It’s freezing outside. Whilst your mind is telling you that there is an a battalion of vegetables on the turn, your heart is telling you……well…..you just can’t deal with it right now. You can almost hear the carrots screaming at you from the fridge as you reach for the take…
I have a degree in pancakes at this stage in my life. There are possibilities are endless. Batter, toppings, degree of crispness or soft and spongy. The world, my friends, is our oyster! But where did it all come from???? Shrove Tuesday always falls 47 days before Easter Sunday & was…
It’s a little embarrassing calling this a recipe. It’s almost too simple to merit the title. However because of the week that’s in it I felt it was worth popping up here. It’s not often you get Valentines Day and Pancake Tuesday side by side…….if that’s not enough to merit…
It’s OFFICIAL!!!!!! Spring has sprung!! Mother Nature kept a good one for February 1st 2018, that’s for sure. The mornings are certainly getting brighter and the evenings are giving us a glimpse of change. Yes we are witnessing the STRETCH! With the stretch comes more time in the great outdoors,…
High Five all round everyone – we did it!! We survived January. Possibly the dreariest, least exciting time of the year….or is it? Maybe it’s just a frame of mind and January has been getting a bad rap all these years needlessly. Maybe January should be celebrated for what it…
Normally if I need to get out for a loaf of bread or a few carton’s of milk, it can be akin to planning a round the world trip for 2….well in my head anyway. You spend as long getting ready to go as you do actually on the mission.…
I am a well travelled Irish bird. In former lives, I set down roots in Loughborough, Bangkok, Australia (well, kinda’…reality TV in a former life for 3 months…..I’ll maybe explain another time) & even as far flung as North Cork! I like to travel. However, I prefer if my food…
Porridge – the 7th member of my family. However some members of the family are somewhat falling out of love with it in phases. What to do??!!! It’s somewhere between dawn & “Holy Crap where are the gum-shields we’re late” on a wintery Saturday morning. She swans into the kitchen,…
The silly season is upon us. Time for reflection, peace, joy, love and a whole lotta’ dashing around like a headless chicken. If I have to go back & battle the 1 hour que in and out of the local retail park to buy yet another pack of AA batteries…
It’s that time of year when I hand my bank card over to a cashier I do so with a guilty look on my face. You know the one where you look like you are contemplating stealing something – although you would never dream of actually doing such a thing!! You…
First let me set the scene. When: 1:23pm or 2:23pm or 5:23pm… any pick up really! Where: Outside the school gates…..further away than you wanted to be as you got here late and missed the prime parking positions. Ok, ok so this means technically you are not outside the school…
The bank holiday blues have surely set in by now? Long weekends do that to you. A double-edged sword if truth be told. You spend 6 weeks from the end of summer looking forward to it and by the end of day 2 the kids are BEGGING you to spend…
Dear World, I would like to present my Peanut Butter Hummus in a Hurry for the Hangry. Why I hear you cry? I suffer greatly from Hanger. That is why. And every problem needs a solution. Hanger? You know? When you are so hungry that your lack of food causes…
4pm and I are simply not friends. We haven’t been for nigh on 8 and a half years. There was no major falling out, no Dallas style storming out of the room and slamming of doors in our wake. Our lives just changed trajectory and we lost the spark. You…
Hands up who is tired? I’m so exhausted that I forgot to post this last week. Just a foreword for those of you about to become 1st time parents…… LOOK AWAY NOW! Over the past few years I have discovered that parenting seems to be like a secret club. Not…
These kids are quite literally eating me out of house and home. I can’t keep up. The plague of the locusts tearaways. And who actually made fruit so EXPENSIVE??!! I am the mother who picks up stray blueberries from the floor and rinses them under the tap. I’ve even been know…
Hands up anyone whose head has been exploding these past few weeks. This whole end of summer malarky is tough work……and getting the kids back to school just is not seam-less. It’s become quite the balancing act – figuring out who needs to be when and where and for how…
And just like that – here we are again – back on the ferris wheel and summer is a mere memory. I feel like I closed my eyes to soak up the warm summer rays several weeks back and have just re-woken in a pile of uniforms, pencil cases, school…
Unattended children will be given an espresso shot and a puppy. Yes we’ve all had a little giggle on seeing this one at various café’s around the country. Can you imagine the horror? Threats such as this are not to be taken lightly and are sure to bring any self-respecting…
‘In club Tropicana drinks are freeeeeeee. Fun and sunshine there’s enough for everyone…..” Is it just me? Am I the only one who cannot hear the word tropical with bursting introvertedly into the opening lyrics of this Wham favourite – sometimes I even open my mouth unwittingly and emit the…
