Easy and Cheap Christmas Dinner Anyone that knows me well will know that I am not keen on mentioning the word Christmas before December. However this year I have decided to abandon my normal rules and bring it up in November and not only that, I am attempting an easy and cheap Christmas dinner. In …
Pass the Pugs Review (ad) I have fond memories of playing Pass the Pigs as a child. It would entertain for hours. Back in the late 1970s when the game was first released I often could be found sitting around a table with family or friends casually tossing two little plastic pig’s into the air, …
Send them cupcakes REVIEW gifted/ad We love baking together and are often found bellowed in a cloud of flour in the kitchen mixing ingredients together. However, sometimes it’s nice not to have to make and just get to eat! Where we live, Halloween is a huge event. The entire village becomes a spooky spectacular area. …
Getting Creative with Design Bundles The kids are back to school, things seem to be getting back to normal (ish) and the evenings are starting to draw in. The kids are not outside as much any more, so I am needing to find stuff for them to do inside. The boys seem to have a …
The middle of July, raining, typical UK summertime I guess…….. Oh, you may have noticed we are in the middle (is there a middle?) of a worldwide pandemic. We have all been juggling schoolwork, exercise and playtime for some time and current toys have started to become overused. The little lady has been speeding through …
We have attended The Food and Drink Festival 2020 and you can too. Normally by now, the kids and I are regularly visiting local food and drink festivals in the region. Not only do they enjoy an amble around a sunny outside space, they, in their own words ‘get a load of free food’ in …
Lockdown Activities While my eldest two are busying themselves on Google Classroom. The youngest of the team is finding herself ‘bored’ more often than normal. The primary school age group seem to speed through their required pieces of work at the speed of light. Some Lockdown activities were needed. I have been making use …
Silver Lining As we fast approach the end of week 5 of this unprecedented era of lockdown. People across the country are learning to deal with rules that to begin with felt so unnatural. But does every cloud have a silver lining? The majority of children are off school, many people told to not work. …
A precision plan was concocted involving a bus, a train and a fair bit of walking. Exhausted before leaving the house. I went out. Out out.
Being single I hadn’t really planned a ‘valentines’ post. So why do I find myself writing one and why is a day late? So, this is my valentines day. I have an urge to start this post with, ‘Once upon a time, in a far distant place……..” and give you a story about being single …
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