Despite two outings, we’ve had a quetish week. Well, uneventful, but not exactly peaceful…
- 365 Project
- Abel & Cole
- activism
- apple
- Awards
- baby
- baby related products
- Bach Rescue Remedy
- bad days
- baking
- bathroom
- Beach huts
- birth
- birthday
- Blogging
- Bonding
- Breastfeeding
- Bronchitis
- Cake
- Cards
- Celebrations
- Challenges
- Changes
- childbirth
- childhood
- children
- Chistmas
- chocolate
- chocolate cake
- christening
- Christmas
- clothes
- cooking
- Crackers
- crafting
- creativity
- crying baby
- cry it out
- Day Out
- decoration
- detox
- development
- difficult
- disaster
- documents
- domestics
- Dreaming of her future
- East Dulwich
- eczema
- empowering
- event
- Exercise
- family
- father
- Flowers
- Food
- Food Recipes
- Friends
- frustration
- Gifts
- goals
- godparents
- growing
- growth spurt
- Haiti
- hand made gifts
- healing
- helping
- herbal medicine
- herbs
- Holidays
- homebirth
- hospital
- hot chocolate
- Hyperemesis Gravidarum
- i am woman
- jewellery
- kindness
- learning
- letter to my daughter
- life in general
- London
- Looking back
- loss
- love
- march
- memories
- midwife
- Mommytography
- money saving
- Motherhood
- nappy bag
- Natural Birth
- nature
- Night Out
- officials
- organic
- Out and About
- outing
- park
- photographs
- Photography
- pregnancy
- project
- Quality time
- recycling
- Red Tape
- relaxation
- Resolutions
- review
- science museum
- shopping
- Sickness
- sleepless nights
- smile
- snow
- special offer
- stay at home
- Teething
- time
- Tonsilitis
- toothache
- Top 10
- toys
- valentines
- Vitamin C
- voice
- walk
- waterbirth
- Yoga
Just Have to Share – Gran’s Flop Proof Chocolate Cake
I had a proper old fashioned kitchen tea when I got married, with broom dancing and games and so on. All the older ladies gave me their ‘life saving’ recipes to take forward with my own family. I put them in a folder and never looked at them again for years, until recently.
I came across the folder and found this recipe. Since then, I have made it in to cupcakes, individual sized mini cakes, a single layer cake, a double layer cake with jam and icing in the middle and a marbled cake. I am notoriously bad for flopping cakes, and this one, I never have.
Just Have to Share – Gran’s Flop Proof Chocolate Cake – continue reading…
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365-23 Apple Pie
I wrote a post on these Apple Pies recently. They are great, and I just love knowing there’s a stack in the freezer for whenever I need some warm comfort food to get me through this long winter!
Can you say growth spurt?
I am afflicted by a London-based curse. Well, for me it is London based. I develop tonsilitis and bronchitis every year. The first time it happened was our first year in London, December 2004, just in time for our wedding. I kind of croaked my ‘I do’s’ through a drug induced, fevered hue. Can you say growth spurt? – continue reading…


