History Through Travel Is Connecting Us As A Family

I have been thinking about our holidays as a family and I defiantly notice a pattern which has defiantly I think has had an impact on the choice of degree that my son has chosen up at  York University. He is studying Archaeology with Bachelor of Science and I joke to him that he is not as qualified as me yet even though he says he is ( he isn't ). Travel plays a big part in our family life and we have had many a exotic holiday ( no we haven't been to the Carribean or Mauritius as of yet ) but we do like Travel that has a historical twang to it.

In the summer we went to Rome for the week and it was somewhere we had always wanted to go as a family, previous years have included ,Egypt,Holland,Spain etc. Never one to shy away from a Location I go full throttle into looking and investigating where we are going , we are not actually a beach holiday family. we have been on holidays where there is a beach and we do go and relax for a bit on them but we always find ourselves going off and exploring our surroundings.

History through travelis connecting us as a family as it was this summer that we went to Rome just before the teen went off to study Archaeology and guess what he is back this Friday. OOOH excitement that reminds me to sort out his room as I have been using it as a storage facility and my storing the tuff has made the rest of the house look tidy. But he will be back on Friday lovingly clogging up the house with all his clobber.

Going off topic a bit I have found him going away bit hard this was coupled with losing the teaching assistant side of my job it was a double blow and I have had a hard very hard time adjusting to all that has gone off. It is a sort of grief I think a different sort of grief but a grief none the less , I dislike change and when it happens it really does rock my world.

Travel is my sanctuary and how we love it so as family and this Christmas we are off to Venice and I think it going to be magical we seem to be loving Italy so much having been bitten by the romance of it in Rome.

Ever Had One Of Those Weeks?

Every had one of those weeks where if it can go wrong it will go wrong well that’s been my week everything from socks to Avocados and everything in between ...

Arggggh

On the first day of Christmas my socks developed a hole in I shrugged this off as a Christmas omen I mean it wouldn’t continue to go wrong would it now ? Granted I had been wearing the socks all year but surely Father Christmas socks are immortal ( I think socks should be immortal ) . There is nothing more devastating than getting a hole in your socks it is like a knife to the heart.

And then on the second day of Christmas I brought a pack of 2 Avocados for Guacamole it was a let's have Mexican sort of day , I mean you can not go wrong with a Mexican . Mexican food is simple uncomplicated and tasty and you won't normally beat yourself up in to a lather over it that is until you come up across a hard Avocado. The first Avocado was fine as I prepared it for the Guacamole I like Guacamole it's nice its fun its tasty and I wanted it.Then the second Avocado that was the straw that broke the camels back.

On the fifth day of Christmas my son still hadn’t recovered from his flu so we had to cancel my birthday dinner at the rather nice bistro pub , I mean who wants a steak dinner anyway.When instead you can have birthday fish fingers in a baguette , I tell you it’s the height of luxury here.

Update on the breaking of the camals back well that would be the nearly 400 cans of Pepsi max I ordered by accident.Well I ordered a great deal of 48 cans for £8 and then some I did over order with the edition of editing my basket but I forgot to edit my basket .This resulted in a very confused delivery man taking shed loads of Pepsi max back.

Christmas Gift Guide For My Cat

I never thought I would ever be contemplating a gift guide for a cat ( a four legged whirlwind of destruction)

Currently I am tidying up after my cat ( again as the static from it's tail has attracted all the straw type packaging and every surface it brushes up against it is leaving a trail of mess everywhere)

Any gift guide for a cat has to include the box in which the item you've actually brought for your cat as cats and boxes are to coin a phrase


 "Tail as old as time  "

As much as boxes are fun I can’t boxes forever in my house although the other day I stopped my husband throwing away a box a cat liked ....

“The cat will be so sad if you throw look at his face he’s got tears in his eyes “

Possibly a overreaction on the part of my cat but you know there’s one diva in each family I think and that’s my cat he is such a drama llama. You can buy stuff for your cat but in your heart of hearts you know full well that they’re just going to sit in the box in which the item came but when your cat is bored of a box then I reccomdnd the Kickaroo which will send them loopy loo with delight and will delight for ages.

Roast Potatoes Chilli Shallots

Today in Claire’s kamikaze cooks we have Chilli shallot potatoes which is as easy as a penguin in a freezer.

Ingredients 

Shallots as many as you want ( did you know 3 shallot count as one of your 5 a day )

Crushed dried chilles as many you can handle 

Sliced potatoes 

Olive oil 2 tablespoon s or a little less

Method 

Preheat the oven to 200 c or thereabouts 

Slice the potatoes and par boil them or whack them in the microwave for a minute or 3

Mixed the crushed chilliest with the olive oil 

Peel the shallot s and roughly chop them 

Toss the shallots potatoes and olive oil in a oven dish making sure everything is covered and leave to cook for about 30 minutes.

Perfect with Gammon which is what I served it with ...

Owning A Cat Is The Biggest Inconvenience To My Life

Owning a cat is the biggest inconvenience to my life , it nags me for food , stalks me for ice cream and cake and stops me watching television amongest things.

You go into the kitchen to make a cup of tea and you discover that it has taken the kitchen roll like a zebra on the Serengeti, once  a rare and noble kitchen roll its hopes and dreams lay shredded on the kitchen floor.

Literally I’ve just had to step over my cat as it was watching me eat my tea at the table it just flops down and plays dead ....

But you know what owning a cat may be the biggest inconvenience in my life but you know what it is really one of the best. For saying I’m allergic to cats you would I’d avoid them but I’m a slave to their fluffiness domination. I’ve a little bit of a cat immunity as I grew up with cats , you see how cats plant themselves into your lives that is why I think cats really are trying to take over the world.