Should I make my own Christmas cake?

Two of my already domesticated girlfriends asked me this weekend whether I had made my Christmas cake yet.

There is a great recipe in my cooking file ripped from last years Good Housekeeping entitled ‘The Easiest Christmas Cake Ever’. I made it last November and it tasted great but scanning over the list of ingredients [...]

60,441,457 million less pieces of rubbish each day

On our way to pick up some Freecycled jam jars today the kids and I happened across a beautiful playground today with great wooden structures,fresh bark chippings to fall onto and a great view of the nearby hills. It was a nice tidy clean playground so when a crisp packet blew towards me without [...]

School uniforms with logos are a rip off

A letter from our local rag (Worcester Gazette)caught my eye…

John Brayne from Redditch wrote:

“I felt the need to write regarding the huge financial burden placed on financially hard-pressed parents.

A new trend since the days of my sensible schooling is to have the school logo on each of the items that the children [...]

The love between a mother and child

I’ve just been given a calendar for 2007 which has lots of nice pictures and quotes about motherhood. Here are some of the less cheesey ones.

‘Children should be educated and instructed in the principals of freedom.’–John Adams

‘My mother had a great deal of trouble with me but [...]

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