I have spent Christmas in three different places over the past 23 years - at my nan’s, at my mum’s and at my mother in law’s. Here is the fare at each of them.
Nan
My nan likes cooking. I spent christmas at her house for at least half of my childhood years.

Starter - Salmon [...]

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Candles
I love the scented candles they bring out at this time of year. We have clootie dumpling and spiced fruit and vanilla this year.
Church
I’m not really religious so I don’t attend church over the festive period. I concentrate my time on my family. What about you?
Christmas Pudding
I don’t like Christmas Pudding bah humbug [...]

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Christmas morning breakfast as a child consisted of a filled roll of bacon or sausage and a cup of coffee. My mother didn’t enjoy cooking
These days it consists of a pre-breakfast drink (alcoholic!) followed by a full cooked breakfast prepared by my husband or my father in law with orange juice, then [...]

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This is one of the first symbols that Christmas is approaching. The advent calendar starts on 1st December.
My childhood advent calendar usually consisted of a shop bought milk chocolate calendar, with favourite cartoon characters on the front, and in my teenage years a favourite boy band (yes, I admit, I was a take [...]

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Hi folks, thanks for your patience.
I’m finally getting back to blogging after all the changes and laptop problems.
I am going to start a new series ‘A-Z of Christmas’ which as you can imagine will be an alphabetical look through all the stuff to do with christmas. I will be including links, [...]

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This is a fun way to lead up to christmas, I also sense the opportunity to disguise some chores (if you can call them chores!) that need to be done before christmas (decorating, baking, wrapping, clearing out etc..) wrapped up in lots of fun, of course.

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Make this fab counting ice cream game for your toddler. Suitable for the anti-crafter.

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Make a cute hedgehog from a pine cone.

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As I mentioned in my previous post my laptop broke. Over the past few days I have been catching up. I have good and bad news.
The Good News
I have been working a lot on the features at littlemummy.com. The directory has been replaced by a browse and buy section and a resources [...]

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This car mat would make a great winter project for the kids

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