Do you love cookies? Of course, you do. Who doesn't? Delicious, soft double chocolate cookies are my favourite! I can't make a cake to save my life (unlike my wife over at Scrummy Crumb) but I must admit that I make a mean cookie. Check these bad boys out. Double chocolate cookies just out of the oven The recipe is really straight forward. These cookies are suitable for vegans so when I say "butter" I do mean a dairy-free butter. You can obviously use standard butter if you don't want to use a dairy-free version. To make these delicious cookies you will need: 100g  (1/2 cup) W ..read more

If you've been to your local supermarket recently you've probably noticed a distinct lack of Poo paper. this is down to a large portion of humanity showing how utterly moronic they are. We have just gone into a second lockdown. A. Second. Lockdown. Meaning, we've already gone through one. Meaning, we know what to expect. The country didn't run out of toilet paper then, even though people were buying massive amounts so we won't run out now. Your posterior will still remain clean if you just buy the normal amount.  However, should the nightmare scenario actually happen, where we run out o ..read more

Youtube is one of the social media platforms that I don't really dabble in. I'm not one for being on camera. I have a boring voice and really don't have enough confidence to make a video that people will enjoy, at least not one with me in it. I do have a Youtube Chanel called One Hull Of A Family, we mainly use it to post videos of any days out we might have. As Youtube is not something we push I wanted to ask someone who I knew enjoys making videos. I decided to ask Chandru, a quality fella I have met over on Twitter. We've chatted in the past about social media and how hard it can be to gro ..read more

10.8 weeks. 76 days. 1824 hours. 109,440 minutes. That's how long I have been furloughed from work due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tomorrow I go back to work and I feel more sad than happy. I thought I would be really excited to get back to work, get back to some kind of normality, and start earning my full wage again.  But... I've had 76 full days with my children. Sure, they drive me crazy sometimes but this is the most time I have ever spent with them. Even when they were born I only got 2 weeks with each of them. now I've had almost 11 weeks off work and I've been able to watch m ..read more

Today we were heading back to Hollywood Studios so Joseph could go build a droid at the Droid Depot in Galaxy's Edge. He had asked when he was going to go and build one about 569,784,557 times in the first 6 days so we had to go today, just for our own sanity. Including tax, the droid cost $106. We didn't wait too long in the queue but as we didn't book to build the droid we couldn't just walk in. It still wasn't a long wait but at busier times of the year, I would definitely suggest booking online to save waiting. The whole process from choosing your droid pieces to building it really d ..read more

On day 6 we decided that we could go to a few shops to try and get some bargains. I love shopping in America and we decided to go to the Orlando Premium Outlets on Vineland Ave. This place has tons of shops. I was hoping to get some decent trainers and hoped that I could get the Nike trainers I saw in the Lake Buena Vista Nike outlet. Before we went I checked out the Orlando Premium Outlets website and signed up. After I signed up I received a 25% off code for selected stores. Kerry's dad had asked us to get him a pair of Levi 501's whilst we were over there so we went to the Levi shop and ..read more

On Day 5 we headed to Epcot. It was absolutely boiling! Easily the hottest day so far. Epcot used to be one of my favourite parks but not so much anymore. Plus a lot of this park was closed as they were building new rides. We did, however, manage to meet quite a few characters in this park. After our photo with Mickey, we decided to leave the park and take the boat across to The Boardwalk which is a quarter-mile promenade of shops, a bakery and a club. On the opposite side, there is the Disney Beach Club resort which has the amazing Beaches and Cream ice cream shop. We ..read more

When will we get back to normal? What is normal? Emma, a fellow blogger asks this question in her latest post. These lockdown conditions for some people are a normal way of life. They're not normal for me, though. It's been 8 weeks since I was furloughed from work. The longest time I've ever been off work. I do miss going to work, I miss getting paid 100% of my wage more. I miss going to town on my days off and wasting money. I miss going to the pub with my mates, even though that is only once a month. Being told we cannot see our families or friends is the worst part of this whole lockdo ..read more

Here we have a Guest Post from the guys over at Ninja Dads. Enjoy. I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, the men in my life provided sage wisdom. Whether it was my grandfather, father, neighbor, or even my first boss, they always had some quip or short saying that really summed up a life lesson. A couple of examples include, “don’t pee into the wind,” or “treat others the way you want to be treated.” Even as an adult, I find myself pondering some of the meaning of the story that triggered the saying. However, as a dad, I find I rarely say anything other than bullshit common sense s ..read more

The Lockdown is almost in its 6th week now. For most of us, this has meant being at home with our families as we are unable to work. For me, this is the longest I have ever been out of work. Thankfully (currently) I have a job to go back to when the lockdown restrictions are lifted. I thought the weeks would drag but surprisingly they have gone quite quickly. That might be because our kids are going to bed later because they aren't at school which means I am going to bed later and we are also waking up later. We haven't gotten up before 8:30am since this whole thing started! There will be ..read more