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The lovely Innocent Smoothie making people are celebrating the launch of their new alphabet magnets with a little alphabet photograph game to play along visit their website you can of course win prizes! I’m the Innocent Queen of V soooooo after sitting with the children who obviously wanted me to stick the V magnet onto the [...] Inspired by the lovely Amy from and 1 more means 4…. and 1 more and the also very lovely Ellen from In a Bun Dance I’m doing a nice positive blog ooozing with things I just love! So here it is… the things I just love… the smell of rain on hot dusty pavements The lovely people over at Silver Spoon sent me some Cakecraft products and what better way to use them than baking gorgeous little Halloween cupcakes. The children had a great time baking these and an even better time decorating them! What you need: (makes 12) 4oz unsalted butter I recently read an article in the Telegraph about Getting Kids Cooking all about how if you want to get kids really interested in cooking and producing good food you need to take the fun out of it. Well okay not all the fun, it details how Nigella Lawson was brought up ‘helping’ her mother [...] There’s been lots of hoo-hah on mummy blogs recently about giving Nutella to children as a *healthy* breakfast. Just pop over to More than Just a Mother and have a look at some of those comments… I have no issue with either eating Nutella myself or giving it to my children for breakfast. I don’t give it [...] *Disclaimer… this post may or may not contain generalised sweeping statements* Basically activities on an English Bank Holiday Monday can be split into four categories: 1) Gardening 2) Queuing in a car on a motorway/queuing in a car to enter an overpriced attraction 3) DIY 4) A good old family get together I specifically do all I can to avoid number [...] I’ve made no attempts to hide my absolute love of the National Trust and cannot highly recommend enough the fact that you simply must join. The annual expenditure of just £63.38 for a family membership for me cannot be rivalled. It has opened up a whole world of days out and fascinating experiences which my [...] There is something quite great about the British seaside it evokes memories of childhood holidays and I’ve so enjoyed sharing the simple seaside pleasures with my children over the last week. We have filled hours simply playing on the beach, making sandcastles, exploring the contents of rockpools, poking sea anemones, catching little fishes and the tiniest [...] Nutella cupcakes! Do I need to say more? Probably not but where Nutella is concerned more is definitely better! These are ideal messy little cakes for children to get involved making, but on the other hand if you are a grown up who doesn’t want chubby hand germs in their cookery then I’m quite sure you [...] |
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