Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

I am new to slow cooking. In fact my mantra of late has been fast cooking: the kind of cooking that can be whipped up in twenty minutes from when I come downstairs having left The Girls screaming put The Girls to bed to when DH walks through the door. My life involves short-cuts [...]

Snow is falling: top sledging tips

 

Dashing (safely) Through the Snow

Top Tobogganing Safety Tips from The Handpicked Collection

 

If the forecasters are to be believed, we’re in for more snow this winter, which is great news for children who can’t wait to wrap up warmly and run outside for some sledging fun!  Make sure [...]

Kick-start Christmas: how to make mince pies and an Amazon Giveaway

mince pies

It’s day  of the Kick-Start Christmas Giveaway and I’m sitting watching Barbie The Nutcracker with The Girls. I can feel stirrings of something approximating Christmas spirit, despite the early hour. Which makes it the perfect time to tell you about today’s Giveaway.

It couldn’t be simpler: I have a £25 Amazon voucher. No [...]

Reindeer Cookies and Gingerbread men

reindeer biscuit and gingerbread man

I bet you didn’t know what you get if you turn a gingerbread man upside down (and no, it’s not a smutty joke.) I didn’t either until I was cruising pinterest one day. Invert a gingerbread man and you get a very convincing reindeer cookie. Allow me to demonstrate.

First, you will need some [...]

Have you met the Sharon Fruit?

Sharon fruit

Did you ever have one of those lightbulb moments that opened up something to you that you had previously dismissed because it looked too hard? For me it was when I saw Lady W use a peeler to take off the skin of a butternut squash. I had no idea you could do that, [...]

Put on a happy face

If you are in need of a simple preschool craft, then take a sharpie everywhere. It’s amazing the things you can put a smile on:

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Coffee capsule people

faces on conkers

rubber glove people

Every stone family needs a dog

Stone Family

 

How to fill a large wall space

finished plate-covered wall

I briefly mentioned the dining room when talking about our resident seagull a few days ago. Keith inhabits one wall of the room, which has changed quite a lot in the past few months: the alcove shelving has been built, the walls have been painted (Farrow and Ball Chinese Blue in case you are [...]

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