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Pretending to be grown up, married and parenting two children... but I'm still Nunn the Wiser

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Roald Dahl Birthday Party

September 24, 2019 by NunntheWiser
Willy Wonka golden ticket

It has been about a million years since I last hammered out a blog. “When will you write a new one?” shouted literally nobody. Well you’re in luck. Here we go. I decided to take the summer off to “be more present” with the children, which mostly involved scouring Netflix to find something they would … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Food Tagged: charlie and the chocolate factory party, frobscottle, george's marvellous medicine, golden ticket, golden ticket party invitation, matilda birthday cake, matilda cake, matilda party, roald dahl, roald dahl birthday party, roald dahl themed birthday party

Let’s Cook the Books: A Series of Unfortunate Events – The Reptile Room

May 21, 2019 by NunntheWiser
Series of Unfortunate Events Reptile Room

When the Baudelaire orphans arrive at Uncle Monty’s house, we’re unsure what to think of him. After all, this is A Series of Unfortunate Events, where we are promised that only dreadfully unpleasant things will happen to our heroines and hero. What fate awaits them in Uncle Monty’s Reptile Room? If you are in any … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Family, Food Tagged: books, cake, coconut layer cake, cook the books, cooking with children, lemony snicket, lets cook the books, reading, series of unfortunate events, series of unfortunate events the reptile room

Taking Tablets

May 9, 2019 by NunntheWiser

For the last nine million years, or however long it is we’ve had children, TheBloke (TM) and I have alternated weekend lie-ins. I get a lie-in on the Saturday, TheBloke (TM) takes the Sunday. For those of you without children, “lie-in” here is a figurative concept, lasting no longer than 8.15 a.m., otherwise there will … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Food Tagged: breakfast, lie in, mornings with children, tablets, weekends

Chinese Ginger and Garlic Beef

March 28, 2019 by NunntheWiser

I love cooking. It was something I came to a bit later in life; I lived by myself for most of my 20s, and dinner was often at a restaurant, or a ready meal, or an omelette before heading out to a gig. Then, once I had met TheBloke (TM), he did most of the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Food Tagged: alexa, beef, chinese ginger garlic beef, cooking for families, dinner, food, gadgets, instant pot, meatmatters

Let’s Cook the Books: Sam’s Sandwich

February 26, 2019 by NunntheWiser

Sam’s Sandwich was a gift from my friend Nice Kate, to my children, and quickly became a firm favourite. Nice Kate had been astonished I’d never heard of the tome, and so swiftly purchased it for my children, introducing them to some funny rhymes, cheeky characters, and the idea of putting insects in their sibling’s dinner. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Food Tagged: cooking with children, david pelham, EldestGirl, lets cook the books, reading with children, salami, sam's sandwich, sandwich

Let’s Cook the Books: Nuddy Ned

January 28, 2019 by NunntheWiser

My children’s love of Nuddy Ned can be blamed squarely on my parents. When EldestGirl was about three years old, she went to stay with Grandma and Grandad, and they took her to the library and brought back a copy of Nuddy Ned. My parents – clearly with the same sense of humour as an average three … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Food Tagged: cook the books, cooking with children, homemade pizza, homemade pizza recipe, lets cook the books, making pizza with children, nuddy ned, pizzas

Let’s Cook the Books – The Magic Faraway Tree

November 30, 2018 by NunntheWiser
homemade toffee final product

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton was one of the first chapter books EldestGirl and I read together. I had loved it as a child, and remember playing for hours, imagining I had my own slippery slip to slide down a giant tree. Unfortunately, my parents lived in a new-build in the Midlands, so … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Family, Food Tagged: cooking with children, enid blyton, faraway tree, golden syrup, lets cook the books, magic faraway tree, making toffee, moon face, moonface, thorntons, toffee

Let’s Cook the Books – A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

October 9, 2018 by NunntheWiser

Every night we read a chapter or two of a book to EldestGirl. Her taste in fiction moved really swiftly from picture books to really quite complicated chapter books. She did baulk at The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe being read to her. I think it was just a bit too involved in terms of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Family, Food Tagged: books, cooking with children, count olaf, lemony snicket, lets cook the books, orphans, puttanesca, series of unfortunate events, series of unfortunate events the bad beginning, sunny, the bad beginning, violet

Let’s Cook the Books – The Cat and the King

August 25, 2018 by NunntheWiser
EldestGirl adds sugar

About a year ago, a few months before she turned five, EldestGirl started to prefer chapter books to picture books. She was still reading picture books by herself, but at bedtime when we read to her, she liked to be read chapter books. Over the last twelve months we have raced through so many I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Food Tagged: books, cat and the king, chapter books, childrens books, cooking, cooking fiction, cooking with children, food, lets cook the books, nick sharratt, royal shortbread, shortbread, the cat and the king

Half-term Horizon

June 7, 2018 by NunntheWiser

Honestly, half term sort of snuck up on me. I was aware there was a bank holiday, and that looming at some point, there would be a half term, but I hadn’t properly, properly realised it was here until… it was here. We had planned… nothing. Shit. I desperately tried to overcompensate. Day One We made cornflour … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Food, school Tagged: baking, baking with children, challah bread, chocolate challah bread, cornflour goop, EldestGirl, half term, painting, pottery, pottery painting with children, swimming, swimming with children, when will half term be over, YoungestGirl
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