There are, on average, 90,500 online searches a month for ‘chocolate cake recipes’, so Waitrose.com have compiled the ULTIMATE collection of chocolate cake recipes in one handy place on their website. To test how great their recipes are, they challenged me to make one of the online recipes with one proviso: that I used a secret ingredient, which they would supply, in my cake. Not one to turn down chocolate, and having a surfeit of eggs, I was … [Read more...]
Getting organised for the New School Year #StationeryWednesday
I have declared a break with convention in the DG home. Rather than follow the more conventional calendar that runs from January to December, I will operate a calendar that follows the Academic year, from September through to August. It is such a frustration to receive the year's events for the diary in September and then find I have to transfer all this data from one diary to another only three months or so later. Thus I am getting organised … [Read more...]
Bissell Vac and Steam All in One Cleaner Review
It's rare that a product really impresses me. It's twice as rare when a product impresses DH. The Bissell Vac and Steam All in One Cleaner did both. The Bissell site claims: The Vac & Steam combines a powerful cyclonic vacuum and a steam mop in one. This innovative product is easy to use as a vacuum on its own, a steam mop on its own, or together for one simple clean action by separating dry debris from wet … [Read more...]
Fabulous Fairtrade Shabby Chic Braided Rug
Our Shabby Chic Summerhouse makeover has been getting some fabulous feedback, both from The Girls who use it almost daily, and online. I still have several tweaks I want to make, things I want to add and top of my hit-list was a rug. So I was delighted when Culture Vulture Direct got in touch to offer one. Funnily enough I had received my copy of their catalogue in the mail only that morning and had been petitioning DH for the Providence Rag Rug … [Read more...]
Review: Tesco Finest Flowers
It's incredibly hard to review a bouquet of flowers that you neither chose nor received, but I shall do my best. Ahead of Mother's Day Tesco contacted me to ask if there was someone special I would like to send flowers to for Mother's Day. The moment I saw the email I knew exactly who I wanted to receive some surprise flowers: "Liz is the kind of person who always puts herself last. She is loving and supportive and constantly thinking of … [Read more...]
The new star of the Zizzi’s menu – the Sweet Pizza
I last ate in Zizzi's in Bromley when LBG was small. Lisa and I took our three children for lunch, and my memory of the experience is not a good one. I don't think I've eaten at a Zizzi's since, though that of course may have something to do with half my family not eating cheese. Last week, I went back to see how things have changed and to try the new star of the Zizzi's menu -the Sweet Pizza. The decor had been updated- calm colours and … [Read more...]
GoldieBlox rocks our world
I've been following the story of GoldieBlox for a while. The toys for future innovators is the brain child of Debbie Sterling, who saw a need in the Pink Aisle of the toy store for an alternative, despite being told by leading toymakers that engineering toys for girls don't sell. As a parent of two girls I have been trying to find a balance between Barbie- and you should read Frog Mom's thoughts on the plastic phenomenon- and Meccano, which … [Read more...]
