Month: August 2021
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Vtech Starlight Sounds polar bear keeps stopping? Do this right now!
So I bought this singing bear toy to get my child to sleep. The box says it has features. Like features. This bear can read a story, sing a song, play “nature sounds” (which include white noise) and do a mixture of singing a song with nature sounds in the background. Honestly? I have it […]
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A beautiful peacock butterfly came to visit
Following on from my posts about attracting pollinators to the garden and which plants are good for pollinators, my buddleja has been sitting outside the patio doors for the last couple of weeks waiting to be placed in its final spot (once the flowerbed has actually been laid) and we’ve had two lovely flying visitors! […]
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10 Plants for Pollinators in Ireland and UK (and how to plant them)
When we first viewed our new home, I was surprised that the back garden was just grass. There was no fencing on one side of the garden, either, and next door’s back garden (and the one after them) were also just grass. It seems like people on our street just don’t really bother about landscaping. […]
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Weekly writing prompt challenge: Average
This week, write 100 words about something average. How do you describe something that’s not big or small, not light or dark, not loud or quiet… just… average? This is an area I need to work on in my writing. Whenever I need to describe something average, I often find myself staring into space trying […]
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Fussy toddler? 10 easy ways to feed them healthy stuff!
If you listen to some people, all toddlers only eat alfalfa, olives, hummus and organic homemade raw vegan baby recipes that take only ten hours to make. Mine isn’t like that. He likes fish fingers and biscuits. It’s been pretty easy to get into bad habits this year, as budgets have been squeezed beyond breaking […]
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Super-fast vegan pasta salad
This healthy and nutritious vegan recipe takes fifteen minutes at the most including pasta cooking time. Perfect for a busy family’s midweek dinner or weekend lunch. When I was at univeristy, I had a friend from Catalonia who had a completely different view of cooking to me. When I went vegan for the first time […]
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Recycled sensory wall for babies
This was a great fun project to do and you probably already have everything you need for it as it’s 100% recycled. I did this project in September 2020. We were living in rented accommodation last year and one of the issues is you can’t attach anything to the walls (pretty standard rule in rented […]
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Our 12 favourite books for babies and toddlers under 2
I bought loads of books for Jellyfish before he was born. We were living in China at the time so every time I flew to the UK or America on a business trip, I would stop into a bookshop and pick up more baby books. I really wanted our bundle of joy to have the […]
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