No one can accuse me of loving Baby G any less than his big sister but, since becoming the mother of more than one child, some of my practices have become…lacking, shall we say. Despite being only seven months in, my effort in doing less or being economical with time deserves some kind of award….
The last time I can remember visiting a Beefeater restaurant, the logo looked like a Pacman and I got a free cup with a special hole on the top for a straw. When we were invited to review the newly refurbished Micklehead Green in St Helens, we went along not knowing what to expect. The…
You know when you go to posh restaurants and they write happy birthday on your plate in chocolate or in nice coffee shops, words like tirimasu are carefully scrolled on your saucer? I’ve always wanted to recreate it at home. To be honest though, I’ve never had the will or the inclination to melt chocolate to the…
You must have noticed that when you buy certain products in shops that some produce has a Red Tractor sticker on it and some don’t. Buying items with the Red Tractor sticker means that the farm where the food is produced has been through a rigorous inspection to check things like biosecurity and animal welfare….
The blog has been a bit quiet the last week or two. As regular readers know, I like to post five times a week-sometimes more but I haven’t recently. There is a reason. You see I have a small amount of free time and, what time I have, I write. Recently though, my hands have…
The Cake & Bake Show, the UK’s biggest baking show is coming to Manchester, Event City from November the 12th-15th and I cannot wait. The show organisers have just announced that, for the first time, a Great British Bake Off Live Stage will be at this year’s shows, where visitors will be able to see…
Tomorrow marks the start of Gas Safety Week. According to the Gas Safety Register, some 23 million homes in the UK and Channel Islands use gas for heating, hot water and cooking, yet we take it for granted that our boilers, cookers and gas fires are safe. Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas appliances can…
It is a sad realisation that Summer is over. I think September is technically the start of Autumn but with the rubbish weather we have had here this year, I think we have all been crossing our fingers that we might just get one more week of warm, dry weather. As I looked up at…
Prams are such a personal thing. They usually cost quite a lot of money and, if you don’t think about your lifestyle and where you will be using your pram, you could make a very expensive and spectacular mistake. For example, if you will be using public transport a lot, you need a lightweight, slimline vehicle…