A few weeks ago, Mackays sent me some festive jam and marmalade. I made something with the jam a week or so ago so next up was the marmalade. We had a little Christmas party at my mum’s at weekend so I offered to bake a cake. I decided on a chocolate orange cake as…
There’s something about Christmas and parties that really makes me think of one thing. Trifle. My mum makes the best trifle ever and my nan made great trifle too. A couple of months ago, I bought a pair of boots from Next. They didn’t fit so. In what can only be described as the…
Not having a drink when I was pregnant with Boo just wasn’t a problem. This time though, there has been more than one occasion when I could have really done with a glass of wine or a vodka. Maybe it is something to do with looking after a small child, who knows? I obviously haven’t…
We love making things with salt dough all year round, not just for Christmas, but as the season draws near, it is a cheap activity that all children will enjoy doing. All you need is salt, water and plain four. I have specified plain because once we only had self-raising flour and the decorations were…
