I'm going to teach you how to play squares. It's a really simple game which takes no time at all to learn. It teaches simple tactics and turn taking to children, and is a great way of keeping them occupied in restaurants and doctor's surgeries. All you need is paper and pencil. If you have coloured pens, so much the better. First you need a grid of dots, evenly spaced. To while away the long double Chemistry lessons at school we used … [Read more...]
{Review} What is Zulily?
Have you heard of Zulily? I've been a member for a few months, since I heard about Zulily at a BritMums event. It's an American company that has branched out to the UK. It's an online shop offering 'daily sales events' on everything you can think of for mums, babies and kids. In some cases, members can save 90% on regular retail prices from brands that are household names- such as Hello Kitty, Converse and Prince Lionheart, to new and … [Read more...]
Tasting House
Sometimes there just aren't the words. It's the reason I've been struggling with this post since I was invited to Tasting House. Because when you are presented with a dream-made-real, it is genuinely challenging to describe it. Because the place was filled from ceiling to floor with edible treats. And I don't just mean mountains of cake, but edible place settings, flower arrangements and rugs. There was a bath filled with popcorn and a … [Read more...]
Things my children have been saying
"I don't think I will be very hungry at pudding time." Dimples, just before she hoovered up two scoops of ice-cream. "The hot is not going away" Dimples, whilst blowing on her sausages to cool them down. "My feet feel very fizzy." LBG, describing pins and needles. "Mamma, what is a dick-head?" Dimples, shortly after the afore-mentioned bad driver caused me to do an emergency stop in the middle of a busy junction on a school-run. Yes, … [Read more...]
Vitamix-ologist
I'm a little excited. I got an email last week offering me the chance to host my own Margarita party with Vitamix. I received it just as I had spent 24 hours awake looking after two ill small children and if I'd have had the Vitamix right there I'd have whipped up a cocktail to celebrate. There's nothing that makes you feel better about wearing your pjs for a day and a half than a party to plan. Now I know very little about the Vitamix, … [Read more...]
Fried Egg Biscuits
I love the simplicity of these Fried Egg Biscuits but they do look very striking on the plate. I initially made them as an Easter treat but the more I look at them, the more I think they'd make a great April Fool's. This really is an easy recipe. Firstly, I followed the divine Utterly Scrummy's recipe for Vanilla Biscuits- I used half the amount- to make my biscuit dough. Then you need to separate off about a quarter of the dough and colour … [Read more...]
Easter Egg stained Glass Window
The Girls were ill last week: a combination of the looming end-of-term, horrific colds and the kind of bugs that get you all. This precipitated 48 hours in their pjs, all of us trapped in the house like we were eight feet deep in snow. For the main part we existed on a diet of toast and television: all any of us, with our achey shivery bodies, were capable of. But there were pockets of time, after the Nurofen had kicked in, when they rallied and … [Read more...]
