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The blog of a developing fun family.
Listed: Sep 23, 2011
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetThis blog posy is our entry for MoneySupermarket’s “Inspect-A-Gadget“ competition MoneySupermarket are trying to find the best budget travel gadgets for 2013. They are interested in whether the cheaper gadgets match up to...
Tags: Family And Children
Childpatch ― 1 week 2 days ago
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetOur family have just been invited to a five year old’s birthday tea party. We’re all very excited, I know that my friend will go to a lot of trouble and it will be pretty and girlie. She’s planning a proper tea party with ...
Childpatch ― 3 weeks ago
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetOdd to say, but true we have coats for different times of year. Finally the thick winter coats have been relegated to the back of the understairs cupboard. I’m a heterosexual bloke so should I really care about clothes? Of course I ...
Tags: Dad Thoughts, Shopping, Dad, Dannimac Jacket, Jacamo, Men's Coats
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetThis month has had some highs and lows, I’m not going to blog about the lows they are too personal for here and no fun to read. But to cheer myself up, I thought I’d jot down all the things I like about Spring, feel free to add ...
Tags: Family And Children, 10 Things I Like, April, Beautiful Party Dresses, Car Boot Sales, Easter
Childpatch ― 3 weeks 1 day ago
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetI have three daughters aged 7, 5 and 1 year old. My 5 year old already shows an interest in boys and I dread it when she is older. In the next few years I hope to make friends with farmers, perhaps my farmer friends could then come and clean...
Tags: Family And Children, Boyfriend, Boyfriends, Coat, House Rules, Men's Coats
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetI was really pleased when Chiara Stone asked if my daughters would like to review an acrylic necklace from the Hoobynoo World range. Chiara is a crafty lady who has invented some lovely bright characters for children’s jewellery. My ...
Childpatch ― 3 weeks 4 days ago
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetMuch is made of holidays in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia, but there’s so much more to Spain outside of these well-known tourist destinations. Namely, Spain is also home to several Mediterranean islands which have a way of seamlessly...
Tags: Holidays And Days Out, Holidays, Ibiza, Majorca, Menorca, Planes
Childpatch ― 7 weeks 3 days ago
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetWhen we had our first daughter in retrospect we were very clueless. After the joys of labour my husband left me in the hospital and I looked at the perfect little hairy bundle and didn’t know what to do next. I’m a very practical...
Tags: Family And Children, Pregnancy
Childpatch ― 7 weeks 4 days ago
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetMy daughter had a friend for tea recently, we served this and not the usual fish fingers and chips. She really liked it, so I am sharing now for her mum and others Ingredients Small amount of oil or 20g butter small leek or onion 1 x clove ...
Tags: Easy Dinners, Family And Children, Ceoliac, Chicken, Rice, Risotto
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetFirstly I should state that no horses were harmed in the making of this dish and you won’t see the reported levels of salt that some of our top chefs seem to use in their restaurants. My Italian meatballs are a simple tasty alternative ...
Tags: Dad Thoughts, Recipe Ideas, Beef, Diabetes, Diet, Easy Cooking
Childpatch ― 8 weeks 5 days ago
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetThis weekend I got a lovely bouquet of flowers, just because it is #AlmostMothersDay. They are quite beautiful and a huge thanks to Flower Council. Childpatch are giving away another beautiful bouquet on behalf of the Flower Council. All you...
Tags: Giveaway, Giveaway
Childpatch ― 10 weeks 5 days ago
Childpatch - Family fun and frustrations ― TweetI don’t really have a sweet tooth so have to try hard to get things right when it comes to sweet things especially fluffy light cakes. However this cake is sweet, light, fluffy and tasty. It would be my starting point on the Great ...
Tags: Recipe Ideas, Carbs, Dad, Diabetes, Diet, Easy Cooking
Childpatch ― 10 weeks 6 days ago
I was way too excited about being a mother- for the first time. I was told many beautiful ...
Most people have experienced some level of acute pain in the lower back, shoulders, or ...
Last Thursday we had dinner at the Pancake Parlour, Andy & I. ∙ He ordered the ...