"Sometimes you've got to let everything go...purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything...whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." Tina Turner The state of our garage was beginning to get the Hubby down. It's being used as a holding bay. As redundant ...
Food Waste Friday / Meet Our New Addition
It's Friday Guys - My turn once more to host Food Waste Friday! Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and ...
My Creative (& Slightly Cluttered) Kitchen
School's out due to industrial action in the UK, so we've been having our very own home-economics class . It was super easy home-made kids pizza for lunch... Followed by 'decorate a cupcake' dessert... (not all for us, half went home with friends...) I'm sure you can guess, the kitchen is in a bit of a mess. ...
No Waste Tastes Great – #INeedToGetOutMore
It's Friday Guys - Time for No Waste Tastes Great Simply Being Mum's Friday Fridge I've had my eye on the prize this week. The prize being zero-waste. It was near, but not quite a hit. ...
Sharing The Love – A Colgate Giveaway
This month, as part of Colgate Oral Health Month, I was kindly invited to a blogger event focusing on oral hygiene. It was scheduled for the same day as the Kids went back to school. We had back2school cake to eat, what can I say? I didn't go. ...
The Definition Of Clutter
Last week was a strange week. A couple of things happened, out of the blue. On Thursday I met a stranger, who among other things, told me how he never buys anything he doesn't use. He'd recently purchased antique crystal wine glasses at auction - not as an investment, but to enjoy. It was a pleasure to talk to this person. It's a conversation that will ...
Food Waste Friday / The World’s Gone Baking Mad
It's Friday Guys - My turn once more to host Food Waste Friday! Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and ...
No Waste Tastes Great / Holey Cake Batman!
It's Friday Guys - time for No Waste Tastes Great. Every Friday morning I follow my simple No Waste Tastes Great routine Not this morning. To cut a long-story short I ended up visiting A&E (ER) yesterday. It was all something about nothing. I'm fine. But it taught me a lesson. It also inspired a blog post which I'll share soon. My unplanned hospital ...
Simple Slow Cooked Spicy Tomato Soup Recipe
I've recently been given some homegrown tomatoes. For which I am exceedingly grateful. There were too many to eat with salad, they'd potentially go to waste, so the choice was chutney or soup. As I've been promised some more soon I went with soup. It's a little too early for Christmas chutney and I want to post an updated version here as part of my Simple ...
Food Waste Friday / So, Did I Have Zero Waste?
It's Friday Guys - My turn once more to host Food Waste Friday! Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and ...