• Our three year old’s racing car party

    My youngest boy is very keen on birthday parties. He loves the dancing, the games, and he especially loves the cake. Last year we had a great hungry caterpillar party, which we did on a budget, and with a zero plastic into landfill policy.  I wanted to do something along the same lines this year. …

  • Keeping chickens

    We have been keeping chickens for a couple of years now after Mike bought me a  lovely purple eglu, with two lovely laying ladies; Barbara & Margot They have brought us lots of laughs, plenty of eggs, and have been so very easy to look after. In the winter months, they have free range of …

  • Blowing the cobwebs away – for free.

    It’s been weeks since my last blog post. Everything went a bit January – you know what I mean – snow days, awful viruses, over-ambitious resolutions to sort the house out, a knitting project that REALLY needed finishing before a friend’s baby arrived etc. Amongst all that I just haven’t felt like writing much. The …

  • A children’s birthday party for under £40

    Our eldest son, who was due to have a January birthday,  obviously thought that a January birthday would be rather dull and pulled the plug three weeks before his due date.  Our January baby turned into a December baby and arrived right in the middle of the Christmas party season – the midwives’ Christmas party …

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