Ink-spots and grass-stains

Today I visited our local Community Fridge for the first time.  This is run by a local Community Enterprise, run by volunteers who are passi...

  If you're looking for a quick and easy craft to use up fabric scraps and create something lovely, then this is right up your street.  ...

Hubby had these drawers (a lot of them!) to house his cassette tape collection.  Younger readers hop on to Wikipedia for an explanation ...

I don't know where I got this idea from, but since I have a daughter who likes to combine her love of all things girlie with a propens...

I've just done my first weekly grocery shop in February.  If you're new to this, check out my Feed your family for £50 challenge p...

Is it possible to feed your family for under £50 per week, while still providing healthy, home-cooked food?   I appreciate that I'm ...

I was directed to this blog by my little sis.   She saw an article about it in The Telegraph , and sent me the link.  Once I started read...

A local Under-5 group have an annual toy sale.  I think they aim for this time of year deliberately as they know that parents are thinking o...

Another super easy activity here: Take a basket or bag of pegs, show the children how to peg them on to the basket or a box and then just...

Paint pots for toddler painting . Rather than using conventional paint pots (which you have to buy) for painting with toddlers, make us...

Another cheap and free idea for entertaining a toddler.  I just provided a range of items from the recycling box - pizza boxes, lightbulb b...

I'm a member of a parenting web forum.  One recent thread asked this question and I couldn't resist answering it, as there is so  m...