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I think I'm the first - birthday party avoidance - I should be icing fairy cakes but instead, simple summer soup and yummy tomato tart

Made focaccia yesterday - 2 loaves gone in one afternoon! So tasty. jensfoodandphotos.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/focaccia.html

It's Mother's Day in America and nothing celebrates your Mom quite like telling the world wide web just how smokin' hot she is.

Have a good week, All.

A Silent Sunday from me

Recipe Junkie please can you turn the URL/name option on in your comments? Pleeeeease!

Is the concept of the Aspergers genius a myth?

autisticson.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/polar-opposites/

Expat I love it! And Black...yummy.

One from me on surviving the seventh circle of hell

L is for (Astrid) Lindgren

Somehow Pippi Longstocking completly passed me by as a child, so I'm catching up now.

Oops meant to post it here...find out why Milly is singing the blues adventuresofmillyfriends.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/milly-sings-blues.html

Five hours - how do I do that? I didn't realise it wasn't on...

Ok I have delved into the settings on Blogger, and changed the comments setting so now anyone can comment - will I live to regret this? Hopefully that will allow you to comment with the URL?

RecipeJunkie
Here you go
Let me know when it needs testing!

wahey - nearly managed it all myself, but have added the comment moderation. thanks for the advice!

Hello all

one from me on discovering that, during all those years, we weren't alone after all

http://recipe-junkie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/bad-colds-and-birthday-parties.html bad colds and birthday parties.

By the way if you haven't read the posts about the latest Anne Summers campaign, I recommend them - there's a separate thread going, and some really good posts.

that should be bad colds and birthday parties - the hot toddy has kicked in. I'm off to bed now

A special bonus, totally parenting unrelated blog post just up, Making a Meal of it A most surreal meal.

My daughter was diagnosed with a dysmorphic syndrome, this is how I try and get people to look at the girl and not at the syndrome
www.suburbansuperwoman.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/you-are-beautiful-no-matter-what-they.html

My upcycling (!) of old curtains into a lovely, jubbly summer shopper bag :)

Hello, Wrote one this week about when your child shocks you (not in a good way) and how you respond- what you think versus what you say. Enjoy. When I Couldn't Fake a Mary Poppins.

The obvious choice for M in an A-Z of translated children's literature would be the Moomins, but I never liked them so I wrote about Miffy instead.

M is for...

Flubba - your link didn't work for me.

My day at Cybher

Yesterday was my Special Needs son's birthday tea..stressful. Anyhow after visiting the Harry Potter Studio Tour the other week we decided to attempt our own Butterbeer for Meltdown Moo's party.

Want to know how it tasted and how to make your own? Read on:)

Another one about blood donation and how, a year on from the news about it, I have only just heard about the potential privatision of the blood bank system.

I'm trying to spread the word about D-Mer, or the negative emotions experienced by many mothers when breastfeeding their infants. It's an actual physiological response, but relatively unknown. As a result many women (including myself) don't talk about it and end up feeling guilty for having such a strong, if brief, negative emotion about their infant.

I finally got round to posting about how my class got on with sewing purses and wallets for DT