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Food in France
We eat a mostly plant based diet, with one eggseption. We do not eat meat or dairy, having cut these out for our whole family over...
A Winter Christmas
Or… a guilt-free Christmas! There’s nothing like a fuzzy Christmas jumper to hide the multiple glasses of eggnog and a huge Christ...
Colne Grand Prix
Colne is usually a twenty minute drive from Burnley, heading North (I think) on the M65. As we approach the off ramp to Colne at ...
Profitez bien de ces moments de famille
At the beginning of winter when the geese said goodbye to their French summer and flew south for the winter, it was a truly depres...
A Woke Lullaby – Saying Goodnight to Consumerism....
It’s sometimes hard to teach our children the littlest things. Teaching them important life lessons is harder. Hardest of all is h...
HD is for Artists. I Take Photos for the Memories.
I’ve never thought “oh man if only there were more pixels in this image”, “why is the colour not true to life?!” “Oh the hue-manit...
Haunted Playground
Child's eye view of the pandemic is thought provoking piece written by Burnley schoolboy
To Live is to Dream
When we set out on our house-hunting expedition, outwardly I was open-minded but inside, all I wanted was a Maison de Maître. Unbe...
Just another 'Swanny' Day
It's mid February, and this time last year we were up to our armpits in snow from the 'Beast from the East'. Quite a surprise then...
Aah yeah - K F C!
Copycat KFC? Is the “leaked” recipe the real deal? We put the recipe from the now famous Chicago Tribune article to the test - and...