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He has done it! The work trial is just “because they can”. Lets face it, if you could get away with employing a manager for 2 weeks and it costing nothing then you would!
My husband is the Manager of a sandwich shop and café. We have the serious chance in the future to sublet the premises [...]

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It’s a play day

After our sad few days I’ve had a pretty constant headache so I decided yesterday that today would be a quiet play day to allow myself to relax with Katie.
This morning Robyn got up complaining of a sore throat and said she’d like to stay at home. I figured that she needed a quiet play day [...]

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!
Just a quick one today with a picture and recipe of my Simnel Cake. I have used this recipe from Nigella Lawsons “Feast” book a couple of times now. It is very yummy!
You can find some information about the origins of a Simnel cake here

Ingredients.
100g glacé cherries
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
500g mixed [...]

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I recieved a beautiful bunch of tulips from Anthony this morning. Tulips are my all time favourite flower. My wedding bouquet was made with tulips. I love it when they start appearing in the shops, it feels like spring is finally on its way. 
Tonight we’re having a lovely meal just the 2 of us at home. [...]

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Ten on Tuesday this week is “10 great things that happened this summer”. The weather has been becoming nice and autumnal lately… crisp and bright, rather than the rain and dull weather that accompanied the “summer” here in the UK! It seems a good time to look back at the summer

We had a [...]

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Just a quick blog tonight as soon dh & I are sitting down to a yummy dinner of steak, chips, onion rings and mushrooms to celebrate my 30th birthday!
I’ve had a lovely day… it began last night when mum and dad came round for a fathers day/birthday meal. We had a really fab evening.
This morning I have [...]

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Happy Birthday Grandad

It would have been my dear Grandads birthday today. 96 years.
I miss him.
He would have loved Robyn and Katie. He would have teased them like mad and would have spoiled them rotten just like he used to with me and my sister.
As kids we used to visit Grandad and within minutes he would shuffle off [...]

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Well we made it to a year of wedded bliss!
We celebrated yesterday with a child free afternoon out in Manchester. Robyn is at her Grannys house for the week so after dropping Katie off at my mum & dads house we got on a train and in under an hour we were in the city centre.
We strolled [...]

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