We tend to think of Christmas as the season of over-eating and over-spending but it’s also the season of over-buying, especially when it comes to food. In fact, we scrape the equivalent of 4.2 million extra Christmas dinners into the bin each festive season, including 740,000 Christmas puddings and 7.5 million mince pies, an Olympic-size ...
Why is the sky blue? Why is my friend allowed to eat Coco Pops and I’m not? How big was T-rex? Children are always asking questions, and while many can be handled with a surreptitious Google search, there will often be more challenging subjects to deal with that arise from life events. Parents may have ...
That bit in-between Christmas and New Year (‘Twixtmas? Is that what we’re supposed to be calling it now?) is always a bit odd isn’t it? The tree and the lights are still up, the dustbin is groaning, as are our belts, and thoughts are slowly turning towards the New Year.If we’re off work and the ...