Chocolate Chip Cookies for Creatures of Habit

All hail the chocolate chip cookie! We worship at the altar of Choc chip anything over here. These little drops of happiness just bleed delight into the bleakest of bakes any day of the week. So how do we police this unrequited love of the cocoa bean? Well besides the…

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Chocolate & Chestnut Pots for the prepared

I would happily lay out the clothes for the whole week in the kids rooms if I thought they had any chance of actually staying there and making onto their bodies (in any fashion at all) during the week, such is my anxiety  with regards to organisation. It’s a combination…

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Curry for Cool Kids (of all ages)

Friday night. The life is drained from you. Unhooking your bra strap is just about all you can manage – and you only do so in order to exhale as long and as hard as you can muster up the strength to do. Somewhere in between forcing the washing machine…

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Saying Goodbye to a dear old Friend.

It’s not you it’s me – we’ve all heard that aul’ chestnut bandied about to or by someone in our circle at some point in our lives. Usually spoken without due diligence to someone who really would rather be anywhere but listening to it at that moment. It’s an easy…

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Camping Guide for those who are starting out

I spent the best part of my summers in the 80’s in a trailer tent en France. How lucky am I? Once August rolled around following a month improving my mother tongue in Irish college & learning other life necessities such as where babies come from and how to kiss…

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