This morning myself & Littlepixie attempted the mammoth task of restoring my desk area to normality again now that the gnomes are all finished We had a massive stack of felt scraps to deal with, they were too small to be useful and the pile was too...

The HPP household is now hooked on Klean Kanteens, our tap water tastes just staggeringly wonderful out of them, and our tap water is normally pretty yuck, so that’s saying something. Mr.HPP’s new Kanteen arrived today and, good wife that I am, I...

One of the quite splendid benefits of being a mammy is that Santa automagically adds you to the nice list. You see, we mammies are such a hard-working, self-sacrificing lot that we are above mere “naughty or nice” labels, so Santa, recognising this,...

Tomorrow is December and I will soon be shutting up Little Pixie Shoppe for at least a month, probably more. Littlepixie no longer naps so my sewing time is greatly reduced, but I’m very proud of her, she’s getting so big!! So I have decided to wrap up...

An accidental waaaay over-ordering of courgettes from Tesco’s (I asked for 4 courgettes, not realising that I had asked for 4 multipacks!) followed by the arrival of more courgettes the following day in our vegbox prompted me to hunt out the recipe I...