Sack the Xmas shopping, I’m planning my summer holidays!

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Last year we did the whole cheap and cheerful couple of nights at a motorway hotel whilst we took the kids to Drayton Manor (Thomasland!) and the like. It was a great holiday but for next year we are looking for something a little more… upmarket.

I don’t do camping (anything that involves a trek to a shower block to be confronted by dinner plate size spiders is a no-go!), and Roy doesn’t want to spend half the holiday driving great distances. We’ve decided to stay a little closer to home and search for cottages to rent in Yorkshire.

We have a wealth of local attractions that we want to explore with the boys and ideally would love to find somewhere close to the coast (no seaside visit can be as good as a visit to Whitby, complete with fish and chips from The Magpie!).  I love the idea of a cottage, room to move about, it doesn’t matter if the kids are a tad noisy, and it means we have the freedom to eat at “home” then fall into bed (whether this is food I cook or a takeaway).

A cottage ticks all the boxes so I’ll be searching Sykes Cottages this year for our Yorkshire break, and who knows, it may become an annual thing “The Cawood tour of the UK, one cottage at a time”.

Chicago Town Xfactor Pizza and chances to win

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Why oh why do people vote for Frankie? Honestly! Does he have some hidden charm that I am immune to? And Kitty, oh I admit she is slightly more likeable now she’s stopped jumping in swimming pools and wrapping her limbs around unsuspecting piano players but she is so nasal!

Can anyone tell me what is going on with the judges? Kelly was “ill” last week, was she ill or was she hiding out after a battle of words with Tulisa?

Xfactor has had more ups and downs this year than the worlds scariest rollercoaster but thankfully one thing has remained constant for us on our Saturday night treat nights… the pizza!

We were asked to review the Chicago Town Limited Edition X Factor – and we don’t say no to pizza, ever. When this arrived I did wonder if it would be too spicy for the 5yr old as it is topped with X-tra large pepperoni, mini pepperoni, red onion, spicy beef and mozzarella. He cleared his plate so I’m guessing not!

This pizza has a real dough base and is stuffed crust, it tastes as if it came from a takeaway shop, despite being frozen oven pizza, but without that oily taste I always find you get with delivered pizza.

Ready for the oven, this pizza comes with an oven ready tray so no scraping stuck on pizza off the baking tray, it literally just slides onto your plate.

Each pack has a free music download code and a chance to win show tickets and a share of £2.5m of prizes, from free pizza to £10,000 in cash (which would buy a lot of pizza). You can find out more about all of this on the Chicago Town Xfactor website.

This is a great value pizza, Daddy had a plateful and Kieran and I both managed a good sized slice each.

*We received a voucher for this pizza (RRP £3.78) and this is a sponsored post. That aside, our pizza findings our our own. We consider ourselves pizza-eating experts due to our large amount of practice over the years and as such can honestly say this is one delicious pizza that we would, and will, buy again.