We’ve Been Baking With The Star Wars Cookbook For Kids Fancy getting in the kitchen AND some 70’s-style Star Wars nostalgia? We dusted off the Star Wars Cookbook For Kids. Fancy making some Wookie Cookies? Yoda Soda? Obi-Wan Kebabs? Han-burgers? Well the Star Wars children’s cookbook should be right up your…galaxy, far, far away. The…
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The weekly shop would cost £453 if food had risen in line with house prices…
Read moreI am currently taking a healthy interest in property prices. To be more precise, the impractical, sky-high price of London property, coupled with our need to upsize in the next year or so. Watching all the property programmes? Constantly looking at Rightmove? Yep, that’s me…it’s fair to say it’s something that’s on my mind a…
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How to be one
Read more1) Open birthday presents in your own unique style (show a fleeting bit of interest in ripping the paper, be absolutely fascinated by pulling cards out of the envelopes, put everything straight in your mouth) 2) Try your first tiny bit of birthday cake and really kind of like it, especially the pink frosting 3)…
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Transfer deadline day
Read moreToday is the football transfer deadline day. What’s that you say, football? Really? Yes! It’s a day I’ll now always remember as a year ago today it was also Eliza’s due date, which was coincidentally fitting for a baby with a sports-obsessed father, grandfather and uncles.
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Three things…from this week
Read moreAs usual, I had grand plans for a million weighty and intellectual posts about, among other things, Mary Berry’s ridiculous and outdated thoughts on maternity leave (arghh! And thanks for forever ruining GBBO for me) the government’s ill-advised and quite frankly terrifying proposals on childcare (double, fearful arghh) and the baby perfume (actually, too hilariously ridiculous…
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Baby steps
Read moreSo we’ve had quite a week! There were lots of things I was going to write about in this post. Like how we’re getting on so much better following Eliza’s first full three days at nursery (once she’s distracted she really likes it, once I’m distracted I’m not quite as emotional as I was last…
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What’s your healthy eating IQ? £50 Co-Op voucher giveaway
Read moreWhat’s everyone’s post-baby diet like? When I was pregnant I was really healthy; I ate loads of fruit and veg, drank a lot of water and had three proper meals a day (OK, so I did also develop a sweet tooth and cravings for strawberry milkshake, but you get the gist). But my post-baby daytime…