Home-Made Chicken and Leek Pie

A quick and simple home-made chicken and leek pie recipe. Once made it can then be served with chips, or potatoes and vegetables for a healthier option. Our younger teens have cooked this by themselves and it is perfect for DofE skills section if they chose cooking. This recipe is from The Wiggly Worm Charity. … Read more

Swim Serpentine 2022 Important Announcement

As Swim Serpentine is in Hyde Park, one of the Royal Parks, the weekend before Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, there was a lot of uncertainty about what would actually happen. Swim Serpentine Support Group The Facebook Swim Serpentine training group wouldn’t even allow any discussion about it whatsoever. It was meant to help … Read more

Alderton 5K Jeffing 90:30 Fast, Flat, Friendly

About Alderton 5K Run Alderton 5k Run is a Gloucestershire based fast, flat and super-friendly charity run. With 100% of the entry fees given to help the survival of Alderton Acorns Pre-school. Alderton 5K Course The Alderton 5K course is described as an out-and-back on picturesque voluntarily closed quiet roads from Alderton, past the hamlet of … Read more

Tips for Saving Money on Clothes

saving money on clothes by buying second hand

With the costing of living crisis most of us are having to tighten our belts. Therefore, we thought it was a good idea to look at where our money went. From this I have had a really good think about how we could be saving money on spending and generated these tips for saving money … Read more

Laundry Advice for University Freshers

It occurred to me that laundry advice for university Freshers would make a really useful post. This was after our teen who is off to University soon asked whether we thought it would be more cost effective just to buy new clothes than to use a launderette! This is an advertorial piece. Luckily for us … Read more