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My eldest baby is 12 today. Only one more year until I am the mother of a teenager. Gulp. She wanted a salted caramel brownie birthday cake this year. It isn't elegant, but my quality control sampling of the offcuts confirm that it tastes pretty good.
Is there a word for the token slices of cucumber and halved cherry tomatoes we put on the side of the plate in order to kid ourselves that the frozen pizza supermarket we feed our children on a Friday night is a balanced and wholesome meal?
Public service announcement: drizzly, February, home-schooling, lockdown Mondays can be dramatically improved by the baking (and eating) of a clementine cake.
Handpainted Valentine's card for my beloved this year. Rather proud of my resourceful make do and mend approach to the shops being shut. I will be making my own clothes and growing my own cabbages before we know where we are. Thank you to @jenniemaizels for the sketchbook club tutorial.
There are definitely days when the daily mid morning walk my 6yo needs to get her through the online learning feels more penance than pleasure. We have walked round our neighbourhood SO many times now.
We used our morning break to come and feed the ducks. However, the ducks clearly hadn't got the memo because they didn't show up. So we fed this lone swan instead.

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