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On a Princess Cake for a Princess

Another year has passed and the girl has just had another birthday. Where exactly does the time go? I know people say that all the time but I’m really feeling it at the moment. Seriously. I distinctly remember writing this post about her pink & sparkly birthday cake, and here I am again with another birthday [...]

On an Easter Treat from Hotel Chocolat

Take 2 children and 1 adult, all chocolate lovers. Suggest an Easter egg colouring session, followed by a bit of photography. Oh yes, and add the promise of some nice chocolates to sample once the eggs are coloured and some photos are taken. What do you get?

What you get is good intentions quickly descending [...]

On a Birthday Cake for a Leopard

Before I became a parent I really had only a vague idea of what parenthood entailed. I had visions of early mornings, permanent bags under one’s eyes, talking gibberish, singing songs on long car journeys, brightly coloured birthday cakes, wiping snotty noses, laughter and tantrums in equal measure, angelic looks on small faces as they slept, [...]

On a Healthy Start to 2011

Newton’s third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. No, I have not made a New Year’s resolution to become a physicist. I tried physics in high school and it was NOT one of my stronger subjects. Definitely not. But stretching things just a bit, I think this third [...]

On Two Kinds of Christmas Cookies

We all make mistakes in the kitchen, or at least I like to think we do. I certainly do. I’m not talking about deliberately making a change to a recipe or doing some random experimenting. I’m talking about misreading an amount or an ingredient in a recipe, or over/undercooking something, or trying to do too [...]

On a Pink Sparkly Birthday Cake

My girl has just turned 4. She will now point out to you that’s she’s not 3 3/4 any more, but 4, and that she’s a big girl now. She has eschewed her booster chair at the dining room table and announced that she will use the same kind of chair as everyone else. So [...]

On Holiday!

We’re off camping today. Not a little weekend trip – no, not at all. Two weekends and a week in between. 9 whole days. I can’t wait. I’m looking forward to no schedules, stargazing, horses traipsing through the campsite, and of course roasting marshmallows. And the only technology we’ll have access to are our phones (which aren’t [...]

On Baking for the School Fete

Have you ever gotten to the point where you don’t think you have the capacity either physically or mentally to take on one more thing? I was pretty much at that point a few weeks ago.  Work, kids, life… ack! But but but but… we now have about a month to slow down and just [...]

On the Treasure Chest Birthday Cake

The boy turned 8 on the weekend. Eight. Not 7 any more, and 6 seems like it was decades ago. He’s definitely no longer a baby, or a toddler, or a little boy even. Nope, he’s 8, which is really just thisclose to 10. Scary. I always have mummy moments around my kids’ birthdays – [...]

On Making a Strawberry & Almond Cake

The girl (my daughter) is 3 ½. Not 3, but 3 ½. These distinctions are important when you’re that age and she will correct you if you get it wrong. She is a typical 3 ½ year old girl, or so I’m told – having not had a girl child before her I’m unsure as [...]