Silent Sunday…(14 July 2013)

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The biggest and most highly anticipated meal of the year in our household is without a doubt the superbly indulgent Christmas dinner. Normally cooked by my husband, last year I took up the challenge and decided I would become the yuletide chef and create our celebratory feast from then onwards. Our oven will be one…
After last week’s adventures with Flora in London at the Grain Store, I’ve been willing Spring to come around faster so that I can get our seeds started ready for growing again. Each year we try and grow more and more of our own vegetables and fruit in the garden – and simultaneously protect them from the…
It’s big, hairy spider week here in Hampshire. Seriously, they are EVERYWHERE. The false widow we found on the trampoline yesterday [and swiftly relocated] was by far the biggest I’ve seen, and the pyjama spiders [garden orbital ones, we call them Miss Muffet spiders or pyjama spiders, depending on how stripey they look] on the bushes…
Before I was a parent, I had time to myself. Quite honestly, since my boys arrived, taking care of myself has become a permanent backseat priority. I used to have nice hair, make up and nails – and now I have a ponytail or plait, I’m fresh faced and my nails are bare. I’m a…
Do you completely overspend on your groceries every. single. week? I realised just how much we spend on food when I looked over the mister’s bank statements this past week. Over £1,000 a month, easily. And yet each week by around Wednesday we’re stuck deciding what we can make from the contents of our cupboard….