I happened to be online when Mammasaurus' post about Travelsupermarket's Kids Capture the Colour competition went live and was delighted to be sent a free camera for LBG to take her very own pictures to enter in the competition. As a child of a blogger she is very used to not eating until I have instagrammed her food, or posing with a product for a review photograph, or just turning around to find her Mamma with a camera in her face, recording … [Read more...]
{Why You Should} be all over the Pinterest Moms Linky!
We were so lucky last month to have 125 great parent bloggers join the Instagram Linky that was the brain child of Michelle from Molly Moo. I hope that everyone who joined in has been following some new great creative and inspiring mums that Instagram every moment of every day (that may just me.) Anyway, tha Instagram linky was such a hit, we've mixed it up with a Pinterest Blog Hop. I say a Pinterest Blog Hop, I of course mean the Pinterest … [Read more...]
How to cook the perfect Christmas Turkey
This week I got to spend time in the kitchen of Marco Pierre White whilst he told me how to cook the perfect turkey ahead of Christmas Day, thanks to the #leanonturkey campaign. This meant eating Christmas lunch in September. Just to check that it was indeed excellent turkey. Who was I to say no? It turns out that Marco recommends the domestic cook buy a Turkey Crown. He demonstrated in a very caveman fashion how to cut up the bird to get the … [Read more...]
What does Mamma do?
I recently found a great pin- a questionnaire about Mummy. As we were spending time at the table anyway, I asked my girls the questions and these are the answers I got. [I couldn't help myself from commenting in square parentheses.] 1. What is something that Mamma always says to you? Can I kiss you forever? - Both [I do. It's my most fabourite game.] 2. What makes Mamma happy? When we tidy our beds beautifully - … [Read more...]
15 Tips for talking to children about death
Last Friday we learned the sad news that my Uncle had died. Whilst he is not a relative we see regularly, he is my family and I will attend the funeral this week and will be taking Dimples with me. Which of course, means talking to my children about the topic of death. LBG is five and Dimples is three, so I don't expect them to get the intricacies but, for their own sake as well as the grieving family, it would be prudent to give them a few … [Read more...]
Let Us Tell You a Story- Part Two
You played Consequences as a child, didn't you? The game where every person writes a line to the story- only having seen the preceeding line- and at the end you all sit and read it out and have a jolly good laugh? Well this isn't like that. Every day one of a crack group of bloggers will be adding a paragraph to our collaborative tale, weaving the story in whichever way they chose, until at the end we put it all together, publish it and … [Read more...]
Paper Lantern Bats and Ghosts for Halloween
Now that the nights are drawing in, my thoughts are turning to the Autumn and Winter events on the calendar, the first one being Halloween, which is a big event in our house. Not for the spookiness, but for the annual Pumpkin Party that is usually scheduled around that time. So when Red Ted Art threw down the crafting gauntlet for Halloween crafts, you would have thought that we would dive into the Pumpkin crafting with delight. Not so. … [Read more...]
