The Beesley Buzz: September 2016

When is a washing machine not a washing machine?

When it is your friend. When it is on your side. When you no longer feel restricted to only using the one cycle that you understand. When it meets your every laundry need. When it feels like it has been built to be fully customisable for your own family. When you don't feel you can...

GBBO Week 6 - Botanical week - Sunflower Seed and Courgette cake reblogged

'Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.'* For this weeks Mummy Mishaps GBBO Bloggers bake off, I'm reblogging an Autumnal recipe from last year which fits the botanical theme...Inspired by the things growing in my garden.... Autumn....

A summer of wanderlust with Pink Lining

wanderlust ˈwɒndəlʌst/ noun a strong desire to travel. We could not have been sent a more aptly named bag from Pink Lining this summer. Our summer was filled with travel adventures and it was very much a case of "have bag, will travel" The Sunflowers Wanderlust Rucksack...

My Dubai round-up post

Here's a post purely for my own benefit I'm afraid...I like to have holiday diary posts all in one place so I can find them easily in future so here are the posts we wrote for our Dubai 2016 holiday: Dubai Diaries - Day 1 - A magical dream - Rove Hotel, SEGA republic, Dubai...

Clean Eating Strawberry Bakewell Tart - GBBO week 5

I'm not going to get into talking about the news surrounding Bake Off and who is staying and who is going with the show moving channel, I'm going to enjoy it this year for what it is about...Baking and people's passion for baking. So for pastry week, I wanted to join in without...

Getting out of the lunchbox rut thanks to Flora!

I am genuinely and sincerely grateful to Flora for sending us a cute lunchbox with a little leaflet of ideas for kid's packed lunches. Whilst school dinners have come a long way since I was a child, sadly when it comes to packed lunches it is all too easy to get stuck in a lunchbox...

A Wicked Weekend in London

Once in a while it is nice to put the camera down and visit somewhere with absolutely no intention of blogging about it. After writing so much about our trip to Dubai recently, I wanted to actually take a bit of a rest from blogging about any trips. But we had such a fabulous weekend,...

Dubai Diaries - Day 4 - Adventures at Aquaventure

Written on Sunday 4th September 2016 (apologies for photo quality - most taken with a waterproof camera at waterpark) It's now 6am Sunday 4th September. We arrived home yesterday lunchtime UK time after a comfortable yet busy flight home with Emirates having had to wake up super...

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