Easy World Book Day Costumes – You’ve Got This!
Come on, we all know it’s true. A part of our brain always dreads World Book Day, and honestly just thinks that there are no Easy World Book Day Costumes. Of course it’s a wonderful scheme, and anything at all which gets kids engaged and involved with books wins my vote. But. Ye gods, it’s not like we parents don’t have enough to do, is it? We may Home Educate now, but trust me, I’ve been there.Oh yes....
Our Favourite Christmas Mugs for Teens – 2020 Edit
It’s a well known fact that the topselling gifts on Amazon are consistently mugs – and it’s the same for Christmas mugs, and twicely so for Christmas Mugs for Teens. We all have our favourites; and frankly you need a different one for every drink. The perfect tea mug is NOT a perfect coffee mug, and hot chocolate presents it’s own set of mug requirements. We also have favourite mugs for different times of the...
Our Best Christmas Jumpers in 2019
I know it’s a bit weird – Best Christmas Jumpers is a bit of an oxymoron, isn’t it? But that’s rather the point – Christmas Jumpers are supposed to be awful. They were once a thing of style, and then they became laughably questionable… and now they’ve swung full circle. We LOVE a terrible Christmas jumper. The Best Christmas Jumpers are truly hideous, and yet come the Christmas season we don...
Simple Steps for a Stress-Free Dinner Party
Last week we had friends over for dinner – and I realised that a Stress-Free Dinner Party is the latest in the long line of things I appear to have conquered without being aware I’d done so. Our Friday night entertaining was nothing big, nothing fancy; just having some friends over for a few hours, and feeding them. Calling it a ‘dinner party’ would be seriously stretching it – and yet in years past this...
Adult Advent Calendars for Grown Ups! 2023
Well we can’t let the kids have all the fun. We are all over the Advent Calendars for Grown Ups. It’s a horrible dark winter morning, you’re out of bed at way-too-early o’clock; what better way to cheer yourself up before you head out into the cold and wet than to open a little door full of joy – that is ALL FOR YOU? I mean, some self-indulgence now and again never goes amiss (‘self-care’ I believe we call it these days)....
The Ingredients for Family Movie Night
We’ve been looking at the new Autumn-Winter range from Fox & Ivy – Tesco’s own luxury brand of homewares and soft furnishings. They challenged us to pick the key ingredients for Family Movie Night from the range; knowing how perfectly our outdoor cinema was thanks to them, I didn’t bat an eyelid and headed straight to my local Tesco Extra… See, there are just a few key ingredients for a truly successful movie night –...