How to get children to like vegetables

My son really disliked peas. The way to get him to finally after years of cajoling him try some and announce ‘Yum!’was staightforward but long winded in the extreme. I had to sow peas,grow peas,stake the peas,have the children pick the peas,shell the peas and only then did he feel [...]

How to make coleslaw

When our friend asked if there was anything needing doing in the kitchen the other day I told her no because I only had to make a bit of coleslaw before we were ready to eat two minutes later.

When she asked me how to make it I made a note to myself to add [...]

A great salsa recipe

(This is blatantly pilfered from my husband’s blog but luckily we exchanged vows in 2001 stating what’s mine is his and vice versa)

Ozficici Salsa

June 24th,2007 by Bealers

For a while now I’ve been seeking the Holy Grail in salsas with my efforts to-date not really cutting it in both [...]

A child’s close encounter with a pornographic magazine

We had a really close shave on Sunday. I took the children to the local car boot sale for a VERY VERY special treat. They were thrilled to be going and within minutes we had found the treasures we had had on our wish lists for ages:a pretty swinging crib and high chair for [...]

Willow den update

Loads of visitors have wondered what we have growing over our willow den to make it look so leafy so I thought I’d post an update to the original post ‘How to make a willow den for under £40′so that anyone interested in making one next year will see that it GETS LEAFY ALL [...]

How to create a mini pond

Last month my daughter and I decided to create a mini pond in our rented garden with the hope of finding some frogspawn to come and live in it.

We built the pond from an inexpensive ‘tub trug’and placed loads of rocks in it and around it so the small creatures could get in [...]

Wetsuits extend play time at the seaside for children

Goodness me it’s been nearly a fortnight since I last wrote. Time flies when you’re suffering from a mysterious virus which makes you sleep all the time at the same time as four year old twins struggle through chicken pox!

I’ve been looking at the photos I took BEFORE I drenched my beloved camera with [...]

A natural miracle:Cayenne pepper cures sore throats

Wow,I’m truly amazed. I have had a sore throat that has been getting steadily worse and worse for a few days now. It is getting to the point where I can’t swallow and even my ears were beginning to hurt and I was worrying that I might have full blown tonsillitis.

I typed in [...]

Having a Caravan Awning Is Brilliant

Bealers was most definitely right to insist we budget for buying an awning to attach to the side of our new caravan. Having an awning doubled our living space which was especially great for the 24 hours when the weather was ferocious.

While the 60km winds whipped around the campsite and horizontal freezing rain lashed [...]