Posts about our family life, you’ll get to know more about us by reading our ‘Scrapbook Loves’, Everyday Us, Sunday Scrapbook and other posts. Family posts cover all the topics that don’t really fit anywhere else!
I’ve not written about Athena’s eating habits for ages, but recently we seem to have leapt a bit of a hurdle with food so I thought I’d do an update. After the side effects of her 12 month jabs we had a week of very little food consumption, which was a bit worrying but after… Read More
Cotton candy jelly jujubes chocolate ice cream. Cheesecake cupcake sweet roll chocolate apple pie. Donut jelly-o chocolate candy gingerbread icing cheesecake bear claw gingerbread. Gummi bears gingerbread muffin apple pie dragée soufflé. Gummies jujubes jujubes muffin tootsie roll sugar plum chocolate bar muffin chocolate cake. Apple pie gingerbread sesame snaps icing. Brownie danish sweet dessert… Read More
When I was younger I used to spend pretty much the whole of summer holidays outside. Back then there was a lot less worry for our parents about letting us spend all day outside with friends, and a lot less to keep us interested inside like Dads and computer games (well, I had a mega… Read More
When asked if I wanted to experiment by making some gin cocktails to taste test the Oliver Cromwell London Dry Gin from Aldi I agreed, with a lot of encouragement from Sam who loves making cocktails! Oliver Cromwell Dry Gin has picked up top medals at several prestigious drinks award ceremonies this… Read More
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In July I… Started work again after maternity leave. I’ll write more about this soon probably. Started being a lot pickier with what I chose to take on blog wise. I am declining a lot of review offers as I was finding blogging was becoming a chore and not a fun hobby. I’ve also stopped… Read More
Athena is loving playing in the make-shift den I built her a few days ago. When she was having her morning nap I opened up a folding table, popped her bean bag chair and some cushions in and flung a spare sheet over it all. I set up her crawl-tunnel (an ikea bargain!) so it… Read More
I used to do a lot more baking in the pre-baby days, when I could take all my baked goods into work and hand them out to avoid eating all the calories myself. Then Athena came along and apart from her Christening and Birthday cakes I reckon I’ve only baked once a month at best!… Read More
Clearly I am not heading back to school, but getting a new rucksack has made me feel a bit like I used to at the end of the summer term. I had 6 weeks ahead of me stretching out… yet I used to get a new bag, shoes, pencil case and stationery in the… Read More
Vanilla Salt is the debut novel from Ada Parellada, a respected chef. It follows the story of Annette and Alex, their past and their present, and their struggles to keep their restaurant afloat (but for different reasons!) The character of Alex is a typical chef (I should know, I’ve worked with lots as a hotel… Read More