We'll be taking a short blogging and social media break for the rest of August.
If you are trying to get in touch with us, please be patient.
Enjoy the rest of August...
A passion for Pink Lining...A dream come true!

You may remember earlier in the summer that we wrote a blogpost and made a couple of videos to share our passion for a certain brand...a brand that we adore, a brand that's been part of our lives for several years and just as the tagline on their website says...'designed for our...
Bake Off Biscuit Week: Naan berenji - Persian Rice flour Shortbread
This week was biscuit week on bake off and I loved the look of all those biscotti. I'd love to have a go at cooking biscotti one day. For my biscuit week bake I wanted to look back to my roots, my heritage, and make an Iranian biscuit.
I remember these rice shortbreads from...
A whizz around the kitchen
I can't say I like cleaning. In fact, I really don't enjoy cleaning so I try to make the process as quick and pain-free as possible. That's where having great products that make the job easier really helps.
We've long been fans of the e-cloth range of products. Since discovering...
Book review: Hotel Alpha, by Mark Watson

Review by Richard Beesley.
This unique book by Mark Watson tells the story of Hotel Alpha, a fictional hotel in London, over the decades from its opening through to the unravelling of the intertwined and complex tales of both guests and owners.
Told from the viewpoints of Graham...
'The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire.'
Our 9 year old son has three big passions in life - cooking, playing guitar and art. One of the ways he unwinds and relaxes is by escaping to his room and drawing pictures and comic strips. Sometimes he'll express how he is feeling through his drawings like when he drew this...
Pain
Like a dark rain cloud appearing suddenly in the summer sky,Like a black crow swooping down out of nowhere to steal the seeds,Like a predator lurking in the shadows waiting for its moment to pounce.Pain tearing trough my body, my back.Unable to move, unable to think. All-consuming pain. So hard to concentrate.On anything other than the pain.The worries soon...
5,4,3,2,1...Thunderbirds have Landed!
You may remember that earlier this summer we got involved in some special Thunderbirds Missions to coincide with the release of the new Thunderbirds DVD. We got to review the Thunderbirds.com website and share our thoughts on the new Thunderbirds DVD.
Well there is more exciting news about Thunderbirds...This time it's TOY related...watch this....
So I know exactly...
On your Marks, Get Set, Bake Madeira cake!
It's that time of year again when Bake Off fever sweeps the nation and people take to their blogs to show off their amazing showstopper creations. For me, the story tends to be different - I often end up with a catalogue of baking disasters that I giggle about.
Baking is a relatively...
A glittery rhyming treat of a book, you really will love it so take a look!
Miss T is just beginning to take an Interest in rhyming words. She loves watching rhyme rocket on cbeebies and often tells us that 'eye' rhymes with 'pie' and 'moon' rhymes with 'spoon' after watching it. She likes to make up little songs and will happily make up 'nonsense' words...
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