Birthday lunch.  Ruth wanted quite a low key birthday – we had the food she wanted to eat and watched New Tricks! But on Wednesday we had her party – ice cream and Just Dance. We also had cake – well cup cakes, Ruth was busy making them and practising with her new icing petal [Continue]

My Yorkshire pudding tins have disappeared. I took one of them to church full cupcakes in and it has not been seen since.  The other one more mysteriously was last used for cupcakes at home – and it too has disappeared. So rather that buy new ones I thought I would give Yorkshire puds a go in the silicon trays I [Continue]

When I was little I would ask my dad “what do you want for your birthday?” And every time without fail he would answer “Peace and Quiet.”  I would then ask “what do you reeeeeally want for your birthday?” and he would again answer “I really want peace and quiet.” Until I had children I [Continue]

We’ve just returned from out 5th Camping trip this year!  This is possibly a little excessive and Ruth will be doing a further 2 camps with expedition club.  I don’t even like camping!  We started with church camp, then Corfe, then Parkhurst then Greenbelt and finally Appuldurcombe. The campsite at Appuldurcombe has a number [Continue]

For Bex’s 6th birthday she got an ice cream maker – a kids one. It has been sitting on top of my wardrobe until last week. We finally got it out last week, collected all the ingredients and did indeed make lovely ice cream, if only a very tiny amount. The thing is, Bex is [Continue]

This is Ruth, me and my friend Harriet playing the aftereight game -> Above; me very unsuccessfully blowing out my candles We had geat fun, played lots of messy games and ate yummy dinner. A very good b-day party!! [Continue]