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Apr 3rd, 2012
The 20th anniversary celebrations at Disneyland Paris – our amazing weekend
The Death Wish Dude and I arrived at St Pancras (in sizzling sunshine – don’t you just love London when the sun’s out?) to board the Eurostar. We’d been invited to join the great and good of the world’s media to celebrate Disneyland Paris’ 20th anniversary and to get a sneaky preview at some of the new parades and shows especially created to mark this incredible birthday.
Disneyland...
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Apr 2nd, 2012
The Easter chocolate roundup – I’ve got everything remotely chocolatey for you!
First up, Hotel Chocolat sent us one of their new, and rather heavyweight, Extra Thick Easter Eggs to try. The packaging is really glossy and attractive (it looks a little like a hatbox, decorated with ribbon) and the egg inside doesn’t disappoint either – we tried the Rocky Road to Caramel egg which had two really chunky halves of chocolate: one side was embedded with all sort of goodies like...
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Mar 23rd, 2012
A visit to Leith’s Cookery School and win an Asda Extra Special Easter hamper!
So yesterday saw me tootling off into London in the Spring sunshine. We had such an amazing time at Leith’s last time, cooking the Extra Special Christmas range, I was delighted to be asked back to try out their Easter range. Once again, Leith’s have been hard at work testing (and eating!) loads of new products that they feel are good enough quality to be called ‘extra special’ and...
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Mar 21st, 2012
Travel News and Holiday Reviews
As you may have noticed, I’ve got a brand new look! With four new headers in preparation, you’ll soon see English Mum in a whole new way, split into easy sections so you can find the bits you like best – there’s foodie travel, our home life and parenting waffle, family travel and good old cooking and baking.
Keep checking back to see the new look English Mum!
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Mar 20th, 2012
Moroccan style turkey with Ras el Hanout and lemon and herb couscous
I’ve written before about the fact that as a nation we’re not massive turkey eaters. Christmas, yes, but the rest of the year? I’ll be honest, when I was given this challenge and popped to the shop, I was surprised to find packs of turkey breast there on the shelves – right next to the chicken. Have you ever seen them? Thought not.
So anyhoo, the lovely chaps at Lean on Turkey, supporting...
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Mar 18th, 2012
The New Legoland Hotel, Tim Minchin, dragon cake and horrendous hangovers
WHAT a weekend. There were so many great (and funny) moments I hardly know where to start.
First up, the the lovely chaps at Hertz UK offered to lend me one of their new Family Collection cars to go to the opening of the new Legoland...
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Mar 14th, 2012
The February roundup: this month I have been loving…
Notonthehighstreet.com
I love all their personalised gifts, LOVE the fact that they have a whole section of ethical gift ideas, and also love love love the fabulous memo board they sent me, which now takes pride of place in my office and is practical as well as beautiful.
Still on my WANT list is the wall mounted herb rack and all the lovely gardening bits and bobs (I’m determined to have beautiful,...
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Mar 12th, 2012
The celeb stalking, mascara running, sob-inducing Tesco Mum of the Year awards
Yesterday morning, then, saw me heading up to London on the train, in my beautiful Boden cocktail dress, for the Tesco Mum of the Year awards. I felt like one of those girls that had stayed out all night and was doing the ‘walk of shame’ home on a Sunday morning. I tweeted as much. Little did I know that all tweets with the hashtag #TescoMumoftheYear would later appear up on the mahoosive screen...
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Mar 7th, 2012
A dress for Tesco Mum of the Year Awards. Boden to the rescue!
If I’m honest, I’m not one of those people you’d ever call ‘groomed’. In fact, the words ‘scruffy’ and ‘oh dear’ probably sum up my personal style.
So when a very flash looking invitation plopped through my letterbox, complete with lilac ribbon, inviting me to the swanky Tesco Mum of the Year awards ceremony at a very posh hotel in London, it prompted a...
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Mar 6th, 2012
Yeo Valley’s really rather revolutionary ‘make your own cheese’ cheesecake
So when we went down to Yeo Valley last week, I was telling them how much I wanted to have a go at ‘Jaime’s strawberry and rhubarb cheesecake‘ recipe that’s on their website.
‘Well go on, then’, they said, ‘feel free’.
So I did.
The thing that’s so appealing is that you get to MAKE YOUR OWN CHEESE. Yup, you read that right. It’s really simple (great...
