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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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English Mum |
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...
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Mar 5th, 2012
‘I don’t know what happened… it just fell off!’ The Spontaneous Unexplained Incident.
‘Teenagers’. To quote Sebastian from The Little Mermaid: ‘they think they know everything. Give them an inch, they swim all over you’.
Mine are relatively tame… apart from the odd bout of scariness and the odd error of judgement (which would make your hair curl) they’re quite polite… do as they’re told and are good fun. One of the things I HATE, though,...
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Mar 4th, 2012
Review: The Village Gate, Wendover, Bucks
We’ve had a bit of an up and down relationship with the Village Gate. We went there en famille (and we’re a grande famille, trust me) for my Mum’s birthday last year and had an excellent time. The place is absolutely gorgeous: a typical village pub revamped in a really clever, stylish way. The menu was great – creative and varied, the service fast and friendly and the food was as...
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Mar 1st, 2012
Tesco’s new price drop: vote with your keyboard.
Read any self-respecting food blogger’s posts and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the only things in our supermarket trolleys are stuff like truffle oil, organic this, free-range that, puy lentils and 90% dark chocolate.
Of course I’d love to tell you that’s true, but the reality is that my teenagers hit the kitchen like a plague of locusts every evening after school and yes, I’m...
