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26th October

Spontaneous Mum catch-up pub trip once small people were in bed. How rock and roll… 2 drinks and we moved onto cups of tea!<div class="separator" style="c...

25th October

Mini-M the detective is watching your every move…<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div></div>

24th October

I had an afternoon of annual leave booked to cover Mr E’s jury duty. He was done early, so we went for some kite flying at Longniddry Bents instead.<div c...

23rd October

Mr E’s designer labels for his Christmas beer. There was much snipping during the course of the evening.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-al...

Local (& Late!) Random Recipes #33

For this month’s Random Recipes challenge, our host, Dom at Belleau Kitchen, exhorted us to use a local ingredient in our random culinary creations. He also ...

Halloween Mummy Pie

Not so much a recipe, but a set of instructions to make a bandaged-mummy-style pie. If Halloween on the horizon isn’t a good excuse for such pastry shenaniga...

Spread Your Wings…

A little while ago we were very kindly given a big bag of felt by a relative, and a soon as I saw the colours - greens, greys, browns and blues, I thought pe...

Activity Bags: Gumdrop Construction

Last week (and a little bit) I posted about some Activity Bags I’d made up during a day off to help Mr E entertain Mini-M, and assuage a little bit of my par...

22nd October

Tuesday nights at 9pm are now virtual film club evenings. Tonight, it was the Joss Whedon version of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ - not that you can tell from th...

21st October

Went to ASDA to buy emergency nappies. Space was tight. Whilst getting out of car VERY carefully and gently, touched door of next car with mine. Looked - no ...