Silver Wedding Party Cocktails – Raspberry Daiquiri Pitcher Recipe
Recently we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary (yes, you’re right I really am far too young to have been married so long, thank you ). We debated for ages over what to do to celebrate, and eventually decided on a small garden party, on a grand scale, on as small a budget as we could manage.I’ve already written about the marquee (no we don’t have a big garden), the decorations and the table dressing,...
Win a winter’s worth of logs worth £220 with Certainly Wood!
So – have you lit yours yet? I’ll admit it – we gave in to the temptation last weekend, and lit our woodburner for the first time since last winter. Naturally it wasn’t really cold enough outside, and within an hour we were opening all the windows and stripping off jumpers and socks in an effort to cool down again! But even so… nothing bits that crackling warmth, does it? But of course, that means the sad...
Save 10% at Forest Holidays – EXCLUSIVE FOREST HOLIDAYS CODE!
If you rather fell in love with Forest Holidays, but missed out on the chance to win the £200 Forest Holidays voucher this week, then don’t fret – Forest Holidays have kindly created you an exclusive Forest Holidays Code, worth 10% off the cost of ANY holiday – naturally I leaped up and down as I said “BigYes, Please!” I’ve always wanted to stay in a Forest Holidays lodge. In...
Lunch with my girl #littleoneswholunch
One of the best things about Home Educating is that the whole ‘Back To School’ furore rather passes us by. Our summer takes much longer to fade and we’re really only just starting to get into the swing of an Autumnal house. But whilst we don’t do school lunches anymore, we do still do lunch (obviously… we don’t starve them…), and one of the loveliest things about home ed is actually the time...
Jeans for your man-sized boy teenager.
I thought they were tricky to find clothes for when they were six, and demanded red tractor t-shirts, soft-pyjamas-with-buttons-on-please and absolutely no yellow.But these boys of mine haven’t got any easier as they’ve got older.The trouble is, teenagers just stop being catered for specifically – around the age of 13 they suddenly disappear from the kids clothing sections; but adult clothing doesn’t really...
This is scary – 18yr olds and that credit trap…
This year I became the scared-but-proud owner of an 18yr old (I know. Frankly I *am* too young, thanks for noticing). Aside from the general astonishment that I grew this huge man-thing that looms around the house and inhales the contents of my cupboards at regular intervals in the middle of the night, this age change has brought about a not-unexpected-by-us-but-apparently-a-total-shock-to-him alteration in life view. Because,...