I’ve been closely following the programme ‘Back In Time For Dinner’ where a family have spent a week at a time living and eating the life of decades gone by. Their own house has been renovated to transport them through the fifties, sixties, seventies and so on and as well as having new clothes, hair styles and hobbies they have had to prepare and eat typical food from the times they are investigating. It’s so interesting to see how food […]

A few week’s ago Sainsbury’s sent me a bulb of the new black garlic they are selling. It costs £1.50 per bulb and is completely different in flavour to white garlic despite the fact it is one and the same only with a gently aged process. They say that the soft jelly-like cloves add molasses and balsamic flavours to anything you cook and I wondered how they would come out with a pizza bread? I often do caramelised red onion, garlic […]

Last year we went to Camp Bestival and I absolutely LOVE our photographs which show exactly what a crazy, fun and amazing time we had! We had a little camp in a circle with some friends of ours and looking at the pictures it just takes me right back to the summer! I’ve been meaning to do something with them all other than just having them on my computer and Facebook but have been quite lazy about it and it’s […]

When I was pregnant with Jimmy I knew he was a boy instinctively. We didn’t find out just as we hadn’t with Florence but like the first time when I knew a baby girl was on the way it was my sixth sense which told me he was going to be a he and I was absolutely right of course. My little bump got patted and touched by friends, family and strangers (how come people do that eh?) and most […]

A nice cup of tea… everyone loves one. My Mum loves it so much that when she goes on holiday she even takes her own tea bags with her because she doesn’t think you can get a strong enough cup on the continent. She likes it dark and strong and probably drinks about ten cups a day. I love tea too but I’m very different in my drinking, I very rarely have an English Breakfast and if I do then […]

Ever the Pizza Express fans and it’s never a chore to write about our experiences of dining in them. We visit them a lot and I can’t help, whether invited to or not, but write about when we have had a really good meal (as we so very often do) whether I have been invited to for the blog or we have just been because we chose to. Jonny actually pointed out that he can’t remember the last time he had a […]

As soon as Florence saw Little Live Pets, which was in the summer of last year just as they were being launched, she absolutely loved them. The little birds which whistle and repeat what you say are absolutely gorgeous; we don’t know anyone who has played with one who hasn’t fallen in love! We have a little bird and both the children play with it regularly, in fact my Mum bought another different one for Florence as an Easter present […]

As massive Frozen fans (of course), we were mega excited for the much anticipated new ‘short’, Frozen Fever, which accompanies Disney’s latest blockbuster, Cinderella! Of course we were excited to see Cinderella too but really, if I’m honest, it was second in our priorities when it came to the watching… Little did we know though that Cinderella would steal out hearts so much that we’d forget we’d even seen Frozen Fever until we were half way home, still smiling about the […]

Florence has always been very crafty and even before she turned one I can remember her sitting and sticking on her own very engrossed in what she was doing. It was no surprise then, that when we went to an event for Save The children’s Christmas Jumper campaign, that she was totally interested in knitting. She finds it a little hard to do with needles because her hands are so small but she loves to do finger knitting and knitting on […]

Yesterday we kicked off the Easter holidays in style by finishing school at 2pm and promptly taking a trip to the Westfield shopping centre near us so that we could sit on Italian Vespas and eat ice cream, it’s just how we roll! When Jimmy and I rocked up to the school gates for the early pick up we had sun shine beaming down on us and it was saying CELEBRATE! How could we refuse… Ice cream was the perfect […]