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Recipe: How to make snow ice cream!

Snow Ice Cream What do you do when life give you snow? Make snow ice cream of course! This recipe is incredibly easy. There are only 4 ingredients – evaporated milk, sugar, vanilla and snow! It’s loads of fun to make. Make it yourself, or have the kids help. You’ll …

Wonder: A film for the whole family! #choosekind #wonderthemovie

Wonder, by R. J Palacio, is a special book in our family. We first heard about it as recommended reading from the headmistresses of the girls’ school. It’s about August Pullman, a 10-year-old boy with a severe facial disfigurement who enters mainstream primary school for the first time. It’s told …

Fujifilm X-A3: Beyond the smartphone #ad

I’ll let you in on a little secret. I’m not a photographer! I’m a travel blogger that likes taking photos and up until recently relied mainly on my smartphone for images. Start talking metering with me and my eyes glaze over. I just want amazing photos! Relying solely on my smartphone for images …

Holidays: Tips for staying safe in the sun

I love how the sun makes me feel while I’m on holiday – warm, alive and happy! But I don’t love that it can be a health risk. My uncle died of melanoma more than a decade ago, and I’m keen to protect my family from harmful rays. I was …

Do you say Cali?

The first time I heard the apocopation Cali I cringed. I almost broke London etiquette and corrected the offenders on the tube. They had smart Prada bags, looked like they were in PR, and were discussing a recent trip to “Cali”. Erm, no one in California would actually use the term Cali. They …

Good Reads: 11 fantastic book club suggestions

I’ve belonged to all different types of book clubs. There was the couples only book club a while back, led by a literature graduate. Each session was a mini dissertation on the selected book (oh the pressure). Then there was the book club where we only picked classics. I …

A glimpse into the future

It’s quiet this morning. None of the usual arguing over shoes and hair bands. No asking for pancakes. No un-flushed toilets. Just silence, sweetened occasionally by late spring chirps. A clock ticking, car whirring, tummy rumbling. Waiting. The girls were all away this weekend. The youngest two at Brownie camp …

Expat conversations at Tesco’s Fresh & Easy

Tesco’s Fresh & Easy has been in the news lately, having failed to capture the US market. Some say the Tesco formula just didn’t translate. I found myself there recently, in search of mint sauce. After passing through the produce section, and stocking up on Peeps from the Easter display, I finally …

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Recipe: How to make snow ice cream!

Wonder: A film for the whole family! #choosekind #wonderthemovie

Fujifilm X-A3: Beyond the smartphone #ad

Holidays: Tips for staying safe in the sun

Do you say Cali?

Good Reads: 11 fantastic book club suggestions

A glimpse into the future

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