I have owned a slow cooker for several years now – probably at least 15 years and in all that time I have never cooked a dessert in one! Considering how much I love puddings, this is a surprise even to me! On Friday while it was still October, or for users of the crockpot #Crocktober … [Read more…]
When I was at BritmumsLive (yes this is an overdue post – ooops!) I met the people from Paragon Books and agreed to become a book buddy. I was sent away with two really lovely cookery books from their Love Food Cookbooks range. When I say lovely I really mean it. These two books are … [Read more…]
We love, like totally LOVE , books written by Julia Donaldson. We have quite a collection now and what I adore about them asides from the brilliant characters, illustrations and the clever stories is the fact that they tend to be written in rhyme. This makes it easy for Burton and even Jenson to ‘read’ … [Read more…]
I sometimes find myself watching Cbeebies and thinking what a load of *insert chosen adjective here* about certain programmes that I find myself and my children watching. Some are beyond me, like Baby Jake, which I still don’t ‘get’ and that rabbit is just freaky. Yet my two like dancing to the songs, so I … [Read more…]
We are big book fans in this house and although sadly I don’t get the time to read any myself at the moment, I love reading stories to the boys, and they have had them included as part of their daily lives since they were very small. Daddy reads to Burton ever night before he … [Read more…]