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Ok I’m not strictly qualified to write this post just yet as the house move has not yet been successfully completed but have a few choice gems to share from others who have recently relocated their family home and am so pleased I listened to their advice. 1. You can never have too many strong [...] My lovely friend Bryony came over yesterday and sympathised with me about the huge number of fruit flies swarming around the kitchen as she had a similar experience last week. The children and I had returned from a long weekend away while Bealers was doing a long mountainous camping trip to find the plate of [...] Both Edie and Mo and also their little friend Bella who came all the way from London to visit us with her mum this weekend have been covered in insect bites. Beki thought that Bella had been bitten by fleas as they have a cat and I’d been telling my kids that it must be [...] At the beginning of April I planted my ‘early’potatoes (a variety of spud which is ready to eat early in the season) and ‘main crop’potatoes (a different sort which is ready later in the season –and bigger? I’m not entirely sure yet) in a couple of trenches (about 20-30cm deep) next to [...] We’ve just come back from an idyllic 4 days away by the seaside enjoying really special cloudless blue skies and warm temperatures but as soon as we got back home I felt so blue by what seemed to be an enormous mountain of chores staring at me from each room. The kids playroom is looking [...] Having had a couple of abortive attempts at celebrating the 5th November in previous years since the kids were born we finally had a lovely little pagan-style celebration at the weekend with a small bonfire,a pumpkin with candles,sparklers and hot dogs. The kids loved it but only because we’d (a) started [...] Another post which starts with the disclaimer ‘Sorry to everyone who was shown this trick when they were mini and therefore thinks this as being another piece of obvious knowledge’… But to all the people out there who,like me,weren’t born knowing that the best place to keep the role of bin bags is [...] The other day we chanced upon a toy library when we had to go and pick up some business cards for my husband. It was tucked away on a little tiny business park but had bright coloured signage. Today we went with proof of address back to join Borrowers Toy Library and all three of [...] A simple swap to make life easy when bunging the ingredients in the breadmaker last thing at night especially when doing it after a nice bath and in fresh clean pyjamas when the last thing you want to do is get sticky ingredients all over you… Although the recipe calls for tablespoonfuls of butter instead [...] | ||||||
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