Perfect Picnik Alternative

alternative to Picnik

Everyone who is a fan of Picnik will know that its days are numbered: from 19th April it will disappear, assimilated into the great Google black hole. This is the ‘Biggest Disaster Ever’ for me asd I came fairly late to the Picnik party in the first place. I’ve been wishing and hoping  that the ideal [...]

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas and how to make a Crocus Card

I have never really had an issue buying Mother’s Day Gifts, fortunately. My mother is very easy to please! In actual fact it’s because I struck upon a brilliant wheeze, round about the time I met DH for the very first time, although this is purely coincidental. Every year on Mother’s Day, I send her [...]

Top tips for Potty training

Top potty training tips

I sit here, as the temperature plummets, with the fire on in the sitting room. The floor is littered with the toys that Dimples, naked from the waist down, has cast aside. So far today she has had two changes of clothes. But I’m fairly relaxed about it, and this has nothing to do with the fact [...]

Dealing with Toddler Tantrums: a guest post by Joanne Mallon

Dealing with toddler tantrums

Joanne Mallon is a freelance journalist and life and career coach, and I’ve been following her blog Joanne the Coach for a while because she’s written a book called Toddlers: An Instruction Manual. The book, available through Amazon and as a Kindle download features advice from over 60 bloggers, and is helping to raise money for [...]

Simple upcycled spoon plant markers

upcycled spoons into plant markers

I’ve seen quite a few plant marker posts on Pinterest, my spiritual home. Sadly they seem to involved metal stamping of some kind and that, quite frankly, is beyond my threshold of what-can-be-reasonably-achieved-in-my-lifetime. I’m fairly sure that the tools required would throw DH over the edge and may force him to move into his as-yet-unfinished-man-shed [...]

My twitter policy: what’s yours?

I saw a post about twitter policy on Laptops and Lullabies, in which Laura put forward her strategy, for want of a better word for using Twitter. I like having a manifesto for how you approach social media. I have come to realise that I know more than I thought, which is thrilling, but I [...]

Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

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 and [...]