Win a £130 Tea Bundle (that’s 400 cups of tea!) from Adagio Tea. Oh yes.
Tea. It’s not secret round here that I love the stuff. And like so many things in life, I’ve grown a little more selective in my old age. Once I thought tea only came in packs of 240 small white bags (unless you were at Granny’s house. She messed around with a pot and a strainer and there were always little black bits floating in it like dead ants… and not in a good squashed-flies- Garibaldi-biscuits way). But...
The Influence of Childhood Mental Health on Adulthood
Experts call a child’s mental health the most important part of their social and cognitive development. For a child to live up to their potential and live a happy and well-adjusted life, they must have a healthy frame of mind. Good mental health is also tied to wanting what’s best for themselves and those around them. Understanding childhood mental health is an important first step in protecting children around the...
The Single Biggest Parenting Lesson We All Need to Learn.
I wrote recently about taking a pretty joyous day off.And when I say a ‘day off’, I don’t meant a ‘don’t go to work, but do the laundry, dusting, grocery shopping and clean out the fridge’ kind of day off.No. Thanks to a One4All Gift card, I grabbed the chance of a real actual day off. Sorry to be a living cliche, but the first thing I did was go shoe shopping (yes, I may have stroked the pretties...
Warm salad of Roasted Butternut Squash, Chorizo and Chickpeas
Loving this hearty salad with bags of punchy flavour from Bacofoil. Roasted squash pairs perfectly with chorizo and chickpeas in this warming and colourful salad dish. Quick and easy to make, this flavourful dish tastes great whether served hot or cold. Perfect for a veggie guests – or simply for something healthy but hearty in the post-Christmas quiet zone. ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH, CHORIZO AND CHICKPEA SALAD Serves: 4 as a...
6 small ways to save money on your weekly shop
If you’re scanning your receipts with raised eyebrows and wondering where your week’s worth of cash has gone, you’re not alone. Lots of us are confused as to how we spend so much on our weekly shop, only to have all the good food vanish fast and still require a top-up mid-week. I’ve come up with a few pointers that have steered me well recently. Don’t be a slave to brands While we’ve all got our favourites, we don’t have to cave in to...
Will your daughter play for SSE WildCats? | Girls Football
There’s nothing worse than dragging your child somewhere they don’t want to go, is there? Actually, there is. Dragging your child somewhere that they don’t want to go – that you’re only going to because you think they’ll love it. And so it was last Saturday, when I poked the reluctant Bear from her lovely Saturday lie-in so that we could make the training session for the local SSE Wildcats Girls...