My brother absolutely loves chocolate muffins, they’ve been his favourite breakfast for as long as I can remember and my mum’s been buying them for him on special occasions for just as long. Now that we’ve all got a little healthier in my family he doesn’t have them quite so often, but when he goes to stay with our mum she’ll still buy him a packet as a treat. It’s the same with Mr H and my mother in law, she always always buys him crumpets for brekkie when we come to stay, so maybe it’s something all mothers do for their grown up sons. Continue reading →

I’m a real girly girl – in my opinion you can NEVER have too much pink, it’s just not possible. I’m 30 years old, yet when I go into clothes shops I find myself drawn to the kids clothes section and wishing that some of their pink sparkly numbers came in my size. So when I gave birth to my daughter I was so excited that I could live my life through rose tinted everything vicariously through her. Turns out she’s a bit of a tomboy – sod’s law hey! Continue reading →

Ginger makes me think of a lot of lovely people;

1) my grandpa, who used to use it by the tonne in his vegetable soups (they were delicious but boy did they make my nose run)

2) my mum, who loves those boxes you get of dark chocolate covered crystallised gingers

3) my dad, who always has a lemon and ginger tea when he comes over and the kettle’s on; and

4) my lovely husband, who also uses it by the shedload when he makes us juices in the morning (yep, he’s a keeper) Continue reading →