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Halloween Crafts with Kids

Halloween is a big deal in our house. We’ve already been out to the fun (if extortionate) pumpkin fields in Leeds again this year, so the kids are well set with giant pumpkins. They’ve been busy planning their designs, which are worryingly elaborate so we’ll have to see how they pan out… I think Halloween […]

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Pumpkin Pastel de Nata Recipe

These sweet treats are a perfect autumn pick me up to have with a cup of coffee.

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Pick Your Own Pumpkin this Halloween

My two younglings loved spending time in the sunshine, trekking through muddy fields and finding their favourite pumpkins to take home.

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Halloween Trail at Hollybush, Leeds

There are ponds, trees, fairy houses, bee hives, exciting doorways, vegetable patches, a Halloween scarecrow, and so much more. It’s a really magical place.

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Fiendish Feasting at Halloween

I absolutely love Halloween. It is such a fun festival, steeped in other worldly mystery and magic. Sadly, Mr M is away for the day itself this year, which is most upsetting! But a good excuse to celebrate Halloween all week long. Last weekend, our friends The Saints came over with their little one for […]

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Hallowe’en Tomfoolery

We had another great Hallowe’en this year, and absolutely loads of trick or treaters. Some are beginning to get a quite high tech – there were spinning green lights and all sorts! It’s great that they put the effort in and get into the spirit of it all (haaaa) and we did have the classics […]

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Something wicked this way comes

Mr M and I tend to get rather overexcited about Hallowe’en, so we’re looking forward to next weekend. We’ve already got the decorations down from the attic and will probably spend a ridiculous amount of time making our living room into some sort of spooky Dracula-style cave dwelling, as we do each Hallowe’en. A bit […]