Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Have you taken up the 200-night trial period for any Simba mattress topper, bed and mattress in your own home? Simba are confident that you will love your purchase after just one night! And yes, we love it too! In fact, we are no strangers to the Simba mattress as my son is sleeping on one too.
As the weather is turning warmer now, it is time to ditch the thick duvet and welcome the cooling duvet! This cooling duvet uses Japanese Arc-Chill cool technology Q-Max 0.5 cooling fibre that absorbs body heat and reduces skin temperature by 2 to 5 degrees.
It has been a tough Winter but Spring has finally arrived. Now it is time to ditch the thick duvet and welcome the cooling blanket! This Elegear cooling blanket has come just in time for this season. This cleverly reversible design blanket is made with two different kinds of materials for all seasons. On one side, it is made from 100% cotton for spring and autumn use which keeps you warm and cosy, while the other side is made of Japanese cooling fibre to stay cool on our hot summer nights.
Winter is fast coming to an end, and this means that it is nearly time to spend more of an active approach to the tasks that your garden needs. Your garden can get a little forgotten about during the cooler months and this leads to an array of different tasks to complete. Now that the weather is starting to shift into the spring months, it’s time to start putting a plan into place ready to have your garden work in full swing by the time it arrives.
I’m taking part in the Garden Goals challenge with Homebase and Mumsnet. This is my second post for the ‘add colour to my garden’ project. Today, I would like to show you what I have done for the three different tasks that we had set out.
As I had mentioned on my first post, I’ve not been happy with my garden since all my lavender plants in my back garden died two years ago. I wanted to create a new border and inject some colour into my garden with plants and shrubs.
I want to add colour to my garden! I am so pleased to take part in Homebase’s Garden Goals challenge where I need to complete two tasks! First is to write about why I am adding colour to my very dull garden and tell you what I am going to do about it. My second post is to show you the transformation I have made using the Homebase’s Garden Goals instructions.
As spring draws nearer, it will soon be time to pack away those thick winter coats and to get out our spring dresses and heels out of the wardrobe. It is also a good time to keep your wardrobe up to date with this season’s latest trends and styles from JD Williams’ new collection.
Have you heard that Beefeater have a new spring menu? Yes, now they have added freshly prepared dishes like Surf and Turf, Smoked Salmon On Toast, Spicy Chicken Wings, lighter options and many more. Also, there are Mr Men inspired favourites for the kids menu too. Do check out your local Beefeater for opening hours and offers from their website.
Yesterday, we went to our Ladybridge Beefeater for a meal. The place is very easy to access with a lot of parking and next to shopping areas with shops like Boots, Matalan, Mark & Spencer, Toy R Us etc. It is situated next to Premier Inn with free WIFI. When we arrived, we were shown to our table quickly and both children were given Mr Men colouring sheets.
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Having looked through their website, their flowers are very affordable and elegant. Besides ordering flowers for your loved ones, you could also add a box of chocolates , a card, vase, teddy bear, ribbon, flower food and even wine on top of that! I love the convenience of having one site to be able to send flowers internationally, especially as my family and friends are all over the world!
Crafts are always a great way to entertain a bunch of children especially during a party. We often find that whenever we have friends and their children over, our home quickly becomes a madhouse especially with our children as ringleaders. So by giving them something to do like group activities, it helps to ease the noise and mess in the house.
Baker Ross have recently sent me their new summer crafts collections which include the Sealife decoration Sewing Kits, Monster Scratch Art Magnets, Mermaid Weaving Bookmark Kits, Ceramic Gnomes, Coloured Sequins and many more.
Each kit is well packed and they are also great for party bags. They are very well priced and great value. The kits are easy to follow and make. They are always of good quality and come with full instructions.
Last week, we had a birthday party. The children started playing with the action figures and created a battlefield in the kitchen. To clear them off, I gave each child a craft kit to do with their parents. They were all very pleased doing it.
The monster scratch art magnets were a big hit. They all love to scratch and made funny designs on their monsters.
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Clean mud is also known as Ghost mud which is commonly used for sensory activity. It smells fantastic. How did it get its name? Well, I heard from friend that it originated from prison which I can understand why. In prison, the one things that they allow in their cell are soap, toilet paper and water! They must have been bored with time to kill and invented this clean mud to play in their cells! Clean mud feels like Play Doh but it is very wet and slippery!
This coming Mother’s day (15th March 2015), why not try to make a home-made card with your children. It is fun and also a lovely personal touch. Last week, while I was tidying my drawer I found an old magazine (Practical Parenting & Pregnancy) from March 2013. Flipping through the magazine, I found this Let’s Make section where they show how to make a tulip card. This craft idea is from Little Children’s Book of Things to Do from Usborne.
If you have been following my series of Chinese New Year blog posts, you may have seen that I mentioned Spring cleaning. We have to clean the house before the New Year to wash away the bad luck and welcome good fortune into our home. There is one traditional that I still believe in which is we are not suppose to sweep/mop/clean the floor during Chinese New Year day as it will sweep away all the good fortune. So if you happen to drop/smash something, remember to say 歲歲平安 (Suì suì píng ān) immediately, which means “everlasting peace year after year”.
Mandarin oranges play a major part in our Chinese New Year. It’s to do with way we pronounce the word, it sounds like fortune. Chinese people love to say only good words on Chinese New Year as it will bring them all the luck and fortune for the coming new year.
