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03/01/2025

smol unboxing!

03/01/2025

Friday’s coffee & chat

03/01/2025

Thanks English Heritage for this info on Candlemas!

If you’re not in the mood to take your decorations down you can leave them up until February 2nd!

“Evidence that decorations were kept up until the evening before Candlemas is well documented. To this day, Christmas cribs remain in place in many churches until Candlemas, and their removal is described in an early 17th-century poem:

Ceremony Upon Candlemas Eve, Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Down with the rosemary, and so

Down with the bays and misletoe;

Down with the holly, ivy, all

Wherewith ye dress’d the Christmas hall;

That so the superstitious find

No one least branch there left behind;

For look, how many leaves there be

Neglected there, maids, trust to me,

So many goblins you shall see.”

01/01/2025

Do you agree?!🤔

Catching up with last night’s festivities and I felt a bit sad seeing this?!
What’s wrong with just ‘being in the moment’ without the need to view the whole thing through your phone?

Edit to add my opinion: I get that you want to capture the moment, but don’t let the details of the experience of the ‘moment’ pass you by ‘cos you’re too busy recording? There is taking it too far, having said that, I was soo ‘enjoying the moment’ on Christmas Day (phone was in other room) that I actually forgot to take many of family!

01/01/2025

😂What’s occurring here?!
Somewhere you can prepare your Sunday roast?!

01/01/2025

✋🏻I’m not into that ‘New year, new me’!
☝🏻It’s not just one day! It’s not just one big change/resolution!
🙌🏻It’s lots of little changes/choices that we make daily!
🫶🏻We’ve got this!

If you’d like support to navigate 2025 and join my private Facebook group, here’s where to sign up and pay:
https://buy.stripe.com/6oE4hC6oMh1P2R200t

And THEN search for El’s Belles and request to join🥰

01/01/2025

Happy 2025! Wednesday’s Whatever Wednesday!

31/12/2024

As New Year’s Day falls on a Wednesday I’ll be busy during the day but thought I could still come LIVE at 6am (yes I’ve set my alarm!😂)
Hope to see you there? Will I be hung over, join me to find out?!😜🥂

31/12/2024

🥂Happy New Year!🥂
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Happy Hogmanay!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Who does first footing on New Year’s Eve?

What is first footing?
The tradition of ‘First Footing’ goes back to the 8th or 9th century! A Scottish belief that the coming year’s household’s luck or misfortune can be determined by who ‘first foots’ across the threshold first in the New Year! Tradition states that good luck can be ensured if the first person through the door is tall, dark and male! Made even better, if that person brings any of the following gifts:
*I knew about some of these but some are new to me!

🥖 Bread: for satiety
🔥 Coal: for warmth
🪙 Silver coin: for prosperity
🌲 Evergreen: for long life
🧂 Salt: for flavour
🥃 Whisky: for good cheer
🕯️ Match: for light
🪵Rowan twig: to burn off negativity

🥰I have fond memories of my Dad going outside just before midnight with bread, coal and silver coin!

So guess what Mark will be doing?!😘

30/12/2024

Monday’s 6am LIVE

25/12/2024

🎄Merry Christmas!!! 1hr Christmas Special!🎄

24/12/2024

Christmas doesn’t have to be perfect! A message to overwhelmed parents who over think things especially on Christmas Eve!

Christmas doesn’t have to be perfect for your children to have the best time!
The mince pies don’t have to be homemade, presents don’t have to be wrapped with bows, ribbons (they just get torn off by the kiddies) stuffing doesn’t have to be made from scratch, roast potatoes don’t have to be Jamie Oliver’s recipe and cooked in duck fat and the Christmas cake, oh the Christmas cake! Honestly let it go! Shop bought, homemade, don’t fret about it and if your 10 year old asks to help decorate the Christmas cake that you’ve been putting off for weeks ‘cos you wanted it to be perfect and never felt ‘in the mood to do it’, say yes!!
Say yes to the mess!
Say yes to the uneven icing, the wonky design...you’ll be so pleased you did, because what your children will remember and hold in their memories is that you allowed them to feel all grown up at icing the cake, rolling it out, cutting out the holly decorations and being allowed total freedom to decorating the cake without any of your Mummy meltdown moments, they’ll remember the family time, the love, laughter at playing silly games!
Christmas doesn’t have to look Instagram worthy, absolute perfection, so don’t strive for it to be so! So God bless this mess!
Take a moment to breathe, put down the phone (unless taking a photo) take in the scene, really look, hug lots, laugh more and kiss often (even with absence of mistletoe) make the most of this year, a more relaxed and quiet year!
Merry Christmas, here’s to next year, with everything crossed, will be back to the hectic, full on family mayhem!

So here’s this year’s Christmas cake, that I’m actually dead chuffed with, because, for once, I relaxed and let go of control and realised Christmas doesn’t have to be perfect!

23/12/2024

If you’ve watched the LIVE I did last year making this, (the one where Sherry was involved?!😂)this is the recipe, which can be made last minute!

If not using protein or collagen powder just increase the breadcrumbs by 60g!

Great Great Gran Bott's Plum Pudding

Ingredients:
230gBreadcrumbs
113g Raisins
113g Sultanas
113g Currants
84g Suet
30g Peel (I doubled it!)
2 Eggs
220g Brown sugar
100ml Brandy
1 tsp Ground Spice (I doubled it!)

Method:
Combine ingredients, place into a pudding bowl and steam on low for 6 hours.

Macros:
(Per gram)
3 kcals for gram
Carbs 0.5g
Fat 0.1g
Protein 0.1g
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23/12/2024

Sharing this Festive El LIVE, making Great Great Gran Bott’s Plum pudding recipe (not too late to make this one!)
Enjoy! Hic! 🍷I maybe ever so slightly tipsy-too funny! 😂

23/12/2024

Monday’s 6am LIVE?!

22/12/2024

You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf, so…😂

22/12/2024

Who knew!

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