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  • Madame’s Maiden Voyage Sept 2010

    It’s Madame’s birthday tomorrow.  We decided to buy her a balance bike.  After a lot of research we went for the Puky as it has a scooter like platform to put your feet on.  She loves it!

  • Do dad’s babysit?

    One of my pet hates is when mum’s or dad’s say that ‘dad is babysitting’.  You don’t babysit your own kids or so I thought!  I babysat for a friend last night and it made me think about this.  As a teen I used to do a lot of babysitting.  One of my most memorable…

  • Easy Slow Cooker Lamb Curry

    Ingredients: 1 tbs of oil (whatever you have on hand) 1 onion, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 125 ml beef stock (half a stock cube) 1 400g tin of chopped tomatoes 1 Tbs of oil 500g of lamb (you could use pork or chicken), cut into bite size pieces 2 tbs Patak’s Mild Curry…

  • Giant Monopoly St Albans 2010

    On Sunday, St. Albans was turned into a Giant Monopoly Board.  It was the brainchild of the Arts, Sports & Health Team.  The whole idea was to get people exercising whilst taking in some of the local sites.  There were 3 routes to choose from with a number of checkpoints along the way.  We chose…

  • Man Drawer

    I can’t believe I’d never heard of the comedian Michael McIntyre, he is so funny.  Here’s his routine on Man Drawers. Do you have a Man Drawer in your house? We do…..you never know when you’re going to need that old mobile phone, strimmer string, padlock or radiator key??

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