Christmas Dinner – how do you do yours?
Furniture Village is running a properly brilliant Christmas Countdown, where users can click on the different items of furniture within the page and receive Christmas tips and activities, as well as weekly competitions to enter. This week just happens to be all about dining room furniture… and it got me thinking about mine. The Christmas menu doesn’t change much in our house – I can go back to last year’s...
Woodburners from a sheet of metal to a stove in 20 minutes – Visiting Arada Stoves
We’re so very excited about the latest project in the House of LittleStuff. When we built our extension 143 years ago we always intended to have an open fire. But architects and builders being what they are, issues with the plans meant that once the foundations were complete and the walls going up, it was established that the planned fireplace couldn’t happen, and there was no budget left to re-arrange the existing works...
Wellness CORE dog food – grain-free pet food
NB – the following Wellness CORE dog food review has been really very willingly reviewed by #BlueTheRottweiler. We were gifted the bag of food – all opinions Blue’s own, obviously, because dog’s can’t lie. Unless you have a dog, you don’t think pet food differs much. You’re probably aware it can be wet or dry, and you’ve seen it’s in different flavours in the supermarket. But...
The Chicken Run – what happened when it rained…
Chickens don’t like the rain. I mean, they REALLY don’t like the rain. Actually, this should have been No. 11 in the Things I Didn’t Know About Chickens list (I suspect this list is going to continue to grow…). It makes them moody and depressed and grumpy and shouty. And I’m sure they do everything they can to look way more bedraggled than they actually are, just to gain a few more cabbage leaves out of...
A week of moments with Popchips #GetPopped
Have you seen Popchips yet? They’re the potato crisp that has been popped rather than fried, so you’re getting all the taste, but only the half the fat content of a regular fried crisp. Last week Popchips were celebrating the launch of two flavours (Sea Salt and BBQ) in multi-packs of six, and as they believe that everyday should be filled with fun and uplifting moments I was challenged to take some time to enjoy a series...
The Chicken Run – The Day The Chickens Came
It’s been running through my head for a week; “The chickens are coming! The chickens are coming!” We have been talking about keeping chickens for… oh, probably 23 years. Ever since we bought our house, and saw that the deeds allow us to keep 12 chickens and a cockerel. I mean really, if the deeds of your house state it, it’s almost a moral obligation, isn’t it? But we’ve never got further than...