The Last Two Months in Brief…

… no sooner was I back then I was gone again.  The last two months have been very busy, very strange and very stressful and I just haven’t managed to get myself together enough to write.  Facebook may well be playing a part in my lack of blogging, I seem to be addicted
A brief timeline:
Pre-Christmas:  [...]

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The Things They Say… #6

My Mum has a Christmas tradition that I am more than happy to carry on into the next generation (edit: and the one after that I suppose!) – trifle for breakfast on Boxing Day.
I have cheated a bit this year and used Bird’s Trifle packet mix – but yum nevertheless.
Little’un has helped with the stirring [...]

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Happy Christmas to All :o)

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Yes, I know it’s not Christmas for aaaaaaages

but I am starting to feel happy about the upcoming festive season so I am going to inflict the WordPress Christmas Theme on you all.  So there.
I find winter really depressing at times, for instance today it is not yet quite light 10.45am which doesn’t bode well for the rest of the day.  It is raining [...]

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Sprouts

Yesterday we ate sprouts, and a shedload of other stuff besides, as one does at this time of year.  Sprouts get a bad press in my humble opinion.  Lightly steamed so they are still ever so slightly al dente makes them a delicious accompaniment to any meal.  The oh-so-British tradition of putting them on to boil [...]

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Track Santa with NORAD

Clicky here
At the time of writing, he has been seen in New Zealand, Australia and Japan
(thanks to Pewari for the link)

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Father Christmas AND Santa Claus

According to Little’un, we are getting visits tonight from two fairytale entities.
Better leave out two mince pies then.

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Things not to do with a two year old #3

…expect them to be the angel in the nursery nativity play without tears.
Poor Little’un, as soon as she clapped eyes on The Yorkshireman and I in the audience, all rehearsals were forgotten and she just wanted a cuddle from her Mummy and Daddy. She got so distraught she had to be taken out of the [...]

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Things not to do with a two year old #2

Expect them to understand that they can only have one chocolate out of the advent calendar each day.
We have a lovely fabric advent calendar with pockets for each of the days.  There is a Santa-on-a-Stick that you can move from pocket to pocket each day and a big pocket for Christmas Day that you can leave [...]

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Sparkly!

We put the Christmas tree up last night, and chucked a bit of tinsel around the front room. It looks nice, despite the interior design skills of the two-year-old who was in charge. We had to rearrange the baubles on the tree though – I had forgotten that little children tend to hang them all [...]

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