This recipe is generally very popular with children (though it failed on Sunday, probably due to Rosemary and her two friends having far too much fun to sit down and eat food). The magic ingredient is probably the shaped pasta, which we get from our local healthfood shop, Sunshine Health. …
We’ve always used a very basic thermometer – the kind you stick in your mouth and have to hold under your tongue for about a minute. Not quite your lethal mercury thermometer and still digital, but pretty darned useless for kids, really. We also have one of those strips you …
We interrupt normal service to bring you some politics (with some swearing – toned down incredibly from what I was shouting at the computer last night). Frankly, a welfare cheat is no different from someone who comes up and robs you in the street. It’s your money. George Osborne, talking …
In August, we went out and bought Rosemary’s school uniform. There was a list of items, which included things like: school sweatshirt (worn once so far, incidentally, and bought two of them) summer dress grey, navy or black dress, skirt or trousers, black shoes white or blue polo shirts black …
A while ago I said I would tell Josie about my fairy godmother (I can’t find the post where I said this in a reply, but I’m sure I did!) and I’m very pleased to find this week’s Writing Workshop has a prompt that will help me do that (well, …
This week’s gallery theme is Here come the girls. What a great theme. Here are some of the girls who are important to me. (There are, of course, others, but I don’t have easily accessible photos of them!) This is me, my American cousin Sally Anne (who now lives in …
This is what Eleanor tends to do when she wakes up in the middle of the night (wakes up properly I mean – not when she wakes up, has some milk then goes straight back to sleep): Now (showing off cute pictures of my almost-one-year-old daughter aside), I am obviously …
Wouldn’t it be great to have a buddy system for new parents, as well as for new children?
Here are some images to whet your appetite. I posted a recipe recently and have a fair few more planned. I’m hoping to do at least one a week, but you know me – life will probably get in the way of that. Vegetable lasagne With a meat version to …
I’ve been collecting together photos of some of our staple meals to start a new recipe series – ones I really like, ones Chris really likes and ones Rosemary really likes (not always the same thing). Eleanor? She’ll eat anything. As will the dog – unless it contains egg or …
