BEKO DW663 Review – Best Family Full-size Integrated Dishwasher
We’ve been asked to run a BEKO DW663 Review – we’re a large family, and our dishwasher has to work hard to keep up. Here’s what we honestly thought of it… We know from bitter personal experience that not all dishwashers are created equal. We’ve had the cheapest of the cheap, and we’ve had the less modestly-priced versions (I’ll admit we’ve never tried the properly top-end ones, our...
Spotted! Quirky Hare doormat (and there’s cats too!)
A Hare Doormat! Oh me oh my, it’s a thing of beauty. It’s a doormat – with HARES on! Such pretty hares, too… (Hares are the new Owls… you knew that, right?) The quirky design is in all the shades of spring – I just love it. And so darn practical too! Have you seen Turtle Mats yet? If not, and in your house you have children, dogs, a gardener or anyone whoever steps outside… you NEED one....
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....
Happy New Year!
Well, we made it through an utterly brilliant 2014, and tonight we’ll welcome in 2015. We have high expectations for the coming year – 2014 was so good, 2015 has a lot to live up to. New Years celebrations change over time, don’t they? We had family parties as I grew up. In my teens we had some slightly wilder parties and pubs and clubs to go to. After we were married there was the spell that we both worked in a...
When LittleStuff had a cottage holiday in the Brecon Beacons – Llwyn-y-neuadd
If you’re looking for a peaceful and remote cottage for a family holiday filled with good old-fashioned fun, then this might be just the place for you. Just finding Llwyn-y-neuadd on a map is an adventure in itself, and when you see the track and think you’re nearly there – well, the adventure’s really just getting going. Because you need to navigate up the hill on an unmade ancient drover’s road...