Monthly Archives: March 2013
Mister Rabbit, Mister Rabbit
With Easter amongst us and all the supermarket advertising that it brings, I was excited to hear one of our kiddie album favourites in our house, Burl Ives, on the Sainsbury’s ad. Not the kind of pc music you’d get put out today, this album has cows dying of measles, nearly dead bunnies, shooting geese […]
Haven Holidays Cornwall – Not Majorca
So what happens when a stress-filled, working, heavily pregnant lady with a toddler needs to renew her passport so she can go on holiday to Majorca? And what if that passport has to be printed 5000 miles away in a different country which doesn’t care how many smiley faces and ‘please’s’ you put on the […]
Yet More Sugar Cookies – It’s That Kind of a Day
With Husband away with work, what’s a better way to drown my sorrows in calories spend quality time with Weasel than making more sugar cookies. My last googled recipe was a bit crap, but I managed to find one on Allrecipes quickly this time that even lets you convert from F to C easily and […]
May the Easter Duck Bring You Chocolate
Ok, despite my current Pinterest obsession, the only arts and crafts I seem to come up with lately to keep Weasel out of trouble is card making. Another holiday? Great! Let’s make cards! I believe we may be now single-handedly keeping the Royal Mail afloat. To make life easier (i.e. I was feeling a bit […]
An Attempt at Soda Bread
I’m way too lazy nowadays to do anything exciting for St Patrick’s Day. And besides, I don’t live in the US any more, where it’s a far bigger holiday it seems than anywhere this side of the pond. So I did just about the most rock and roll thing I could think of on a […]
Brooklands Museum – Cars! Airplanes! Buses!
Having been over to Brooklands Museum for various work events and for the filming of James May’s Toy Stories (the Scalextric episode, you can even see me jumping out of the way at 4:29 in this clip, making Husband and I world record holders, along side about 3000 other people…), last autumn I figured it […]
Hello Cupcake!
You might be able to tell I’m dieting by the sheer amount of ‘quality time’ I’m spending baking with Weasel lately. I couldn’t very well let her mother/daughter bonding time be neglected just because I need to lose quite a few pounds, could I? Weasel, the 2 year old terror that she currently is, was […]
Melissa & Doug Sushi Set
I bought the Melissa & Doug sushi set because I thought it looked awesome. What could be cooler than wooden wasabi and little felt pickled ginger?And it comes with that ever useful child’s toy – a wooden meat cleaver! The nori and the roe have definitely been lost to the giant pit that is the […]
More Anti-Diet Baking with Weasel – Chocolate Chip Cookies
At the moment I think I’ll use any excuse for baking. These bad boys have 3 good excuses – a friend passed me the recipe (it would be rude not to try baking them), they were to be sold for Red Nose Day at Weasel’s nursery (it would be super rude not to bake for […]
Ask – Guildford – Sneaking Out with the Tiddler
Whilst Weasel was happily the responsibility of some long suffering nursery nurses, Husband and I snuck out to ASK in Guildford (my dictionary is telling me I must write sneaked, but that’s surely an English past participle not seen since the coal mines and cotton mills were booming?) to grab some quick lunch on your […]
adventures with gravel 