A few weeks ago I received a copy of “All in the Cooking”, which has recently been reprinted by O’Brien Press and The Educational Company, for review. I loved the original, or as it happens the metric edition, when growing up. It was very well thumbed in our kitchen…
A small boy has been on my mind all day, invading my thoughts, stopping me from doing anything else. I can’t shake his image out of my mind. I’m close to tears thinking about him. This boy isn’t one of my own small boys, he’s from a different part of the…
As I type there is a small boy dressed in stripy pyjamas bouncing around his bed upstairs. Every now and then he has an urgent request for parental intervention, or he drops something very loudly so that his daddy or I make the journey up the stairs to investigate. As…
The winner of the yubo personalised lunchbox from Zazzle as chosen by Rafflecopter is Eimear Hutchinson. Congratulations Eimear, I’ll be in touch to arrange your prize.
I admit it the kids of this household weren’t that easily converted to Netflix in the beginning. The remote for the Apple TV combined with the actual TV was too complicated, their favourite pirate wasn’t on, it just wasn’t right. Then, they started to realise that there were some…
With Back to School almost upon us Zazzle UK let us personalise a yubo lunchbox on their site to review Since Cathal is starting school I thought it would be nice for him to try, but I let the personalisation be a surprise as I didn’t want to rub his…
It’s back to school time, it has been since the week before the school holidays. The time of year where the food section of every magazine and newspaper is filled with lunchbox ideas. “Healthy back to school snacks” “variety in the lunchbox”, “kids will love these healthy somethings”. Lads, it’s…
It’s no secret that I like to cook and that I adore my food, so people often turn to me for ideas- I get asked “what will I make for _____?”. Despite producing food every day to feed ourselves and our families, everyone seems to have a blank when it…
We’re back from our holidays, two funfilled weeks in the west of Ireland. We had a lovely family time and I’ve lots to share about it on the blog over the next week. (Hooray, writing material). As soon as we got back yesterday evening the three kids went into our…
We were in a bike shop recently, getting a puncture repaired on the buggy. My three and a half year old son, a proud bike owner since Christmas was eyeing up the kids’ bikes display. On one end there were blue and green and red bikes, with spiders and monsters…
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