We’re on a roll with our fudge making in the last week. After making Chocolate crunchie honeycomb fudge we set about trying our hand at a Terry’s chocolate orange slow cooker fudge recipe. It’s a much smoother fudge than the crumblier, rugged Crunchie fudge. The orange oil is a perfect addition to the chocolate fudge recipe and it got the thumbs up from everyone! I…

With Father’s Day coming up I thought it time to revisit a slow cooker fudge recipe. Dougie absolutely loves fudge, so we wanted to make some ready for Father’s Day. I have struggled to get condensed milk during lockdown but we managed to find some in our local supermarket, so I set about making some new fudge recipes. The result was this amazing crumbly fudgey…

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran. It’s been a bit of a nondescript week. It’s sometimes hard to know what to write as we’re just doing the same things. I’m relieved that I have felt more positive the last week. It might just be the first week of lockdown where I have managed to feel…

Homeschool seems firmly on the agenda for the next few months. So, I have created a few more quick and easy kids lunches for Summer. I can make these easily while juggling their education, the house work and fitting in my blog work. A question I often hear among parents is what can I give my child for lunch? I have asked that question myself…

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”. Kahlil Gibran. This week whizzed by until the weekend came and it felt like the weekend was about 5 days long! Our highlight this weekend was a mid-week trip to the Seals on the Yorkshire coast. As the weather was cooler we were right in thinking it would be a really…

We have been joining in with 30 days wild for a number of years now.  If you’re not familiar with this then it’s a month-long nature challenge in June with inspiration, ideas and help from Wildlife Trust.  I thought I would go over some of our simple 30 days wild ideas we have previously tried out and will be doing more of the same this…