Banana muffins recipe (No added sugar)

When D came home from school with banana muffins he had made in food tech that tasted amazing, I knew I wanted to make some more but wondered if they would work as well without any added sugar. So I added an extra banana to the recipe, increased the amount of sultanas and took...

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Day 5 - Summer Holidays 2018 - National Space Centre - Leicester

Day 5 was the last day of our summer break and it was the day we were heading home. We had noticed that en-route home there was a space centre in Leicester. Little did I realise that we'd spend the whole day there and love it SO much. It was a little further off the motorway than...

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Day 4 - Alton towers - Summer Holidays 2018

Whilst it may seem like I have missed out Day 3 of our break, I didn't actually take any decent photos to share. It was actually a stressful day with issues with J in the morning and D in the afternoon. We visited Cannock Chase country park which was a lovely place to visit but...

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Day 2 - Summer 2018 - Blue John Cavern, Mam Tor and Bakewell

One of my friends has visited the Peak District a lot so I knew she would be full of great ideas on places to visit.  So taking her recommendations on board, we spent the day visiting the fascinating Blue John Cavern, stunning National Trust site Mam Tor and then stopped...

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Summer holidays 2018 - Day 1 arriving in Staffordshire

Just catching up on more of last year's blog posts. I like to capture our time away on the blog so I didn't want to miss our summer holiday in 2018. We didn't go abroad but instead had a midweek break staying at Moorecourt cottages in Upper Leigh, Staffordshire.  The...

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Dad

Why is it the the times you most feel the need to write that the words are the hardest to find. It was on Easter Sunday last year that I lost my dad.  The memories of losing my mum back in 2002 are still far fresher than one would imagine and the responsibility of her funeral...

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Honest Mum's Mumboss book launch afternoon tea

I have so much blogging to catch up on that I can't decided whether to get the more recent December and Christmas posts done or to plough through the rest of 2018 to continue to get my phone cleared of the older photos first...Well I decided this one is well overdue as it is from...

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