Week 02 of Beginner’s Ballet at City Academy

June 11, 2014 by elizaflynn Leave a Comment

Ballet Shoes - beginners ballet at City Academy

I was a little concerned before I turned up to my second week of Beginners Ballet at City Academy; not only was Adrian off sick but I’d gotten rained on and a flat tyre on my bike. I was also late. However, it wasn’t all doom and gloom because not only had the ache in…

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Filed Under: FITNESS, FUN Tagged With: ballet, fitness, fitness review, fun things to do in London, healthy living London

Get Your Racket for Tennis Tuesdays

June 9, 2014 by elizaflynn Leave a Comment

Eliza Flynn with Tennis Tuesdays

Hands up who used to play tennis as a kid? Hands up who have been thinking about getting some friends together for a knockabout? Well think no longer and JUST DO IT. You have no excuses, especially as Nike and the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) recently launched Tennis Tuesdays across London. Offering exclusive women-only tennis…

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Filed Under: FITNESS Tagged With: fitness, fitness review, healthy living London, summer sports, tennis

Week 01 of Beginner’s Ballet at City Academy

June 4, 2014 by elizaflynn Leave a Comment

Beginner's Ballet at City Academy London Logo

The thing I was most excited about? Ballet shoes and The Barre. My relationship with ballet ended promptly when I was twelve; the secondary school I moved to didn’t offer it and thinking back, I didn’t even notice that ballet was off the menu. My memories of ballet are a mix of pain (wide-pronged Kirby…

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Filed Under: FITNESS, FUN Tagged With: ballet, fitness, fitness review, fun things to do in London, healthy living London

Swimming IS FUN: A Guest Blog

May 31, 2014 by elizaflynn Leave a Comment

Dan Millington - swimming is fun

Swimming. It’s splashy, hard work and the lesson that most school kids tried to avoid, usually with forged sick letters. However, these are memories from childhood. Surely swimming’s different now? Dan Millington discusses. For the vast majority of people, the very smell of a swimming pool conjures memories of either having to wear embarrassingly revealing swimming…

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Filed Under: FITNESS Tagged With: fitness, healthy living London, swimming

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Eliza Flynn Blogger and personal trainer

I learnt the hard way that good health involves diet, exercise and a peaceful mind. I use my experience to help people feel more confident, in control and fitter. As well as being a pre & post-natal personal trainer and founder of The Warrior Method, a unique style of training, I also enjoy travelling and my curious little HB (Hungry Bear).

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Arthur: Mummy, I’m going to tell you a joke. Why Arthur: Mummy, I’m going to tell you a joke. Why did the elephant go to the river?
Me: Er. Because he needed a swim?
*silence from A as he processes what I’ve just said - I start to think he didn’t actually have a joke and I might have just told the punchline…*
Arthur (eventually): No! Because he needed to wash!

I laugh because it’s just so crap.

Arthur: Was it funny?
Me: No.

Me: Ok, I’ll tell you a joke (I have 2 jokes that I know and both are terrible.) What’s orange and sounds like a carrot?
Arthur: *confused thinking face*
Me: A parrot!

We all laugh, me the most because it’s a spectacularly good joke.

Arthur: My turn! What’s orange and sounds like a carrot?!
Me: I’m pretty sure this isn’t going to be a joke but… I cannot possibly imagine, what’s orange and sounds like a carrot?
Arthur: A carrot!
Me: 🙄

Hector: Jokes are BORING!

Anyone else’s kids just not get jokes yet?

#boymumlife #cherishthemoments  #inbeautyandchaos #documentyourdays #mumofboys #badjokes #kidsjokes #ohheymamas #motherhood #our_everyday_moments #ukmum #mummymoments #ourlifeinsquares #mummybloggersuk
Yesterday afternoon was something out of my worst Yesterday afternoon was something out of my worst nightmare. I’d resigned myself to several hours stuck on the sofa acting as pillow and slave to a sick Hector after having had to pick him up from nursery due to a temperature, and said goodbye to all hopes of making it to the first session of a baby massage course.

H was sad and grim but not sick enough for me to have to do anything aside from stick the telly on. He even ate lunch. The boys’ dinner time is where it all went tits up.

Imagine the scene. Arthur eating spag bol. The baby wrestling a boob (is it too early to start teething?!) Me spooning pasta into Hector’s open mouth.

THEN SUDDENLY Hector throws his hands over him mouth and bits of vomit spray out the sides as I move like I have never moved before and shove a cooking bowl into his face. I’m holding the bowl in place on Hector’s lap with one foot while also trying to put a screaming baby somewhere safe from the literal fountain of puke which is gushing out his mouth AND nose. Of course, I’m gagging and retching and trying to avoid Hector’s sicky hands which are reaching for me. Yup. Just when my child needs me most, I refuse to let him touch me.

Im actually horrified. Puke is my worst nightmare. And I had a giant bowl of it in my hands and a vom-covered child clawing for my attention over the screams of a baby who was wondering why he’d been so rudely wrenched from the boob and thrown into his bouncer. 

I eventually managed to compose myself enough to haul Hector into the shower and clean him up enough that I felt safe giving him cuddles without encountering random chunks. Annoyingly, by the time Tom had arrived back, summoned by my  frantic SOS SAVE ME FROM THIS PUKE call, the situation was under relative control and I’d even stopped retching.

Of course, Arthur remained absolutely unfazed by this whole situation and continued to stuff his face while eyeing us disinterestedly.

Love parenthood! ☺️

#realparenting #mumhood #mumofthree #mumofboys #londonmum #saveme #ukmum #cherishthemoments #mommymoments #stopdropandmom #thatmomlife #lifewithlittles #messy_motherhood
Happy Father’s Day 💕 To the Daddy who never s Happy Father’s Day 💕 To the Daddy who never shouted at us because his ‘serious’ voice was terrifying enough 🤣, who has always been there on the end of the phone whenever I’ve needed advice, who tells the most fabulous stories, and gives the best hugs.

