As a member of the Morphy Richards Innovators team, I recently took delivery of a bread maker. Less than two hours later, I produced my first loaf of bread. I have since tried several different recipes from the accompanying book to get a feel for the machine and as far as I can see it there is only one fault. Sadly, it's a big one. There is a teeny tiny blade that sits at the bottom of the bread pan which is responsible for all the … [Read more...]
Pretty Paper Angel Garland
We have been reading Milly-Molly-Mandy- Granny's favourite stories- at bedtime of late. In one tale, 'Teacher' comes to stay at Milly-Molly-Mandy's home and astounds the child by making 'little sailor girls'. I remember making the same thing from newspaper as a child. My Girls were interested to know what these little sailor girls were, so I showed them how you make a string of 'little girls' by concertina-ing a length of paper, and cutting … [Read more...]
366 week 46
I am not doing very well at the moment. My week has been bumbling along at the same frenetic pace as usual though. Which may be a good thing. The camera has stayed firmly in it's bag though, as it did last week, and I have been wholly dependent on Instagram. Sunday: Dreadful weather and a working husband chased The Girls and I to the soft play centre where, for the first time ever, I stayed in my shoes. They played happily together, … [Read more...]
In which my children design their own t-shirts
Polo-shirts.co.uk is launching a competition which calls upon your t-shirt designing skills. Your children can enter their design and the winning blogger (and parent of designer) gets £100 given to the charity of their choice. We were sent t-shirts and fabric crayons by the people at Polo Shirts with which to create our masterpieces. I put a piece of card between the front and back of the t-shirt to prevent transfer, and I stuck the … [Read more...]
Center Parcs Challenge: design a water ride
This month Center Parcs and the Tots 100 are challenging us- and you- to come up with our dream Water Ride, ahead of the launch of the world first water ride later this month at Elveden Forest. Our girls are really enjoying the swimming that they are doing lately, and over breakfast one morning, they and DH pooled ideas. I drew the short straw, literally, as I was in charge of translating them to paper. This is what we came up … [Read more...]
Five Simple Yogurt Recipes
Growing up in Cyprus, I have memories of thick creamy yogurt drizzled with golden honey. Most things were covered in honey, to be fair, but it's the yogurt I remember most. Perhaps that's why I love nothing more for breakfast when in warm countries than honeyed yogurt. There is always yogurt in our kitchen: the Girls get through masses of it. And I am happy for them to have it because I know that it is packed full of calcium. What I didn't … [Read more...]
Black dogs and leaden hearts
I feel broken. Not in a completely-irreparably-destroyed way , but in a operating-on-autopilot kind of way. For the last few days I have been carrying a lead box around where my chest should be. I've been tending to my children, keeping them fed, clothed and on schedule. I have been cooking for the husband, comforting the firework-traumatised dog. Other than that I have been staring at a computer screen, hiding from friends, avoiding phone … [Read more...]
