Now, more than ever, it's super important that we all take time to relax with our families so I thought I'd share with you 100 ways to spend time with your family to give you some ideas.At the moment, I'm really conscious that lots of you have younger children and some of you will be really struggling for ideas on how to spend time together as a family. I've just spent an hour or so going through my old blog posts to write this bumper list of ideas for you so I really hope it helps you.It's all different for me these days as my two are older now so we have different ways of … [Read more...]

Today's school dinner cake (which you might have called Sprinkle Cake at your school) is guaranteed to take you back to your school days - especially if you pour over some lumpy custard when you serve it up. 😂I used to love School Dinners when I was at school and I'm 99% certain that we just used to call this pink cake but I can't find anyone else who called it that so I'm going with the two more common names that I found for it when I was searching for it - school dinner cake and sprinkle cake. Reflecting on school days also reminded me of how assignment help services can make … [Read more...]

It's been a long time since my two were little enough to want to do puzzles and jigsaws with me but when I saw these Halloween puzzles I knew they'd be perfect for some of you who have little ones.I've got three super cute Halloween puzzles for you today that I think will be suitable for around ages 3-5 if my memory of little children's hands and minds serves me rightly.   The best way to make these puzzles is to print them out onto normal paper and then using a glue stick, stick the printout onto some card (a cereal box is ideal) and then cut out the pieces where the lines … [Read more...]

You guys all probably know by now how much I love the Festival of Thrift and that I've been just about every year since it started. Well, I've just got back from this year's and thought I'd share some of the great stuff that was going on with you...The Festival of Thrift is all about sustainability and promotes great ways to reuse, recycle and reduce consumption with some amazing craft and food stalls mixed in with all kinds of workshops and fun that fit in with the sustainability theme. It's spread out over a very small local village taking over some fields, barns, a beautiful church, … [Read more...]

Does anyone else buy random things after seeing them advertised on Social Media?I realised a little while ago that I'm like an advertisers dream right now as I've bought things recently that I may not have even known existed if it hadn't been for Facebook and its advertising algorithms that somehow know what I want before I even know myself.  Then Instagram joined the party and started targeting me with some pretty accurate ad targeting so I changed the name of this series to Social Media made me buy it.(To be clear: none of these items are sponsored or gifted, they're all … [Read more...]

Did you catch last week's five frugal things post? I mentioned that I'd treated myself to a Hello Fresh meal prep box after seeing an offer where the first box was 50% off and the next three were 35% off.  I'm so easily influenced but I thought I'd track the meals we got in our box and share them with you.To be clear, I bought my Hello Fresh box myself. 😇I've used Hello Fresh before during lockdown (again, I bought the boxes myself and wasn't working with them) and shared what I thought of them in general (Hello Fresh, overhyped and overpriced?) so I won't go into all the … [Read more...]