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 Food Waste Friday was born. I started participating in October ...
Christmas pudding
Open House / Getting Christmassy
**Please note I have decided to edit today's open house blog post. I didn't think carefully enough about it - it's my error. Thank you for the 2 previous comments (it's appreciated you popped by! thank you! I read them and they contained great advice - if you'd like to comment again please do) but I've started from scratch. Thank you for ...
Did You Stir-Up Sunday? We Didn’t.
I do love traditions. Apparently (according to Wikipedia) Stir-up Sunday is one of the essential British traditions. Introduced to the Britain by Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. We didn't participate this year. Do you recall I'm taking Christmas off? That means no home-made Christmas puddings. No gathering together to stir the pudding in ...
Simple Christmas Traditions / Operation Christmas Child, Puds and Letters to Santa
Christmas is all about time with the family. We like to keep it simple. One way I've chosen to do this is by developing simple traditions. Kids love knowing what to expect, it adds to the experience and excitement for them. We are currently building up to the big day as the weekend after Remembrance Sunday now signifies the start of these traditions. Each ...