A lifestyle blog
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
I am not sure if you were there when we arrived, or if you came along after us. But as we sat and waited for our drinks to arrive I noticed you further up the street, just over Mr B’s shoulder. You were washing your neck, using a cloth being dipped in a bucket, standing in the gutter in your socks, and shorts. I thought you were the
Welcome to the Mummy Barrow Gin Parlour! It seems strange that it was only a couple of years ago that I had never tried a G&T. That when I then did I was a bit “hmm no thanks, I don’t like it”. Yet now here I am launching my gin club. What I then came to realise, only recently, was that it isn’t gin I didn’t like, but tonic. And
It’s National Curry Week in October and so I thought I would share my chicken tikka masala recipe I remember being really surprised back in 2001 when Robin Cook was on the news saying that Chicken Masala was a British national dish. Now the idea doesn’t seem strange at all, of course it is. I also remember that there was a lot of fuss about whether it should have
We have Catherine of Aragon to thank for Deal Castle. Sort of. When Henry VIII decided he wanted to annul the marriage it caused ructions with the Pope of the time, and also with Catherine’s nephew who just happened to be Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. Having annoyed these two men Henry was warned that an attack on England was imminent and therefore defences needed to be
Kids generally get a lot of opportunities to do sport and exercise in school, but not all of them take to the lessons on offer and some can actually wind up disliking physical education if they feel embarrassed or aren’t very good at the sports they try compared to their classmates. This is one of the reasons why it can be a great idea to do some sports activities as
I know. I don’t really know where to start with this one but when I heard about an “innovation” in the making of tea on the Food Programme on Radio 4 last week my ears pricked up. As you know, I am a huge lover of tea. Our Sage Appliances tea maker is one of my most treasured possessions. This time a year ago I was breaking my ankle falling
