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BlogMas Day Five – Christmas Tree, O’ Christmas Tree
View recipe: BlogMas Day Five – Christmas Tree, O’ Christmas TreeI had planned to do a speed decorating video of me doing the tree but it didn’t quite work out what with the absolutely hectic end to last week so I thought I would share some pictures and tell you where I got some of our Christmas decorations from in a post instead! I decided…
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BlogMas Day Four – Gingerbread Star Cookies
View recipe: BlogMas Day Four – Gingerbread Star CookiesNothing smells as Christmassy as some mulled wine warming and some gingerbread cooking. Yesterday we had my mum, dad and brother over for Sunday lunch so thought we would get them in the festive spirit. Leo loves cooking and baking so he took the helm to make some Gingerbread biscuits while I focused on the…
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BlogMas Day 3 – Long Car Journeys With The Boys
View recipe: BlogMas Day 3 – Long Car Journeys With The BoysEvery other Friday I drive down to Essex to pick the boys up from school. It takes about 7 hours there and back, so I use Audible on the way there to keep me entertained and then pack the boys up lots to do on the way back. Rush hour traffic on a Friday is…
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BlogMas Day 2 – 12 Days Of Christmas Chronic Illness Style
View recipe: BlogMas Day 2 – 12 Days Of Christmas Chronic Illness StyleOn the 12th day of Christmas, chronic illness gave to me 12 breakfast tablets, 11 early nights, 10 pred rages, 9 fill your faces, 8 doctor visits, 7 bouts of brain fog, 6 non-alcoholic cocktails, 5 swollen joints, 4 heat pads, 3 bag leaks, 2 stool samples, and a blockage cuz I ate nuts!
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BlogMas Day 1 – Top Ten Christmas Movies
View recipe: BlogMas Day 1 – Top Ten Christmas MoviesSo for anyone who doesn’t know what BlogMas is… it means I am going to be posting a blog every day between now and Christmas. I may have gone slightly mad thinking that this was a good idea! Let’s see how I keep up! I hope everyone is well and ready to enjoy all these…
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Recipe – Cheese, Bacon and Spring Onion Potato Pie
View recipe: Recipe – Cheese, Bacon and Spring Onion Potato PieThis is a super easy and delicious recipe, perfect for midweek. I made it for myself and had plenty left over which I froze for future meals. This is a great idea for when you are chronically ill. When I am having a bad day, it is great to know I have a freezer full…
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Am I Confident In The New Salts Confidence BE Ostomy Bags?
View recipe: Am I Confident In The New Salts Confidence BE Ostomy Bags?So there has been a lot of excitement surrounding the launch of the new Salts Confident BE ostomy bags and I was really looking forward to trying them out. I use Salts bags anyway, so was really hoping to find out whether these would be an ‘upgrade’ to the ones I currently use and love. …
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A New Chapter…
View recipe: A New Chapter…I have had a few people asking after me and about how the boys are doing so I thought it was time to share a little update about what has been happening since they went to live with their Dad (see my previous post which explains what happened here). As you can imagine, it has…
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