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After Eights (along with Baileys, Advocaat and Chocolate Oranges) are things that I only really buy at Christmas so when I was trying to think of what I would use to make some Christmassy cupcakes, I decided to go with After Eight themed cakes.
I bought the supermarket’s own make though as I didn’t know how they’d turn out and I would have been gutted if they’d turned out wrong and I’d wasted a whole pack of After Eights!  They were only 99p and to be honest they tasted exactly the same as...

Every year when we unpack the Christmas tree decorations we seem to have about twice as much as we remember packing away.
We had so much last year that we decided to be ruthless and not use everything we had otherwise the downstairs of our house would have closely resembled a Santa’s grotto for the month of December...

Have you ever heard of Portable North Pole?
If you haven’t then you’re in for a treat this Christmas.  Guaranteed!
Portable North Pole helps you to make a video from Santa personalised for you children and considering it’s a free service, the quality of the video and the level of personalisation is excellent.  It only takes about five minutes to upload a photo of...

It really is that time of year again.
Summer’s over, the kids are back at school, X Factor’s back on the TV and the C word is starting to come up in the conversations all around me more and more.
Which can only mean one thing!