My Grandad died fighting for his country during World War 2. Mr Frugal's Dad was in the army and fought in the Falklands as well as getting shot by terrorists during active service elsewhere. Both children have friends whose parents are serving Afghanistan. We have friends whose children, partners, brothers and cousins are out in Afghanistan fighting for their country. Everyone is affected by war one way or another and regardless of whether we agree with the reasons that we entered into any particular conflict, one thing we should all agree on is that we should be extremely proud of all … [Read more...]
Family friendly frugal meals – Chilli style….
This week is a bit of a funny week as we had friends round on Sunday night for fireworks, then we were away in London until last night. We have a birthday party to go to on Friday and we're out on Saturday as well!I have no idea what I'm doing from one day to the next and even though I wrote this post on Sunday afternoon, I forgot to publish it which is why I'm sharing my meal plan with you half way through the week!Here you go....Sunday - Fireworks party night so we're having chilli and cupcakes - great combination!Monday - We're away but the kids will be at home (not alone) … [Read more...]
Look what we’ve been up to so far this week….
We've had a busy week this week! We had our bonfire night on Sunday night and had some lovely friends round for hot dogs, cakes and hot chocolates with marshmallows and squirty cream....The next morning we set off to London to join Marmite as their guests in the Golden Circle (check us out) on Oxford Street for the big Christmas light switch on. They asked us a few weeks ago so we decided to go and celebrate our anniversary a week early by leaving the kids at home and having a grown up night away in London. We got a good deal on our train fares and our hotel room was a complete bargain … [Read more...]
Cupcake Sunday – Mini double chocolate chip cupcakes with popping candy….
This year, for the first year ever, we're having a few fireworks at home rather than going to a public firework display and I'm actually quite excited. A few friends are coming round tonight with their kids and I'm hoping the rain stays away so we can have a good night.Seeing as there will be 12 of us tonight, I'm making mini double chocolate chip cupcakes rather than full size ones so that I can do lots of different toppings and everyone can try a few and still have space left for the chilli I have cooking away in the slow cooker right now.The recipe for the cakes themselves is … [Read more...]
Saturday is Caption Day – the one with the big decision….
I love this photo.I took it at Brimham Rocks over the Summer when we were camping near there and it shows Master Frugal trying to decide whether he can jump the gap or whether he'd rather climb back down the way he came and go around!What do you think he ended up deciding to do?Leave me a comment with your best caption for this photo and then off you pop to join in with the rest of the Saturday is Caption Day posts over at Mammsaurus’ blog. … [Read more...]
Home spa day….
Last night Miss Frugal and I had our own mini homemade spa evening while the men of the house were doing man things together (playing on the Xbox and painting little figure things).We started with a nice hot bubble bath where we washed each other's hair and made hairstyles with the bubbles. Then we painted each other's nails and used some chocolate face mask that we won in a tombola last week. And finally, we relaxed on the bed with cucumbers over our eyes.It was such a lovely night although I'm not going to lie - she spent half the night telling us we needed a hot tub and … [Read more...]
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