Kate

Step Into Spring

(so much fuss is made over the spring tulip, how about the spring pine cone?) ‘You make me feel so young. You make me feel like spring has sprung…’ or so Frank Sinatra crooned away…. Spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20, 2012, at 1:14 A.M. (EDT) or so the Farmers Almanac tells [...]

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a Simply~Charmed Life

Remember

It’s that time of year of remembering, thanking, and spending time with those who are near and dear to us. It has also been time to remember those that have fought in wars and conflicts past and present. This year Remembrance Day fell not just on the 11th day of the 11th month, but of [...]

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Autumn Colours

I am sitting by my kitchen window, feet up on the window sill, comfy Union flag (Jack) cushion beneath my ever increasingly padded behind. The warmth and golden glow of early evening light is casting longer and longer shadows across our back garden and I am watching (as well as typing this on my wonderful [...]

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Hurry Up – Slow Down

Print is from Dazey Chic, $20.00 for an 8×10. I quite like this one too! Do you ever get the feeling that there is something out there trying to get you to slow down? One Saturday evening, mid cooking dinner for my husband (boys asleep), dancing to The Black Eyed Peas, our power went out. [...]

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The “I” and “Me” in us…

{image via} I am thinking that most of us here, are parents. Children young, old, those that have yet to get out of nappies and those that have flown the nest (and may have returned!). Parents never-the-less. I definitely feel that ‘I’ sometimes, the ‘me’, the person who gave birth to these Duracell (Energizer) Bunnies [...]

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Ramblings Of Summer’s Gone…

It is a beautiful sunny warm, almost hot, afternoon here in my back garden. The Alberta sun is beating down, I can hear my two boys playing with our next door neighbour’s children and somewhere off to the west I can hear a summer storm rolling in. Mmmmm, summer. A word that when used here [...]

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Maria's Kitchen

Kate’s Carrot Soup

We all have one. Some may have more than one. Some fab-dinner party worthy ones, others last minute throw together ones or may be a trusty family comfort one. But we all have one. A recipe that you make without thinking about much ‘cos you know it so well. It is the old and trusty [...]

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Maria's Kitchen

Oaty-est Flapjack Cookies

I think for me, one of my comforting memories of biscuit eating is from the humble flapjack. Oats, and syrup have a great affiliation don’t you think? and as Maria would be quick to point out, it has all the ingredients of a breakfast which means you can eat them all day… as breakfast is [...]

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How-To Sunday

How-to Sunday Swimming Schools

So this was due to run last week but I had more than a few techincal difficulties. However, my trusty Mac is back and we are all set. So without further ado, here are some thoughts about preparing for summer safety and therefore fun and frolicks in the glorious days ahead…. My boys do very [...]

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How-To Sunday

How-to Make your mummy feel special.

We have 2 weeks to go before Mother’s Day (US & Canada) and I thought that I’d try and be organised for a change and give us all a chance to get prepared…. I say that because I just don’t feel that running out to the store to buy a bunch of flowers or an [...]

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