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Hands up of you dread housework. Hands up if you keep procrastinating, till the last minute, till you are expecting guests or just can’t bare the state any more … then when you’ve finally done it, wish you always had your house so nice, clean and tidy. Well that would be me! I hate a [...]
This post is dedicated to National Vegetarian Week and was inspired by Chris Mosler a fellow blogger, who shares the most delicious vegetarian dishes over on her blog, as well as inspiring parents into the gardening with kids. A couple of weeks ago, thanks to a Britmums meetup, I was taken into a fairyland right on [...]
As part of the One corner at a time to a Happy Home challenge I’ve set myself I started with what was the smallest corner, but probably the messiest: the understairs cupboard. This area was a desolate wasteland, a dumping ground. The shelves were too wide, so I couldn’t see what was on there and [...]
A couple of weeks ago I entered a TOTs100 competition to redo one of our rooms- I focused on our living room. In researching what I actually wanted to do I found some fabulous ideas. There are some amazing resources on the Internet, great blogs which focus on decluttering, organising, cleaning. Pinterest provides ample visual [...]
. The other day I expressed my frustration at not knowing where to start with finishing our house renovation project – the living room, the kitchen or the bathroom- and put it out there for debate as well as sitting together with family. In prioritising I have gone with which is going to help my [...]
Time to regain some momentum on our house renovation and finish it off. We’ve done the big things: the loft conversion and extension, the rear extension to create that all important family/ playroom linked to the kitchen. Now it’s time to do the living room, finish the kitchen and the bathroom.
. . Do you sometimes cook things that have very specific, maybe special memories attached to? You know, when the thought of the dish fills you with not just the warm and fuzzy, like a Christmas Turkey reviving all the warmth of happy family dinners (or not), when life was simpler (or not), …but instead [...]
. . Little Man had asked for a special Lightning McQueen cake for his 3rd birthday. I made the base as described in my previous post. Then it was time to get on with icing. By this time Baby had fallen asleep. It was past 11 pm and in discussing how to go about it [...]
. . Little Man had requested a Lightning McQueen cake for his third birthday. I had toyed with the idea of just popping down to the supermarket for a cake, but then decided home-made would be cheaper, bigger and better quality. Little did I realise what I had let myself in for: I asked my [...]
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...AND to add to the challenge I have a grueling 11 week bootcamp leading up to the skydive- I have to loose 2 stone/ 18 kg/ 28 lb
