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Ginmas Week 4 already! Another week and and seven more gins for Ginmas Week 4! All of the above are the gins I shared during week 4 of #Ginmas over on social media (my month of gins, one a day for the whole of December) but wanted to record them all here too. If you want to hunt them down then do look up The Gin Parlour who will
Tips for Balancing Work and Motherhood Balancing work and motherhood can be quite a complicated task for a lot of women, especially when the position is a full-time one. Quite naturally with the birth of a child priorities change and very often the topic of finding more time for one’s family suddenly becomes one of the most important issues. With the amount of stress that not being able to spend
Are you selling a family home? If so, not only will you have to contend with all the stress that goes with selling and buying, you’ll also have to give some thought to the practical and emotional aspects of moving with children. Here are five tips you can use to make the process of moving house a little bit easier if you have kids in tow. Warn children
Ginmas Week 3 So apologies for this post being a day late. Should have had it up yesterday but <insert long list of pathetic excuses involving a to do list longer than your arm and a five hour lunch with a client> …. Another week of seven different gins and Ginmas Week 3. Eek! I wasn’t sure this would actually work and that I would be able to keep it
Christmas Around the World Christmas traditions around the world fascinate me. In fact any kinds of traditions do and this year I have made a concerted effort to start reinforcing some of our own. You see things have changed over the past few years with us either being at Mr B’s parents, my parents, away in a rented cottage in Cornwall etc, but last year the teens said they
How many status updates have I seen on Facebook this week where people have said “oh god I have just spent hours writing cards and I am not even half way through” or “I have cramp” or “I am so bored with writing cards now”. I will tell you how many. A lot. Writing Christmas cards really doesn’t have to be a massive chore, all you need
If you are on social media today it won’t have escaped your attention that today is Christmas Jumper Day. Everybody is encouraged to wear their silliest, tackiest, most ridiculous Christmas jumper today, and to donate just a couple of quid to Save The Children. Of course larger donations are always welcomed but £2 can really make a difference. By donating that amount you will be contributing towards Save The
Christmas means one thing. Turkey. Presents. A week off work. A monster credit card bill in January. Snow. Family. Either you going to stay with other family, maybe not even your own, or them coming to stay with you. We always host at Christmas and whilst I can’t say I am an expert in this, I do think we have pretty much got it nailed for avoiding family
Well there have been another seven gins sampled since the last post and it has been a real voyage of discovery and actually also of geography. This week we have been all over the place, from Menorca to Yorkshire to Spain to Scotland and I have loved finding out a little bit more about each distillery or gin. So for posterity, here they all are in case you
The only pasta recipes you will ever need Pasta has to be one of the greatest ingredients ever created doesnt it? Simple ingredients mixed together to form a product that can then be shaped and used in dozens of different ways. In its simplest form just cooked for a couple of minutes and served warm with a drizzle of olive oil, a pinch of salt and big grind of freshly
No sooner has the August bank holiday weekend gone then shops start creeping in their Christmas ranges. Then from mid November onwards you cannot move for Christmas products everywhere you look. Every magazine has Christmas supplements or pull outs. There are tins of sweets stacked ten high, four columns wide. Yards of Jaffa cakes, though quite how they symbolise Christmas I have no idea. What I am noticing more
Here we are with Ginmas Week 1 When my parents owned a vineyard for ten years it never ceased to amaze me how much they knew about wine. As much as they knew though there was always more to learn and I really envied that knowledge of a subject and the ability to keep learning. As I approach my fifties I keep thinking my brain is going to