Posted in Family Life on Aug 30th, 2010
My Father in Law is about to celebrate a momentous birthday. We really struggle with gifts, knowing that often what we are able to give falls far short of what we want to give. We thought long and hard about giving him a birthday treat which would be truly exciting before hitting on a trip [...]
Posted in Family Life on Aug 21st, 2010
Each evening before bed we peer around our children’s door to make sure they are ok, as I’m sure you do too. Sometimes they need their covers settling over them or turning around from some contorted sleeping position. Last night when we checked, Milla was gone. Mr Kat came out of their room and said [...]
Posted in Family Life, Food on Jul 2nd, 2010
Our enthusiasm for the garden is still strong since we began sorting it out in the Spring. We did go for a ready to plant garden from Rocket Gardens (although they were out of rocket so will have to plant my own!). They sent a sample garden to give to a friend, ours was very [...]
Posted in Family Life, Making on Jun 20th, 2010
Recently Milla has started to search out ribbons from my sewing box. She has developed a liking for having a bow tied on her head. Today she picked out the ribbon Saints & Pinners use to wrap their yummy fabric in. It went very well with the dress I made for her birthday and I [...]
Posted in Family Life, Food, Making on Jun 11th, 2010
This was the very specific description of the cake Milla wanted her birthday candles on. I figured that if she was going to have a chocolate cake it may as well be big and gooey so I made a fudge cake using the recipe from Leiths Baking Bible. Despite accidentally leaving out half of the [...]
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