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Archive for March 2019

#GlobalBlogging 102

Happy Monday everyone and welcome to Global Blogging! Wherever you are in the world, come and join me and Heather at Shank You Very Much! You can link up any 2 posts then please comment on both host posts and the one in front of yours. Please encourage your friends to join us by sharing […]

Why I DON’T limit screen time

The MOMO hoax has been much in the news recently but, now that the moral panic has subsided, common sense is back. We live in a complicated technological world. Technology was supposed to free us but I think it constrains us more than ever. Parenthood is tricky as we try to negotiate the need for […]

#Project365 week 10

Day 62: family day with my sister and her children. We forgot to get any pics until we were all leaving: Zach was not being cooperative!   Day 63: every single morning starts like this! Zach comes in during the night and gradually pushes us out! I start where his feet are (I always like […]

Vegan tofu mocha mousse

My first attempt at a tofu mousse was hugely successful! I’ll admit that I had only ever eaten tofu as part of a savoury dish so I really had no idea what it would be like as a sweet one! Ingredients: 350g silken tofu 50g dark chocolate (check it is vegan!) 1 tablespoon instant coffee […]

Sweet Escape at Bayside, by Addison Cole

This book is the fourth in Addison Cole’s Sweet With Heat Bayside series. In Sweet Passions at Bayside, we saw Desiree find love despite her troubled upbringing. In this book, her sister Violet gets her chance at romance. We met Violet in the other Bayside books. She is strong, bold and unconventional. However, there is […]