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Archive for February 2020

Nutmeg Street: Egyptian Secrets, By Sherrill Joseph

I am always on the look out for new children’s authors to inspire my children and I have found a new one! Nutmeg Street: Egyptian Secrets is fun and reminds me of the plucky children from Enid Blyton’s Five Find Outters that I read as a child. The book is aimed at children aged 9-12 […]

#StayClassyMama 68

Hello and welcome to the #StayClassyMama linky. Finally January is over and February is racing by! How are you all? I am thrilled to be joined by new regular hosts, Karen from Cats, Kids, Chaos and Sophie from Mummy of a Square Peg! And we have a new badge for 2020, please make sure you update […]

Is Valentine’s Day worth celebrating?

OK, so I am not the most romantic of people and luckily I have married my equal in Chris. Valentine’s means nothing to us, an over-comericalised load of nonsense. We may go out for dinner at some point in the weeks either side but definitely not on the day due to the over inflated prices […]

Eat Happy Too, by Anna Vocino

Being gluten free doesn’t mean flavour free. Finding alternatives to traditional flours can be experimental at best and a complete disaster at worst! I was excited to read Eat Happy Too, the second gluten free cookbook from Anna Vocino which includes sauces and pastries, cakes and biscuits which all traditionally rely on gluten. I’ll be […]

#DreamTeam 190

Thank you for being so welcoming as I join #DreamTeam with 3 Little Buttons and Navigating Baby as a permanent host, yay exciting! It is our last #DreamTeam of January (such a loooooong month!) Take a look at the rules, add our badge (I’m on it now!) and join us for the Dream Team linky! […]