I am both a cleaning fan and hater all in one! While I hate the thought of having to clean the house and hate the actual process of doing it, I can’t bear dirt and mess and simply have to do a weekly deep clean or I feel funny! I don’t know why it is but I often go to other people’s houses and notice their dirt and I’d be mortified if anyone noticed it in my house so I […]

I have always had very inexpensive handsets for my land line phones. I’m not particularly technological and on the one occasion when I was given an old phone which was a little bit super from my Uncle, I ruined it within weeks by replacing the battery for a normal AA one and effectively killing it dead… I hadn’t realised you had to use the special AA rechargeable batteries that came with the phone… From then and coupled with the fact […]

Potato, Butterbean and Tomato Croquettes Ingredients 1 medium-sized potato Plain flour for dusting A teaspoon of butter A handful of frozen peas A tablespoon of tinned butterbeans (drained) A tablespoon of left over tomato sauce (bolognese, cassoulet, arrabbiata, whatever you have) Extra Virgin Olive Oil Method Peel and chop the potato and boil it with the peas until soft. In When cooked, add them to a bowl with the butterbeans, butter and tomato sauce until all combined. Mould into small […]

When Florence was born and sleep deprivation hit me for the first time I spent three weeks being up in the night every twenty minutes after she’d fallen asleep. The time in between when she was awake could last hours but I tried and tried to keep getting her to drift off by all methods possible. I would then gently lower her into the expensive and beautiful moses basket and slowly remove my hands until the last tip of the […]

Before I had children and was still a working gal I volunteered to take British Red Cross first aid training for in the work place. Why not I thought? Work was paying for it, it was time out of the office and it’s a skill. Really and truly, just as with giving blood, my main point of choosing to do it at that time was to break up the day, do something different and get out of sitting behind my desk for a few […]

 Mini Sweetcorn and Spring Onion Scotch Pancakes  Ingredients  1 medium free range eggs 70g plain flour 100ml of breast or whole milk 50g of tinned sweetcorn 2 chopped spring onions Extra Virgin Olive Oil Method Put all of the ingredients into a bowl and blend using a hand blender. There is no need to whisk the batter up before adding the sweet corn and spring onions as blending does the job for you. Heat a little olive oil in a […]

Mini Pea and Cheese Frittatas Ingredients 4 medium free range eggs A handful of frozen peas A handful of grated cheddar cheese 50ml of breast or whole milk Extra Virgin Olive Oil Method Using a piece of kitchen paper and a small amount of extra virgin olive oil, grease the insides of a 12 bun fairy cake tin. Cook, drain and mush using a fork, the frozen peas then add to a bowl with the eggs, cheese and milk and […]

When I started weaning with Florence I found it incredibly difficult to get her to eat anything at all. She just wasn’t interested and her take on food hasn’t really changed much. She doesn’t seem to need or want much of it at all, doesn’t appear to eat much for pleasure and is eager to get the whole process out-of-the-way so that she can get on with whatever else she’s busy with. I tried to feed her everything from purees […]