A most unusual career: Dead people and throbbing pasions, Violet Fenn’s story
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Pudsey in a cake tin – Whitbread
Things I’ve learned but wish I hadn’t
Boys about to discover that it’s really cold in there This week I made the rather surprising discovery that poo doesn’t melt or dissolve when washed at 90 degrees on a cotton wash. No. It tucks itself into the rubber seal and waits to pounce. This moment of domestic education led me to consider the […]
Teenagers: the stereotype is true
At first when you get a baby (once the colic and breastfeeding misery is over with) it is really rather lovely. They smile sweetly and you adore them. People say “just you wait for the Terrible Twos”, but you ignore them. Your cute little butter ball couldn’t possibly have a tantrum. Then he does – […]
Ritual abuse – they told me she was crazy.
Shortbreading the news – Whitworths
Yes it really was as messy as this! As, ahem, a baking ambassador for Whitbread it is clear that some baking is required. Normally the baking in our house is done by Boy One who is currently fixated on all matters culinary. However, he was elsewhere when the domestic muse came upon us. Boy Two and Three […]