How to Make Your Family Holiday Stress Free

March 4, 2022July 27, 2022 Jayne1 Comment

I don’t know about you, but our family is in serious need of a holiday sometime soon. Living through lockdown has been stressful for everyone, and while I have enjoyed the extra time at home with my family, a change of scenery is something that we are sorely craving right now. We’ve been thinking forward to a time when we’ll be able to get away and some of the organisational things that we can do in advance to make any trip we do take stress free, so I thought I would share some of these ideas with you today in case you are in the process of organising your own family vacation.

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Minimising Excess Complexity In Your Professional Life

January 19, 2022March 4, 2022 JayneLeave a comment

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Everyone wants to thrive in their professional life as well as in their personal life, and to enjoy the greatest possible degree of success and accomplishment.

Whether you are trying to excel and get promoted as an employee, or whether you are trying to achieve entrepreneurial success, however, there is a lot to be said for “keeping things simple,” and looking for ways to minimise excess complexity in your professional life.

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Cooking and Recipes · How To

Edible Sparklers

November 5, 2012December 8, 2013 Jayne2 Comments

We’re not much ones for Bonfire Night in the Mum’s the Word house; as dog owners, it tends to just upset the whole household and we find it hard to enjoy.

One thing we can enjoy though is Bonfire Night food and these edible sparklers are super simple to make and super fun to get the kids involved in. You’ll need:

Cadbury’s fingers (we used the milk chocolate ones)

Edible cake sprinkles

A cup of boiling water

Dip the tip of a choccy finger into the hot water for about 5 seconds

Dip the melted end into the sprinkles, which you’ll need to spread onto a saucer

Leave to set for a while before nomming in large quantities, preferably with a nice cup of tea.