#happyfathersday #loveyoudaddy #daddysgirl
“I’m going to love you and kiss you and hug yo “I’m going to love you and kiss you and hug you forever!” Hector is essentially Elmyra Duff from Looney Tunes. He LOVES Caspian with such ferocity that it’s terrifying. As are his boisterous attempts to pick him up 😱

I feel like Caspian is after the quiet life. And that he’d like nothing more than to peacefully contemplate life. Instead, there’s a Hector lying in wait for Mummy to put the baby down somewhere, so he can yell HELLO BABY in his face, cover him in wet kisses and pump his arms and legs like he’s an almost empty hand sanitiser bottle 🙄

I think the last photo sums up their relationship quite nicely ☺️

#6weeksolds #myboys #realmotherhood #capturethemoments #babybrother #fancydress #playgroundfun #swingtime #babyswing #brothers
“The best day EVER!” yelled Arthur! This shin “The best day EVER!” yelled Arthur!

This shiny star won FIVE coconuts at the coconut shy at the Highbury church summer fair today. He had a victory dance, kissed his hairy coconuts, and then had to negotiate with the stall holder about whether he should take home any more coconuts if he has more goes. In the end, he was allowed to play (and take home any winnings) if he threw from where the adults had to stand 🤣

Won’t lie, I was quite proud ☺️ But now we have 3 coconuts - to eat… any suggestions for what to do with them? (We gave 2 away - there’s only so many nuts I can deal with in the house).

#lifewithboys #mumofboys #highburyandislington #highburymums #islingtonmums #summerfair #highbury #coconutshy #summerdays #victory #boymumlife #londonmum
It happened. I’ve lost my position on the Hector It happened. I’ve lost my position on the Hector League Table. For the last 4 years, I’ve been above @tjjgash …

H: “Why does it have to be a Daddy bedtime?”
Me: “Don’t you like Mummy bedtimes anymore?”
H: “Not so much.”

————

Arthur: “Mummy, Hector prefers Daddy now.”
Me: “Lovely. Who do you prefer?”
Arthur: “I like you both.” (Ever the diplomat!)

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H: “I don’t want you to die but if Daddy dies I’ll be REALLY sad.” (Goodness knows why he was thinking about such a morbid topic… Maybe he knew I was close to strangling him because of all these wonderful comments… 🤔

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Mummy walks into the room. No reaction.
Daddy comes home. “DAAAAAAAAADDDY….” And H flings himself at him.

*sigh*

At least with Caspian, he has to love me because I’m the one with the boobs… 🤣

#motherhoodunplugged #mumofboys #motherhoodintheraw #mumofthree #thingskidssay #sadtimes #messymotherhood
Little vandals! Popped into the @vandalkids_london Little vandals! Popped into the @vandalkids_london pop-up at @oldspitalfieldsmarket yesterday for a morning of @artplaylondon spray painting, tote-bag personalisation and corgi decorating. After having been forbidden from even touching the spray paints I have, Arthur was pretty excited to actually have a go.

Hector shunned all the activities and instead lay on the floor, ate snacks and played with the dog.

Vandal Kids are a new kids clothing brand which are all about clothes they can play in without getting wrecked. We bought a couple of short sleeved hoodies which are waterproof, wind proof and stain proof on the front and hood which will definitely help with the longevity of their clothes. I have high hopes that these will remain one of the few bits of clothing the boys have which aren’t stained from paint, dirt and goodness knows what else 🙄

Now if only they did these in adult sizes… 😃

#vandalkids #messyplay #graffiti #artplaylondon #whattodowithkids #creativekids #spitalfields #londonkids #creativeplay #mumofboys #londonmum #daysoutwithkids #mumofthree #ukmummy
This is Hector at 31 days old. Caspian at 32 days This is Hector at 31 days old.
Caspian at 32 days old.
And Arthur at 32 days old.

So far, Caspian has the best cheeks, Arthur has the chunkiest legs and Hector wins the prize for most looking like Mr Burns 🤣

Do you think they look like brothers?

#mumofboys #threeboys #outnumbered #thirdtrimester #5weeksold #babyboy #babiesofinstagram #throwback #motherhood #capturethemoment #holdthemoments
Nailing Big Brother duties. Although he got bored Nailing Big Brother duties.

Although he got bored and forgot he was holding him and poor Caspian nearly slid off his lap 🙈

#bigbrother #mumofboys #caspian #hellobaby #newbornlife #motherhoodunplugged #cherishthemoments #londonmum #parentingreality #babycuddles
Might have been overdoing it recently… thought I Might have been overdoing it recently… thought I was doing quite well with sleep but it turns out 4 weeks of snatches of sleep thanks to this sleep thief has chipped away at my resilience.

Anyway, it all came to a big ugly teary crescendo when I bawled my eyes out because I turned up too late for my appointment to register Caspian. Turns out they weren’t too keen on having a hysterical mum hanging out in their foyer and luckily one of their team finished an appointment early so they could squeeze me in.

I’m not sure I was any less snotty or cry-y, but I was very appreciative.

I was less appreciative of the fact I’d totally forgotten to wear boob pads so as I got up to leave I realised I had one soggy boob. It was also rather depressing how low down on my jumpsuit it was. Turns out as well as a soggy boob, it’s also saggy. Hurrah!

Note to self: prioritise sleep even more and spend more time watching Netflix and chilling ☺️

New mums out there - how you doing?!

#thirdtrimester #maternalmentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #newmumlife #momoments #ukmummy #londonmum #postnatal #leakyboobs #breastfeedingmom #mumofboys
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