With lots of people starting puzzling (or doing more puzzles) over the last year while being stuck at home more, puzzles are so much harder to come by. Especially the new releases. Wasgij have been particularly hard to find. I…
Recipe for easy cherry bakewell fudge, made in the microwave It’s been a while since I made fudge, but I had cherry bakewell on the list to make since summer. I’ve finally had some cherries in, and got round to…
Happy new year. Here’s hoping 2021 isn’t as painful as 2020. Our county entered tier 4 as of Boxing Day, but pretty much all of the south and Midlands, plus some in the north west also moved into tier 4…
Well, we’ve reached the end of 2020 (nearly), and I’m not sure we can breathe that sigh of relief quite yet. It’ll be a never forgotten year in history, and one that I’m sure we all wish was long gone…
I hope everyone had a merry Christmas however it turned out. It certainly wasn’t a Christmas anyone could have foreseen. On the stroke of midnight on Boxing Day, our county along with most of the south and east of the…
I’ve been working my way through Wasgij puzzles the last year or so, but there’s so many more still to find and do. I try and get them second hand when I can, and one I did a while back…
Every year I plan to make decorations and this year I have got round to it. Usually it’s nice to be able to persuade N to craft with me, but this year he wasn’t so keen. He’s liked to see…
One of the things that Christmas provides for everyone is memories. Generally good memories, with many of them captured on camera to look back on over the years. As children, our parents take photos to put in albums and years…
I love playing board games, and my childhood Christmasses always had one game or another. When we were with my nan, she loved to play charades (although she was terrible at it), with friends we played Pictionary, and just us…
We’re into the Chirstmas holidays and it’s been the weirdest winter term so far. Our school is lucky – there’s been no bubbles sent home, no isolations as far as I know. Being a small school in a rural area,…
With just under a week for Christmas, it’s all change again with life in Covid times. School has finished with secondary children having staggered starts back in January after mass testing. And the announcement on Saturday of London and the…
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