How did it get to be the end of June already?! Madness… I’m off to BritMums Live this weekend, and then we’re spending some time in Scotland, so I’m just squeezing in my June review roundup while I have the chance. As ever, any review items I’ve been sent are noted in the disclosure statement [...]
A few weeks ago Dr Oetker asked me whether I would like to review some of their products. I owned up that I used lots of their goodies anyway, including their legendary cake release spray. I never make a bundt without the stuff! Last weekend our WI group had a cake stall at Horwich Carnival, [...]
So they’re gone. All of them. Except for Pushkin that is. Erica from 92three30 had a friend who was looking for two kittens for her daughter and she came to pick up Tabitha and Stripey today. Talya went yesterday to live with a school friend of Flower’s. And look what Erica’s friend gave us to [...]
A few days ago, my beau’s younger brother made an off-the-cuff comment about knitting. I can’t remember exactly how it was termed, but the particulars included something to do with knitting being for both the ‘sad’ and the ‘old’. I perked up at this, defending us young, hip knitters and I was temporarily excused for [...]
There are so many reviews on Internet about this product… Dream Cream is a body&hand lotion. This is the Nr 1 best-selling Lush product of all time, the master-product for the sensitive skin. I don’t have sensitive skin but you know how in the summer is: the hair gets dry, the skin gets dry, under [...]
I was going to call this post “Fatigue in Ehlers Danlos Syndrome” but that sounds a bit grown up and medical so I thought I’d go for the outright question, Does Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Make You Tired? Now, this could be a really short post because there is one utter, complete, sky writeable and overwhelming [...]
This is the first in a new series here at family budgeting of brilliant budget recipes. Charlotte from Tails of The Welbeck Farm Shopf is our first recipe sharer. The recipes on her gorgeous blog are from Mrs Marson her recipe guru, She was the village school cook from Charlotte’s husbands school days. All the [...]
In addition we gave Daddy a hamper of retro sweets from Chocolate Buttonsfollow. I say we gave it to him, what I actually mean is that we let him tear off the plastic wrapper, before declaring our favourites. We chose the Chewy Bars box, with Refreshers, Drumsticks, Wham Bars (apparently they were acceptable in the [...]
Very short, but very snort-worthy this week. A quick story about athlete’s foot, from a friend of mine. Finishing off her bath-time routine, E notices the tin of athlete’s foot spray perched on the corner of the bath: Like this?Read more… Recommended by Actually Mummy…
Thoughts on the Nigella pictures, domestic violence and where we need to go from here. Like this?Read more… Recommended by The View From the Table
to every mother (whatever the number of children), there comes a day when you need to move on from maternity clothes. That day is a tough one. Here is what you will find*: gone are the days of leisurely shopping trips. In their place, you will find yourself grabbing desperately at the mismatching garments flanking [...]
Today I’m excited to announce the beginning of the All Year Round Blog Carnival: Summer, a collection of summer posts sharing seasonal thoughts, pictures, activities, crafts, recipes, books, art, nature study, projects, celebrations and more. You are invited to join us and link up your old and new summer posts (maximum 5 posts a day [...]
I’ve just spent the last half an hour staring at the laptop screen wondering what to write. I thought I knew what I wanted to say, but… So let’s go back to basics! Stream of consciousness stuff and all that! Here goes! Like this?Read more… Recommended by Lost In Blaenavon
I explained to my teen that we had this lovely kit sent over and that we had to do something with it – and well, if we could think of something more unusual than just planting the flowers this would be even better. So he came up with the idea of an experiment. First of [...]
Every single day… I look at both of my little boys… and I can’t believe how lucky we have been. James and I have two amazing, smart, healthy and fun little boys, that are ours for forever. We aren’t going to have any more children, and as I mentioned before, there is such a lovely [...]
Taking pictures of my (ever expanding) bump wasn’t something I really planned on doing until recently. There are no pictures of me pregnant with The Toddler. Well, ok, I’ve found one, but it’s at about 14 weeks and I just look a bit like I’ve had dinner. I’m not super self conscious about my body, but I think that, [...]
Last Saturday, Debs and I visited The Autism Show at London’s Excel. Poor Debs fell over the dog a couple of days earlier and has her wrist in a splint so my long-suffering husband, Marco, came along as chief wheelchair-pusher and photographer, so thank you to him for putting up with my constant requests to go, [...]
Last Saturday, Debs and I visited The Autism Show at London’s Excel. Poor Debs fell over the dog a couple of days earlier and has her wrist in a splint so my long-suffering husband, Marco, came along as chief wheelchair-pusher and photographer, so thank you to him for putting up with my constant requests to go, [...]
Last Saturday, Debs and I visited The Autism Show at London’s Excel. Poor Debs fell over the dog a couple of days earlier and has her wrist in a splint so my long-suffering husband, Marco, came along as chief wheelchair-pusher and photographer, so thank you to him for putting up with my constant requests to go, [...]
Have you been wondering why your traffic has dropped? Could it have been Penguin 2.0? Could it have been Panda? Find out more here. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Blogging Wizard
