If you look through my pages you will come across my manifesto for a University of Life - my plan to educate my Girls to be worldly-wise and chock-full of life-skills when they leave my full-time care. I put a call out to fellow bloggers- all as shocked as me that there are teenagers leaving home for the first time with no idea how to change a bed- to offer posts with suggestions for how to educate the latest generation. First up is Mary from … [Read more...]
Papier-mâché Hen Challenge
A while ago Molly Moo published a picture of the most fabulous Papier-mâché Chicken/Hen that she had made at her Papier-mâché course. This precipitated a Hen Craft Challenge which I agreed to take part in, although frankly I was never going to match up to Her Craftyness's high standards. I used a cereal packet to do most of the work for me. Firstly, I took off the top third, and put to one side for the 'bits' < that's a tchnical term, by … [Read more...]
Eric and Ernie Golden Syrup Cake #cbias
Have you noticed a big yellow hot thing in the sky lately? I'm told it's the 'sun'. I have discovered an allergy to this 'sun' which means I have been sneezing and sniffing all weekend long. To cheer my germ-ridden self up, and because #CBias asked me to take a trip to my local supermarket baking aisle- like I need an excuse-, I thought I would bake a cake. Shaped like this 'sun'. I popped to my local Waitrose to grab the … [Read more...]
Cheese Gougeres, chocolate fondue and Gateau au Yaourt.
Bonjour mes petits! This month the Around the World trip is stopping off in France, home to my other family and so many places and people that are close to my heart. We eat croissants and pain-au-chocolat fairly regularly, so I thought we'd try some of the other foods from the land of fine food and great wine. Firstly we had friends round for tea and made a quick chocolate sauce from chocolate, butter, golden syrup and evaporated milk. It's my … [Read more...]
17 Simple St George’s Day Crafts
It's St George's Day this week, and time for us to celebrate our Saint's Day. In the words of LBG, the story goes as follows: 'the people had to give all their princesses away so that the dragons wouldn't attack the villages. Then one day they ran out of princesses. No, there was one Princess left but she was much specialer and they didn't want to give her away. So the king asked a brave-and-handsome-knight to kill the dragon. And the knight … [Read more...]
Our five favourite products at The Baby and Toddler Show, Bluewater
I headed over to Bluewater today with Dimples today to take a look at the great products for babies and young children that are on the market at The Baby and Toddler Show. Glow at Bluewater is a great venue for us as it's just the other side of the M25 and a lot less stressful than driving to Excel. There is so much parking, it's well signposted and generally well laid out. And if that's not enough there's the small matter of over 300 shops, … [Read more...]
Earth Day activity: toilet roll planters, milk jug Earth scoops and planting sunflower seeds
It's been a dreadful year for growing things: the weather has put everything back. So it was only last week that we finally got round to dealing with our spring planting. In particular, we planted some sunflower seeds- provided by Center Parcs- as part of this month's Tots 100 Challenge whilst also incorporating recycling as an Earth Day Activity. The planting also has pertinence because 22nd April is Earth Day, something we try to mark each … [Read more...]
