After a hectic final week at school, it was lovely to head into a two-week break for Easter. We went visiting family in Hastings, which is a...

  Just in time for the school holidays, the postie dropped off this month's Degustabox. Its Snacking and New Recipes theme fit in perfec...

Last week was a majorly busy week and somehow this week didn't seem much better. On Monday, we had a training day at school, followed by...

  I really feel like spring has sprung in the past week or so. Temperatures are rising, we've had lots of sunshine and very little rain ...

It's been a busy old week. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, I had after school meetings for each class to discuss each pupil's resul...

Last week, I ended up coming down with a stinking rotten cold - probably the result of the changing weather that I mentioned last week. I fe...

As I write this menu plan, the sun is shining brightly outside and I feel like we're in the midst of spring. I'm hopeful that this w...

Last week, we finally got around to going to the travel agent's to book this year's summer holiday. We'll be heading off for two...

  Here at The Madhouse, we get through vast quantities of butter. I blame it on the Breton heritage of the kids - I can remember their Breto...

I haven't done a menu plan for the past two weeks as we've been on half term holiday and went to Hastings to catch up with the famil...