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Fairy Non-bio Gel
We were sent a little gift set, not sure it’s a ‘gift’ if it involves cleaning but it looked really nice when it arrived. The basket was filled with a bottle of Fairy Non-bio Gel, handwash, and a cloth. I’ve been using the gel all week and I’m really impressed, it’s simple and clean to use and makes the washing smell lovely, and I guess that’s all you can really ask for from a laundry detergent.
Bedtime Stories
I settled Erin down with the Bedtime Stories DVD …

Well, it’s all happening in the blogosphere at the moment isn’t it. Did anyone miss the double page spread in the Times? If you did the links are here;
Mums the word in cyberspace
Mummy bloggers hit Disney
Two great articles, and not just because I get a mention in both
The debate about reviews rumbles on with the majority favouring the ‘if we all pick our freebies wisely there is space for the review thing in the British blogosphere’.
A point that has been raised further with myself …

The spa at the five star Grand Floridian resort.

Wedding carriage complete with wigged horsemen.

The Disney 7 on the beach in front of the wedding chapel.

Lunch at the Grand Floridian, strawberries, feta, leaves, strawberry vinaigrette and roast cashews.

You’ll have heard of the recent muffin-off, well I decided that competitive baking wasn’t really my bag (I don’t even own a cake tin!), however, having seen Laura’s efforts (sorry Laura) I was compelled to give it a bish bash bosh (sorry, full to the brim with crohns and flu plus tablets, may be slightly delirious).
Of course I used Englishmum’s base muffin recipe, why wouldn’t you? It’s seriously good. I added white chocolate buttons (leftover from Easter) and pecans (leftover from previous planned baking sessions, all non-starters!)
Overall, …

Day three and we’re off to yet another restaurant for breakfast, this time it’s not a buffet which is actually quite unusual whether you’re staying inside Disney World or not, the ‘breakfast buffet’ is big business.
Spoodles is located on the boardwalk, near to the Flying Fish Cafe, we sat outside which was quite a novelty coming from Scotland.

The manager was quick to come and see us, he even organised some tasters for us including this beautiful fruit platter and one of their specialities flatbread pizza, one …

This recipe has been adapted from one I read somewhere, might have been Good Food or the Sainsbury’s magazine.
There isn’t all that much cooking involved and you get to cheat a little with the black bean sauce, makes an ideal weekday dinner.
It’s ‘budget’ as the original recipe called for pork fillet but I found that loin steaks work just as well (better?) as long as you cook them properly (see step one).

Serves 2
Ingredients;
3 Pork Loin Steaks
Black Bean Sauce
6 babycorn
3 spring onions
1 clove of garlic
Quarter tsp of ginger (fresh or …

There’s a lot of chatter about PR trips, freebies and paid blogging at the moment. I thought I’d add my own views, because that’s what us bloggers do isn’t it.
PR Trips
A few interesting conversations have come about recently, mainly off the back of the Disney trip. Should PR companies target bloggers. Should bloggers accept trips. Can reviews be trusted if the blogger has been lavished with freebies. It certainly seems to be on people’s minds as even when a journalist was interviewing me for the Times …

Last week I decided to write about my second miscarriage, as you know I came back from Florida five or six weeks pregnant, I was only back a few days when I had a miscarriage, my second in three months. It hurt like hell, not physically, but emotionally and mentally, the bits that are hard to heal.
This post about blogging as therapy explains it far better than I can, but in that moment it felt like the best therapy in the world, because sometimes you just need …

Evil Pig Dog Toy
My mum bought Erin this from Homebase for ?2.99, don’t ask me why (it’s a dog toy)… this thing seriously freaks me out, every time she makes it oink (which is often) I panic that I’ve inadvertently burped, and the pig’s name? Oink, of course. A quick video, demonstrated by Erin…

Super Soaker
Bought for ?4.99 one of the best value toys we own. Erin calls it her “choker, choker” which makes it sound more evil than ‘Oink’ but of course that’s impossible, because nothing is more evil …

As threatened here’s my photo diary of our night at Bunchrew House.

This is the view from the front. Erin called it her ‘castle’, it did look disticnctly like Archie’s pink castle in Balamory.

View of Beauly Firth from the rear of the house.

I read somewhere that wild bluebells were becoming quite rare, so I took a photo of some in the woodland surrounding Bunchrew.

Erin taking a break before we head down to the beach. I love this photo, I might get it blown up for the wall.

The …