The Beesley Buzz: 2020

Competition info: Children's Art Competition

We wanted to share info about a fabulous Children's Art competition currently running at JAR Project. It closes on Saturday 7th November so be sure to get your entries in before then. It's completely free to enter with great prizes to be won and is open to ALL children in the UK...

Let's #ACEit when washing whites!

I've been sent a bottle of ACE Ultra for Whites to try out. In our household, the main culprits for getting that dull grey look and hard-to-remove stains are the kids school polo shirts, shirts and white school socks. Common culprits: White school socks often end...

Chocolate chip loaf cake

Another day, another loaf cake. This time our chocolate cravings took hold so we made a chocolate chip chocolate loaf cake. I suppose it could be called a double-chocolate loaf cake as it has cacao powder in the batter as well as chocolate chips in it. Once again I tried to...

Lemon, poppy seed and basil loaf cake

One of my favourite cake flavour combinations has to be Lemon and Poppy seed. In the past, I've made gluten-free lemon and poppy seed cupcakes and even a vegan version of a lemon and poppy seed cake for GBBO's Vegan week bake along back in 2018. Lately I've been really...

Apple Cake with apples from the apple tree

It's that time of year again...time to find any apples on the apple tree that haven't been too badly eaten by insects. I tend to cut off the good bits to use in recipes and the bad bits go into the compost bin. I decided to make apple cake. I've made this Mary Berry apple...

Persian cooking: Fesen joon recipe

One of my biggest regrets is never learning to cook from my mum before it was too late. In her friendship group, she openly admitted that she wasn't the best cook when it came to Persian food but having tried to cook Persian food myself, I've realised that it isn't as easy at she...

Strawberry cookies?

We set out to make strawberry cookies, but ended up with something that was a cross between a cookie and a rock cake. Tasted biscuity-cookie-like enough but looked more like a rock cake. Either way, it tasted good.Ingredients:150g chopped fresh strawberries 100g caster sugar250g...

July 2020 unboxing video

So here we are at the end of another month. This year is truly flying by despite the awfulness of COVID-19. I've decided to take a break from doing an unboxing video in August. My heart wasn't really in it for the second part of July and it began to feel like a chore. I hate seeing myself on camera - I always look so miserable and I STILL don't know where to look...

My Squeebles family by Trinity

I woke up this morning to the cutest thing and have asked Miss T if I can share on the blog which she was happy for me to do. We are all BIG fans of the Squeebles apps from Key Stage Fun - a range of maths related and spelling apps for children. The kids have as much fun...

4 month isolation milestone

Today marks our 4 month isolation milestone. 4 months without proper contact with the outside world. 4 months without having gone into any kind of shop or building other than our own home. Many things day to day are the same as in our 3 month isolation update but...

Unicorn smoothie

I've wanted to have a go at making a layered smoothie for a while. I have a vague recollections of managing to make two tone ones a few years back by making sure one layer was a lot thicker than the other. Avocado smoothie as the bottom layer and peach smoothie on top. Vanilla...

June 2020 unboxing

So after a few trials and tribulations I finally managed to rescue my June unboxing video from my ancient iPad (which itself was a prize win from many years ago). Anyway, here it is! I've had a strange month emotionally again - I blame the COVID situation! At times, I've really enjoyed this hobby and at other times I've felt the negative feelings creeping in and feeling...

The Crossy Road King turns 16! Happy 16th Birthday Josh!

Dear Joshua, You came into our lives 16 years ago on a stormy night at 2.30am. You certainly kept us waiting. 9 days late beyond your due date and after a whopping 72 hours in labour, you eventually shot into the world like a rocket that night. And life has never been quiet since! From...

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