Today’s guest post is part of the Red House Children’s Book Award blog tour, and is an interview with Steve Cole who has been shortlisted in the category for younger children for his book Go to Sleep or I Let Loose the Leopard
In the old days BC (before children!) when the OH and I could afford the time and money to eat out, we would often eat out at a delicious local Chinese restuarant and we would always have a crispy duck for starters. Duck is not a meat I would ever to choose to eat normally, … [Read more…]
One of the best things about hosting/attending a party or even about Christmas, is having an excuse to go out and buy some nibbles. I love nothing more than on Christmas Day night, when quite frankly I would have eaten a massive roast dinner and a delicious pudding which should see me through until Boxing … [Read more…]
Bird Eye have just added two new products to their frozen steamed vegetable range and to celebrate this the brand are hosting a Pick and Mix stand with a difference for commuters at Waterloo Station in London. Instead of sweets, the pick and mix will be filled with vegetables which the passers by can steam after, … [Read more…]
I don’t have any memories of Halloween from my childhood because my family never celebrated it. I never went trick or treating or to any Hallowe’en themed parties – it just was not such a cultural phenomenon that it has suddenly become nowadays.