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Homemade Christmas Pot Pourri [How To Dry Oranges]
Our homemade pot pourri is in progress – for the first time ever, we dried fruit! It was surprisingly simple. If you want to make some [and make your house smell very Christmassy indeed], all you need are the oranges, cloves, a baking tray, baking paper and an oven. Heat your oven to its lowest…
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A NO LAUGHING [COUGHING OR SNEEZING] MATTER: LIGHTS BY TENA
There are taboos, and then there are taboos. This is one of those ones. You know, an issue that so many of us face but don’t talk about because it’s not that nice and we wish it wasn’t happening to us. Well, I’m 38, I’ve carried three near ten pound boys wayyy over term, and…
EUROPEAN WEEK OF WASTE REDUCTION 2014: DOING OUR BIT WITH gNAPPIES AND HOTBIN
It was recently European Week for Waste Reduction 2014! I must admit, I knew little about it at the time, but it’s something we all need to be concentrating on – and in our house we really are. When we were invited to try the gorgeous gNappies, we were also sent an amazing piece of…
IBM Father Christmas 2014 – The Grotto
On Friday night, IBM Father Christmas visited the IBM Clubhouse. He’s not THE Father Christmas, he’s special. We wandered through his magical grotto after checking in with his elves. The Christmas village was beautiful. Every year I vow to start one of our own. We met the jolly man, who gave us a mosaic…
IBM Father Christmas
We saw “IBM Father Christmas” yesterday. Yes, that’s his name. He brings presents to all of the boys and girls of IBM parents, then he goes off to help the normal Father Christmas, apparently. He also provides a magic show, disco, face painter and card making station. He’s pretty amazing.