As we grow up, we go through phases of cooking and meal preparation. From uni where you probably have a handful of meals you cook (spaghetti bolognese, jacket potatoes and stir fries were my staples), through to more exciting experimental meals. Then settling into a regular meal routine of family favourites. Recipe books can be…
My reading habits and how to make time to read
I love to read, and always have done. It’s one of the reasons I despair at N not being that interested in reading himself. He loves books and having someone else read him a story, but I’m still trying to find the book that is going to be the one to get him to read…
Books to inspire 7-11 year old reluctant readers
Mention World book day and many parents sigh with having to organise or make costumes (unless your child is like N who so far has refused to dress up each year). In our case this year, N announced that he was going to dress up – and decided that George from George’s Marvellous Medicine was…
Fun alternative advent calendar ideas with Scholastic
Advent is such an exciting time of year for children. The bubbling anticipation of Christmas, the countdown and wishes that are made. And children love the tradition of a daily advent calendar. In our house we do our own version of a chocolate advent calendar. We have a fabric calendar with pockets and drop in…
Should you use or lose your guilty pleasures?
Hands up. I admit it. I have guilty pleasures. Some of which are secret guilty habits. And truthfully, some of them I don’t feel guilty about at all. Some might call them vices, and I guess if you think of vices as being bad for you, then my food guilty habits are probably vices. I’ve…
