May was a good month. A busy month. Actually every month is a busy month. I like doing things with my children. I like finding new things to do online. I am beginning to like learning, despite the fact that finals made me fear ever having to learn anything ever again. It's nice. So, this month I made a rainbow cake for PD's birthday. It was inspired by all the rainbow-based foodstuffs I saw across the internet in the run-up to St Patrick's … [Read more...]
How to make a windsock
The Girls and I have been making windsocks from recycled bits and pieces this week. Though the sun that we have had of late has been lovely, it's the wind that has really got The Girls stirred up. PD really doesn't like it when the wind blows: she doesn't like her hair getting in her face. Down on the beach the other day, to deflect a brewing tantrum as a result of the usual hair-in-face trauma, we looked at the flags that are flying on Margate … [Read more...]
How to make Skittles from juice bottles
I should 'fess up now and tell you that I let my children drink Fruit Shoots (the releveance to making a garden skittles game will become clear shortly.) I know that this confession will bring forth a torrent of abuse from committed members of Mumsnet, but I can't keep it a secret any more. Admittedly they don't have them every day, but the sports bottles are brilliant for drinking when out and about and they really like them. They also happen to … [Read more...]
Chilling out in the DG Garden
It's been a really stressful few days, so much so that I have left myself only a week to organise PDs birthday party. It all got a bit on top of me yesterday and I really thought I was going burst with anger and frustration and the weariness that comes with days of interrupted sleep. And yet we girls ended up laughing and giggling and covered in paint. We painted some stones that we found a few weeks ago on a Suffolk beach (I always follow … [Read more...]
St George’s Day Craft: George Cross Tabard
The Church, knowing that a mere Saint's Day was no match for the epic event that was The Royal Wedding, moved St. George's Day this year. Who knew they could do that? I certainly didn't. And, no, they didn't really move it because of TRW, but because it would have fallen over Easter Weekend. Which means that tomorrow is St George's Day, and you will get to feel what it would be like if we had a public holiday every time we celebrated our Patron … [Read more...]
Royal Wedding Fever: Union Jack Biscuits
I've spent most of the day baking for our Royal Wedding Party tomorrow. A friend and I are following the recipes from a Coronation Street Party (that is a Street Party held in 1953 to celebrate the Coronation, rather than a party in an engaging British Soap Opera) which I will be hosting. I have asked that everyone wears a hat in honour of the occasion, and because this is my main memory of the first Royal Wedding I remember: I'm … [Read more...]
How to make a boat from juice carton
One of PDs favourite DVDs is a Day of Songs, which features the singing of Sophie Ellis-Bextor no less. The songs are grouped into themes and whilst we were sitting watching it recently, PD announced that she wanted a boat. We went on a scavenger hunt around the house and found a blue blanket, a laundry basket, a spade and a tea-towel, and before we knew it, we were rowing the boat wherever she wanted to go. Whilst we had a theme going, I … [Read more...]
