A couple of weeks ago we were invited to take part in a preview of The Big Draw at The Imperial War Museum, North in Manchester. This event is inviting families to take part in the world's largest drawing festival. The people at the ...
Reviews
We enjoy writing reviews of products we buy or are sent and events we attend at Casa Costello. We will always make it clear when we have been asked to write about something in our review.
Hotel Chocolat Valentines Review
It has been rather a difficult week in the Costello household. Parenting has definitely reminded us that life rarely runs smoothly. We appear to be over the worst and so I feel great delight in spending this evening relaxing on my sofa with ...
Project Complete – Lego Campervan Review
We are a massive Lego family - we have whole cupboards, huge boxes, small boxes and now a Lego Head dedicated to the stuff. Its become an important element of Christmas that on Boxing Day the dining room table is cleared and our comes the ...
Morphy Richards Soup Maker Review: Perfect Last Minute Gift
I have to admit to being a bit clueless about Soup Makers before I got one. I wondered how they could be better, simpler or quicker than just cooking veg in a pan and blitzing it. When Morphy Richards invited me to try out their Morphy ...
The Costellos visit Chill Factore, Manchester
These are pictures of my children having a brilliant morning. A morning that they are still rabbiting on about 3 days later. Ok, I know the picture of Tara looks like I've squashed her into a rubber ring (and to be truthful I had but she ...
Top 5 Kitchen Inventions Under £5
I love a bargain and very few things beat the feeling of getting right good value for money. With this in mind, I introduce you to my entranklement drawer and my favourite kitchen utensils under a fiver (Its rather famous around here ...
How to prevent travel sickness: SeaBands Review
See this picture above? What do you see? The beautiful sea behind and the promise of some warm weather? Yep, all that but so much more ...I see me smiling. And up until recently, that was quite rare on a boat. What you can't see on the ...
Tips for Ferry Travel with Young Children
In the past 4 years we have gone on 3x 20 hour ferry journeys plus extra Irish Sea crossings totalling over 110 human hours of ferry travel for us. We are no experts but have learnt a lot from our mistakes. These are some of our tips for ...
