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Autumn in England
There are many things about life and living in the UK that it seems, even after eight years, that I will just never get on board with. There are things that make me realise painfully, that this is not...
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Kids in the Kitchen
When Ameli was 10 months old, I had a visit with a health visitor, who told me I had to put a stair gate up on the kitchen door, so that Ameli couldn’t be in the kitchen while I was cooking, because...
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How To: Send A Hug In An Envelope
It’s my sister’s 30th birthday today, and while I’ve been doing my best to not think about it, since thinking about it causes me physical pain in my chest, I did have a moment a few weeks ago where I...
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I Can Cook’s Spiced Fun Buns Recipe (Adapted)
Ameli loves BBC’s I Can Cook. In fact she actually giggles with glee when we put it on TV for her, and she sits, absolutely mesmerised by Katie, the host. I decided to capitalise on that, since we do...
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Little Cooks – Fruit Smoothie Recipe
I really like the Little Cooks recipes, because they’re generally pretty simple, and not too unhealthy either. I was quite excited by the Strawberry Sundae recipe as I thought it would be nice and...
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How To: Make Bird Feeders For The Garden
It’s spring time and while the weather is horrible and Ameli is young, I see no reason why not to get her as involved in nature as possible. We have a garden which is pretty small and currently...
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Little Cooks – Amazing Apple (Or Berry) Cake
Issue 4 of the Little Cooks Dora the Explorer magazines brings us the Amazing Apple Cake. Unfortunately, by the time I got to actually making the cake, the black spot on my apple had turned into a...
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How To: Make Personalised Wrapping Paper
It’s Father’s Day this weekend, and we’ve been doing little hand made presents to give to the Daddy in our lives. We made a really cute hand print picture frame, and have a dad-friendly shoulder bag...
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Andrea’s Summer Camp At Home : Week 3 – Ocean Theme
Colours: Blue and yellow, purple (explore colour mixing) Shapes: Circle, oval, star Sensory: Whipped foam and sea animals (use a squirt of foam, a drop of food colouring and about 1/2 cup water in the...
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How To Make The Most Of A Very Wet Summer
I’ve often said that I’m not very ‘crafty’ and don’t really enjoy too much ‘messy’ play, but any parent to a toddler knows that that just comes with the territory – either that, or your child’s not...
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Pick Your Own And Eat It
Welcome to the August 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Farmer’s Markets This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama....
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How To: Make A Photo Garden
Did you know that on the other side of the world, yesterday was spring day? If the thought of the end of summer and the approach of winter is a bit upsetting, why not create a brand new garden of your...
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The Low Down On Busy Bags
I hate jumping on a bandwagon, and if you’re on Pinterest you’d be forgiven for thinking the whole world does Busy Bags, or Toddler Activity Bags. In a chat on Facebook today, however, it turns out...
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Free And Almost Free Resources For Outdoor Activities In The UK
I know in this weather I’d much rather be snuggled up under a sofa reading a book than stomping around cold and damp countryside with a baby and toddler in tow – or more realistically, chasing down a...
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Getting Into Gardening
For the last two years, I have had the worst luck with my garden. What pregnancy didn’t take out of me, sickness and a newborn did, and then, to top it off it rained so much last year that even my...
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Gardening – It’s Like Watching Water Boil, But More Exciting
I’m so glad I decided to plant the sunflower seeds the same day as the tomato plants, because for days and days nothing happened. We opened the growing thingy each day to find nothing, except one...
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Lollipop Stick Bird Feeder
As Ameli grows slowly older I’m starting to find her crafting abilities less frustrating and as a result find that I can do more ‘fun’ projects with her as her attention span develops too. We’ve been...
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Rainbow Rice For Sensory Boxes
We had a pretty rough day around these parts, but if you look at the photos, you wouldn’t know it. Ah, if my real life looked like my photo stream, that would be just great. Oh well. Our jar of...
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Butterfly Learning
Mondays tend to be either field trip or home days for us, and today was a home day. I bought a bunch of activity books some time ago, and today we opened up Insects and Bugs and used the first page:...
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Learning: Reptiles And Writing
I used Grammarly to grammar check this post, because after all this playlearning, I’m too tired to think straight!* From time to time we make giant strides forward in our desire to home school our...
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