I am back after a couple of weeks away! Well, actually only one week but last week I just never got around to meal planning, and I actually struggled with all of our meals and we did have a takeaway one night… Which shows that meal planning really does work (mostly)! Meal plan w/c 15th September: Monday – Vegetable stir fry with sweet chilli sauce Tuesday – Spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread Wednesday – Reggae reggae chicken with rice & peas Thursday – Jacket potatoes Friday – Smoked mackerel with new potatoes Saturday – Gammon with homemade chunky chips Sunday …
Recipe – Chunky chocolate kugelhopf (#GreatBloggersBakeOff2014)
First of all, I just want to say thank you to Jenny for awarding me Star Baker for my tart last week! You can see my badge at the bottom of the page! So this week was European bakes. It took me a day or two to make a decision on what I was going to make, then I finally decided on kugelhopf after looking through my recipe books. I was crossing my fingers all the way through that it was going to rise properly, and it was a complete success! The original had fruit in but I thought I …
Our family holiday to Norfolk
You may or may not have noticed that we recently went on our annual holiday. May not have noticed because I had a post scheduled for every day that week so it was business as usual; or may have noticed when I posted my Project 365 and mentioned that we had been on holiday. Our usual breaks tend to consist of a cottage, usually in Scotland (and then usually the Highlands) but last year we went to Wales. This year though, it was a completely different type of break for me and something that I just knew wasn’t up my street (or …
I’m jumping from a plane at 13,000 feet… #JumpForLove
As many of my regular readers will know, in December 2012 I fell pregnant and then lost our little miracle at 10(+3) weeks gestation after a miscarriage at home. My husband & I were obviously both absolutely devastated and we just about managed to get through Christmas after the heartbreak, knowing what should have been. I never thought it would happen to me, that I would be a statistic of miscarriage, and I felt so withdrawn and depressed. In the new year I discovered Saying Goodbye via Twitter, and Zoe & the team and their posts on there and Facebook helped …
Little man N at 6 months old
On N’s monthly updates I usually tend to say that the time has gone quick – this month for some reason, it seems to have dragged (no idea why). But, I still can’t believe he’s 6 months old. He’s half. a. year. old! He was weighed at 24 weeks and he was 20 lb 6 oz. He is still shooting ahead of what J was at the same age. The health visitor sounded a little concerned about how much he was gaining and how much he was feeding – I’m not worried though; what am I supposed to do, not …