Best Chocolate Courgette Cake Recipe. Ever. Fact. Sunday Baking
Mar03

Best Chocolate Courgette Cake Recipe. Ever. Fact. Sunday Baking

Courgettes in chocolate cake. I know. It’s weird. In fact, my children think it’s a frankly horrific suggestion. So I didn’t tell them. And the echoes of joy as the experience of this moist, dense, rich-yet-light chocolate cake hit their brains was enough to tell that hiding green vegetables in delicious cake can only ever be a Very Good Thing. This is by far and away the very best chocolate cake I have EVER made....

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A dose of sunshine AND Debenhams Flowers discount code 25% for Mother’s Day!
Mar03

A dose of sunshine AND Debenhams Flowers discount code 25% for Mother’s Day!

  Read on for your Debenhams Flowers discount code – save yourself 25% for Mother’s Day! I know Pooh says that no one can be uncheered with a balloon… but I’m pretty sure that counts for a bunch of beautiful sunshiney yellow flowers too. Incorporating a beautiful flower illustration into your Mother’s Day card can add a personal and creative touch to your gift.  How can you not smile when you...

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The Family Cookbook – Mother’s Day Gift Guide
Mar03

The Family Cookbook – Mother’s Day Gift Guide

I know, I know – it doesn’t sound terribly exciting. But actually, I LOVE this book. Really very much a lot. Like most people I have a collection of recipe books (and like most people I always seem to fall back on the same three), but my most-used recipe collection is  a lever arch folder. In it I have loosely-organised sections (dinners, baking & Christmas pretty much covers it), and I keep in there the recipes I cut...

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Win your family travel to France this year, courtesy of Brittany Ferries #WinATrip
Feb26

Win your family travel to France this year, courtesy of Brittany Ferries #WinATrip

We’re huge fans of Brittany Ferries – we’ve used them every year for the last few years, and never once have we been anything other than thrilled and excited; the ferry is never just the way of getting out of England, but rather it’s always part of the adventure. And we always choose the ferry over and above flying to get to where we’re going – with six of us, it’s just plain easier. We even...

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WinATrip Day 3 – Shepherd’s Hut Family Holiday in Cornwall, anyone?
Feb25

WinATrip Day 3 – Shepherd’s Hut Family Holiday in Cornwall, anyone?

Hidden in the heart of the Cornish countryside, Little White Alice is a unique private complex offering a cornish Family Holiday with a difference – 5* Gold luxury, but sustainable holidays in beautifully furnished green cottages. It’s a place of wide open horizons and warm luxurious interiors; a place to embrace the rhythm and nature of the changing seasons throughout the whole year. How you do that is up to you – curl up...

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Big Ole Exciting News – we’re proudly announcing ‘Have Kids, Can Travel’
Feb22

Big Ole Exciting News – we’re proudly announcing ‘Have Kids, Can Travel’

Over the last couple of years we have covered increasing amounts of family-friendly travel – everything from camping in Yorkshire to a 4,00 mile road-trip around Italy in a motorhome. The posts are some of the most enduringly popular on LittleStuff, and we know that you love to follow the adventures and see the places you might like to go. But we’re also aware that travel stuff doesn’t sit quite right within...

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