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I make a big batch of these Christmas Biscuits every year for family and friends to scoff with a cuppa when they stop by over Christmas – but I get bored of making the same sugar cookies, so this year, I decided to fiddle around with the base recipe and come up with a few alternative flavours including Cinnamon, Maple and Pecan and – my personal favourite – Pistachio. Yum! 🙂
Can you believe that it’ll be Christmas Eve this time next week!? Crazy! How many Christmas Parties have you been to so far? If you haven’t, then I’ll bet you’ve got one coming up this week. Or are you hosting one yourself? If so, then this post’s for you. Hosting at Christmas is one of my favourite things to do (I love planning and organising around Christmas more than any other time of year), but it can also be really stressful (in fact, I wrote a whole post about it here). So here’s my ten step guide to hosting a banging Christmas Party.
I’m no sports nut. I mean, rugby is totally the exception and you’ll catch me cheering the boys on come 6 Nations time just like any other Welsh gal. But everything else? Ugh. And don’t feed me that, “Oh, but it’s so much better watching it live and in person than on the TV” line. […]
What do you eat for breakfast on Christmas Day? Well, for starters, is there even time? I mean, do you shove down a couple of slices of toast and a cuppa before the kids come stampeding into the bedroom with their stockings? Do you just skip it and starve yourself knowing that you’ll be cradling a turkey-sized food baby in a few hours time? Or, do you put away the Terry’s Chocolate Orange from the bottom of your stocking whilst parked in front of The Life of Brian…
Do I really need yet another book on women’s history? I’ve got a whole shelf sagging full of them at home; from Hypatia to Mary Queen of Scots, you name it, I’ve probably got it. So do I really need yet another one? Yes. Yes I do. Always. Because just when I think I’ve read about every Warrior Queen and babein brainbox from the annals, I pick up another book and discover ten, twenty, thirty more inspiring women that I’ve never heard about.
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