A lifestyle blog
This is another National Trust property that is just down the road from us and where we ended up on Sunday when I declared I was going out for an hour. Little did I know how steeped in history it was, and linked to one of my favourite children’s books of all time, thanks to E H Shepard. I wrote about him, and his drawing of the mill appearing
There’s wind on the river and wind on the hill . . . There’s a dark dead water-wheel under the mill! I saw a fly which had just been drowned- And I know where a rabbit goes into the ground! When my children were little I was ever so slightly obsessed with Winnie the Pooh. With the stories, the poems, the friendships in the stories, and the illustrations.
Don’t look at me like that. Red kidney bean chocolate cake is an actual thing, made with red kidney beans, and if you watched Best Home Cook on BBC last week you will see that one of the contestants attempted this in one of the rounds That programme reminded me that I had written this post a few years ago having made my own. Made partly because I was
I remember Furby the first time around. They were the MUST HAVE Christmas present one year when my three were small. It had to be a red one. The red ones were sold out. The only parenting issue worse than a sold out Christmas present on Christmas Eve is stepping on Lego at 3am. There is nothing else. There was nothing else that Santa could do that year we
Sport in this house is a case of love it and embrace it, or, well, leave the room. We have all the sport packages Sky can offer with all the additional sport channels you can find. We have online betting apps (always bet responsibly kids) and it is a huge part of our weekends. Not playing it ourselves, don’t be ridiculous. Watching it on TV though. If
You are expecting your first baby? Congratulations! You have a lot of new and exciting adventures ahead of you. But at the same time you are also heading into the unknown – while you may have cooed over your friends babies and waved many colleagues off on maternity leave, actually going through these things for yourself can be daunting. While you have your nose buried in every baby book
Bit of a different one this week for Window Wednesday in that I am not featuring one place and their windows this week, but I am wandering around the whole town of Deal. It was only when I looked through all my photos from our weekend in White Cliffs Country that I realised just how many photos of buildings I have taken. I can never take too many in
Have you heard about Amazon Dash buttons? They started out as Amazon’s April Fool’s Joke but so many people said “That is genius, we want them” that Amazon put them into production. But what are they? Well they are small wi-fi enabled buttons that are branded and paired to a certain product. By pressing the button that product is delivered to you via your Amazon Prime Account. Just like that.
Before we go any further I have two things to say about this incredible pie. The first is that this was made back in March, as there hasn’t been a pie window of opportunity this week. So this exceptional pie made back in March is being blogged about this week as I haven’t blogged it before. And secondly I can sing its praises as I didn’t make it. Jonnie
For the inaugral #MBGC (Mummy Barrow Gin Club) I am cho’sing a gin that brings back childhood memories. You see drinking for me isn’t about forgetting or getting hammered. I don’t like being drunk, mainly because I can’t spend the following day feeling ill since children don’t understand that mummy is ill. So drinking for me is always about remembering, reminiscing, chatting. It is a social thing. I don’t enjoy drinking
To uni or not to uni that is the question that my youngest is now asking herself. This is not a new question in our house though, my eldest two asked themselves the same question when they were deep into their A levels. Caity wanted to be a paramedic and Jonnie an accountant, both of which need degrees to enter the profession. The more they looked into it
This one is not the prettiest thing in the world but bearing in mind the deadline for entries this week is in six hours and my tart is still warm, this is as good as it gets I am afraid! It was this or the Danish Pastries and at 6.30pm there is no way I am attempting those, hell I can barely throw this together! And I have a new