Growing up my family had a few Christmas traditions that I remember. Christmas eve for example was a big night. There was cake, new jammies, a movie and leaving a treat for Santa. In the mo…

I’m in shock. I was snuggled up the other night on the sofa watching Fantastic beasts when M walked in. “Who is that?” pointing to Jude Law who plays young Dumbledore. I tell him, which pro…

If lockdown has taught me anything, its that there is always a way to adapt. And that covered how we dealt with food too. Round here it was hard to get things like rolls and bread, and when …

The Summer holiday is over and the schools are opened full time as of tomorrow. So in order to keep my mind calm and send M in with some sweet treats in his packed lunch, I've been baki…

M loves his cookies, but there is a habit forming that “you can’t just have one” so rather than just making normal cookies, I decided to make mega ones. These are chunky cookies that are ki…

Possible TW - Cancer, Gynaecological issues, Death Bit of a weird few days but now that I’m home and have been really thinking about things I feel a need to post. Early hours on Thursday I w…

So much as happened since I put my blog on hold. Too much really to delve into but the most recent thing of course being the whole world getting hit with the Covid-19 pandemic.  Here in the …