Easy Ways to Make Your Own Designed Cupcakes
Jun09

Easy Ways to Make Your Own Designed Cupcakes

A study showed that time spent in the kitchen would alleviate stress and anxiety, and also boost awareness. The cooking and baking process not only contributes to improving mood and emotions (I’m definitely a comfort baker – often cracking out the mixer and pans at 9 in the evening), but also naturally enhances the feeling of satisfaction achieved by the look of the finished product. Baking has become something of a...

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How to create an outdoor cinema in your back garden
May19

How to create an outdoor cinema in your back garden

We’ve been looking at how to ‘create an outdoor cinema in your back garden’ – with no cinemas open for what would seem the rest of the summer, this is a perfect project for anyone with some outside space. We tend to do it in the back garden, but I love Kirstie from The Adventure Project’s idea of a pop up cinema in a wild location. easy peasy – an outdoor cinema in your back garden Tesco have compensated...

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Top Tech During Lockdown – what people are really buying
May15

Top Tech During Lockdown – what people are really buying

So, what is the top tech during lockdown that people are really buying? Officially we have been in Lockdown for 8 weeks now, yup 8 whole weeks (or 2 months) since the 23rd of March. It’s kind of hard to say that really isn’t it? Something we never ever thought would or could happen, but it has and we just have to get used to it. So during the lockdown we have watched people magnificently turn their talents and minds to all...

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School Dinners Cornflake Tart – remember?
May06

School Dinners Cornflake Tart – remember?

The real, actual, proper, straight-from-the-school-cooks-mouth recipe for 1970’s School Dinners Cornflake Tart. For some strange reason I have had a longing to make this for ages. On chatting to various friends-of-a-certain-age about school dinners, one dish was universally clamoured after, no matter where we went to school. The School Dinners Cornflake Tart. You remember it? Thin Pastry base, layer of jam, then crunchy golden...

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Easy Pavlova Recipe – simple, delicious and NEVER fails
Apr28

Easy Pavlova Recipe – simple, delicious and NEVER fails

This Easy Pavlova Recipe, it really is the most amazing thing. It’s funny, I didn’t make pavlova for years – purely because I thought it was really hard and complicated. Meringue is tricky, right?Not so! It’s dead easy. And universally popular – everyone always comes back for seconds, there really won’t be any leftovers. easy Pavlova By Elena Zajchikova | Shutterstock This Easy Pavlova Recipe Serves...

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It’s the Lockdown Bumper Edition | LittleStuff April 20 is out now
Apr20

It’s the Lockdown Bumper Edition | LittleStuff April 20 is out now

This month’s issue of the LittleStuff magazine is a bit late; because a couple of weeks ago the first COVID Lockdown was announced. I sighed and dumped all the paid-for content I had spent hours carefully laying out… Instead I’ve taken my time to pull together everything useful I can find for teen families in lockdown. This bumper issue (genuinely the biggest issue I’ve ever pulled together, by a long...

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