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Me right now

My lovely friend Taralara over at Sticky Fingers runs The Photo Gallery.  It’s a fab idea – there’s a theme each week, and loads of people join in, taking pictures and sharing them with each other.  I dip in and out, but this one really caught my eye: me.  Right now. ‘We’re terrible for ‘posing’ for photographs aren’t we?’, says Tara. ‘Making sure...

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English Mum’s ‘baked with love’ Bakeoff – who says romance is dead?

So it’s bakeoff time again!  I wanted to do something around Valentine’s day, because you guys always bake the most amazing things, BUT I don’t want to limit you all to just heart-shaped things, oh no.  So our theme for this bakeoff is ‘baked with love‘. If you’re not loved up, but just want to bake yourself a big mahoosive cake to eat in bed while watching a film, that’s...

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Micky bickies (OFFICE WARNING: naughty biscuit photo alert)

Waaay before we were good buddies, on our first trip to Disneyworld Florida, my fellow bloggers, the Disney 7 (well, the other 6), were most perplexed by the fact that any time anyone from Disney mentioned the ‘hidden Mickeys’ placed all around the resorts and parks, I dissolved into snorty cackling.  It didn’t matter  how much I tried.  One mention of a mickey and that was it – my...

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A healthier blueberry and lemon loaf

So the weekend was somewhat traumatic.  I won’t fill you in on all the events, but needless to say being trapped in a packed train carriage all the way from Shepherds Bush while the three teenagers I was escorting serenaded their fellow commuters with loud renditions of My Horse is Amazing (seriously – don’t bother watching it, it’s that bad) and then being politely told that we were,...

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You know you love me, right?

As the parent of teenagers, there are certain opening sentences that strike fear into the bottom of my bottom. One of these, used by both de brevren on a regular basis is ‘Mum… you know you love me, right?’ to which I have to dutifully reply ‘yeeeees’? and wait, cringing slightly, for the bombshell that follows. The answer can be a miriad of different horrors… a recent selection...

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The Gatwick Passenger Panel meeting: buggies, castles… and snazzy toilets

So I was back at Gatwick today for the next Passenger Panel Meeting. As you probably remember, I’m a member of the panel and I’m there to represent families. We’re a funny bunch, us families.  The trouble is, we need so many different things to make us happy… we’d like our journey through the airport to ‘flow’ (this is a word that crops up a lot), and we’d really...

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George’s perfect chocolate brownies

Moving swiftly on from healthy eating, then, we must remember there are those of us at English Towers (the gangly, floppy haired ones and the skatery types) that still want a little something after school or dinner and demand treats, preferably piled up in an ungainly, chocolatey tower when doing A level revision. This, and I don’t say this lightly, is my best chocolate brownie recipe ever.  I make it...

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Healthier baking – a bit of sciencey stuff, and a great recipe for banana, oat and honey muffins

Okay so not exactly science… just baking jiggery pokery really. First, can I say that I’m not a fan of processed low-fat ANYTHING.  If I’m going to spread butter on my bread it’s going to be butter (Yeo Valley out of preference), and nothing remotely low-fatty or weirdly whipped with water. Still, it’s the New Year and while I love my cakey buns, I’m determined to shed...

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In which the Ninja Cat of Death causes ABH and falls off a window ledge

Cats. Gorgeous, fluffy, plumptious, cuddly balls of loveliness. Or in our case, vile, evil, furry balls of complete hatred (bar 2.2 minutes of purriness around dinner time). When we got Ninja as a kitten, she was already horrible.  I think the toddlers at the place where we bought her had been allowed free rein and the poor thing had virtually been hugged to death.  So in Ninja’s view, humans = forced...

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Where should I go on holiday? Year round climates.

I think I’m quite annoying.  Alright, I KNOW I’m quite annoying.  I’m one of those ‘yay, it’s January! Let’s make plans!’ type people.  And while the rest of the family (and possibly the world) are mired in depression about putting on weight or going back to work, I’ve got a fresh notebook, a new pen and am busy planning where I want to go on holiday this year...

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