While Heston Blumenthal fannys about trying to make a bacon flavoured stegosaurus out of yogurt and breadsticks the rest of us have more basic food based challenges. Like feeding toddlers – or even harder – getting my Dad to eat a vegetarian dish without him making a joke about it lacking a bit of sausage. ( […]
Do you wanna throw a Frozen themed party? It doesn’t have to be a very good Frozen themed party. Here’s my guide…. My daughter has seen an amazing Frozen cake on Facebook. Awesome. Except the lady who made it lives in California. I have looked into shipping and is not going to work. I’ve already […]
Waiter: Welcome to Don’t Want That! Have you refused to eat our food before? Diner: No this is our first visit. Waiter: OK here are your plastic ponchos, the showers are through the door on the left. Today we have a choice of blue, pink or yellow plates. Special of the day is […]
If you are a woman of a certain age without children you will regularly be asked whether you want to have them. There is only one way to avoid this and that is to go ahead and have children. Admittedly this is not an ideal start to a family. Child: Mummy why did you have a […]
Bonjour mes amis! Ca va? Bugger I can’t get the funny sign thing* under the C so now it looks like I’m offering you a glass of Cava, which I’m not. I was going to write this post in French but to be honest although I have a degree in it, my written French is pretty […]
This is officially ‘the best tea ever’ my daughter said so and she is always right. Apart from when she tells me she can’t tidy her room because there are crocodiles asleep in her bed. I love making this because it’s dead easy, it’s got healthy stuff in it and my children eat it. Hallelujah! I mean actually eat it. They don’t […]
This has been sitting unpublished for over a year: If you’re reading this expecting the usual light hearted look at the world of parenting small children then click here and go watch a monkey riding a pig instead. Also if you are still recovering from a miscarriage please get off the Internet now. Google is […]
As any parent knows children come in two varieties. Children who wear hats and children who point blank refuse to have anything to do with hats. Once it turns sunny hat hating children will scream as though they are being attacked by killer bees any time a sun hat is within 5 metres of them. […]
Seriously Father’s Day – what’s that all about? Before you get all upset and point out how important fathers are I’m not ungrateful for all the support and I totally understand the point of it regarding my own Dad. It’s the present buying I have an issue with. Men are hard enough to buy presents […]
I’ve been wanting to do a recipe on the blog for ages. But I wanted it to be something I actually made and ate with the children – y’know so I could show you all how easy it is to cook nice things and supervise toddlers. Really, I thought, how hard can it be? Let me tell you […]
