Wagg the dog: delicious treats for the hound in your life.

I always wanted a dog with the sort of name that makes you look a bit bonkers. OK, so I looked a bit bonkers long before we got the dog, but it always amused me, in a puerile sort of way, to think of someone striding across a park shouting “Doughnut” or “Slapper”. You would [...]

The Gallery: Mother Nature

The Threeva has been learning about growing plants. She enjoys being outside and looking at the leaves on the trees and digging in the garden. She and her Daddy will go out in all weathers to potter and play. Last year they grew strawberries and if she went missing, I often found her at the [...]

Toddlerisms

Chatting with Tweeva whilst they played the ELC Pop It In The Post Game…..

DH: Darling, what do you call the man who delivers the post?

Tweeva: Post Man.

DH: And what do you call the man who delivers the milk?

Tweeva: It’s the Milk Man.

DH: And what do you call the [...]

Pay it Forward 2011: Giving

“Pay it forward 2011: I promise to send something handmade to the first 5 people who leave a comment here. (I promise!) They in turn must post this and send something they make to the first 5 people who comment on their status. The rules are that it must be handmade by you and it [...]

Why you should make a Will.

There’s a spot on the inside of my cheek, a lump of scar tissue built up over years of inadvertently biting the inside of my mouth (I’m quite good at injuring myself in preposterous ways.) I spent the morning chewing that spot on the inside of my mouth, hoping that the sensation would be enough [...]

Tefal Actifry: Perfect chips without the frying

Did you know that you could cook Spaghetti Bolognese in a fat-fryer? Or Pork Satay? I didn’t either. In my head at least, fat fryer are things that burn down houses, featuring in the Public Safety films of the early 1980′s and living on in my nightmares. They create a cooking fug that it [...]

Festive swear words on the Christmas Countdown

 There have been a few extra bodies in our bed of late, and before you start thinking that you’ve tuned into the wrong blog and that it should be beyond the watershed, I refer to:

1. The Wonder Hound, who whined so pitifully in the night because she was cold that we brought her into [...]