tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12338990851848388272024-03-14T10:28:10.928+00:00Beehive bits and piecesBumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-64616285862344617272021-04-04T19:55:00.000+01:002021-04-04T19:55:20.437+01:00What's it got to do with Easter? Part 7: Lambs What has it got to do with Easter? Part 7: LambsWhat did you eat this Easter Sunday? Roast lamb by any chance? The supermarkets have all their best lamb offers on at this time of year, and it’s a great time to eat what is a slightly more expensive roast dish. But what has it got to do with Easter? The tradition of lamb at Easter is probably the oldest of the traditions we have looked at in Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-31453152944282449712021-04-03T14:24:00.000+01:002021-04-03T14:24:07.673+01:00What's it got to do with Easter Part 6: Daffodils Spring flowering bulbs such as daffodils, lilies and tulips have become a symbol of the Resurrection throughout the Christian world. The daffodil has even been called the Easter Bell, or Lent Lily. Tradition has it that the daffodils open on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, and die on Easter Sunday, but this is mainly anecdotal, depending on when Easter falls. Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-29098006979532502892021-04-02T09:14:00.004+01:002021-04-02T09:14:57.236+01:00What's it got to do with Easter? Part 5: Good Friday It’s Good Friday. But what exactly is good about it? Well if you’re lucky, an extra day off work might make you think it’s pretty good, but when we think about what happened on good Friday, why on earth isn’t it called bad Friday, or black Friday? (and not the shopping type!). The Friday before Easter Sunday is the day on which Jesus was crucified. Falsely accused, given a sham Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-79629039359412143532021-04-01T19:47:00.001+01:002021-04-01T19:47:15.686+01:00What's it got to do with Easter? Part 4: Hot Cross BunsMy husband loves hot cross buns. Every year at the first sign of them in the supermarket we buy a few packs, ready to be replenished at every opportunity. There is something indulgent about a hot toasted bun with a good helping of butter. But what have they got to do with Easter? There are a variety of explanations for the origin of the hot cross bun. Some believe they have pagan origins, with Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-33833900552521504222021-03-31T17:00:00.001+01:002021-03-31T17:00:31.118+01:00What's it got to do with Easter? Part 3: Chocolate Which came first, the chocolate or the egg? Well in this case definitely the egg! Eggs had been used for hundreds of years as a symbol of Easter, starting out as real eggs, then being a paper mache shell in which you could hide a gift, and finally a confection. The first chocolate eggs appeared in France and Germany in the 19th Century, but they were bitter and hard. Cadbury’s Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-16856335938148201672021-03-30T15:39:00.003+01:002021-03-30T15:39:34.171+01:00What's it got to do with Easter? Part 2 -Eggs What's it got to do with Easter? Part 2: EggsA lot of us may associate eggs with Easter. Chocolate eggs, or decorated eggs, but where does the link between eggs and Easter originally come from? There are a couple of different theories depending on who you ask. Some will say eggs are the pagan symbol of fertility, and so in spring time, which falls around the same time as Easter, eggs were Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-65144530755574902392021-03-29T17:11:00.001+01:002021-03-29T17:21:13.950+01:00What's it got to do with Easter? Part 1: Bunnies I haven't posted here for such a long time, but I have thought a number of times I should come over. Not that I think anyone is particularly interested in what I have to say about anything, but on the off chance anyone is, I've decided to try and start posting again. My life has very few card making projects recently. In fact, most of my craft supplies are boxed up and in storage as we had Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-16314178154125838662017-03-27T19:17:00.001+01:002017-03-27T20:22:00.436+01:00Bible Journaling Colossians 3v12-14 with Free Traceable Template!
So this week I've been inspired by my quiet times to do an entry for Colossians 3v12-13.
12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselveswith compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-76731822288121871432017-03-21T14:15:00.001+00:002017-03-22T10:01:05.325+00:00Testing Supplies in My Journaling Bible
As I said in my last post I've been Bible Journaling every Sunday night since January, and wanted to start blogging about it too. I've given up Facebook for Lent, so have found myself with a little bit more time and am hoping to get some of my pages up on here soon, along with the process I used to create them. I'm hoping I can show people that it really isn't that daunting to get started, andBumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-7784917745278262102017-02-10T17:35:00.002+00:002017-02-10T17:36:19.551+00:00Long time...Wow, time really flies. I really can't believe its been almost two years since my last post! Rest assured I've not stopped crafting, but the time and inclination to blog just wasn't there. So what, may you ask, has changed?
Well for Christmas I got my first journalling bible, and I'm trying to do one page a week in it.
Here's the cover of my lovely Crossway journaling bible. Its a double column Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-26785889541132458202015-05-02T22:13:00.002+01:002015-05-02T23:11:26.092+01:00The day after the week beforeSo we made it. We lived for £1 each a day for 5 days. James has said he found it much easier this year because he didn't have a caffeine headache all week. We did have some food left over, which will not go to waste.
700g flour - 21p
approx 40 tea bags - 17p
4 packs of crisps - 22p
1 portion of pancake batter - 8p
2 Custard creams - 2p
3 slices of bread - 9p
1/3 of the squash - 14p
1/3 jar of Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-72467735673751285682015-05-01T23:00:00.002+01:002015-05-01T23:00:22.830+01:00Live Below the Line 2015 - Day 5!So as I write this I've just eaten my last bit of food for the day and will shortly be off to bed, and will wake up to many more options and choice in the food department. Today has been a great food day (we tend to keep the best until last in case morale is low!). Monkey started the day with Cocoa rice. He's been getting involved this week and helping weigh out the cereal and milk, which is not Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-86382819427989652122015-04-30T23:14:00.001+01:002015-04-30T23:14:51.274+01:00Live Below the Line 2015 - Day 4So Day 4, we're in the final stages of the challenge. Today I found it easier than yesterday. I didn't feel hungry this morning, but I was definitely ready when it was time for tea!
After school on Thursday I have my year 11s for revision, and always have lots of biscuits for them. I was telling them all about living below the line, and they were amazed that you could live on just £1 and were Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-48094448056211739092015-04-29T22:28:00.001+01:002015-04-30T23:15:05.067+01:00Live Below the Line 2015 - Day 3Sorry for the short and photo free post.
Today I've been busy at work, hardly having time to notice being hungry. I enjoyed my soup and bread for lunch and my crisps too. I didn't take my custard creams with me, so come 3 o'clock I was needing a cup of tea and a biscuit, neither of which I could have (I'd only brought one tea bag with me).
Tonight we were having the curry left from Monday, and Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-44192466979522029172015-04-28T22:31:00.000+01:002015-04-30T23:15:13.224+01:00Live Below the Line 2015 -Day 2Good Evening, I'll keep this short and sweet as I need to go to bed as I've had parents evening tonight, then marked books and I'm working tomorrow, so much sleep needed!
Today has been interesting. I've found it really hard resisting food we have in the house that isn't part of LBTL, so not allowed. I may have to hide completely all these things that are taunting me (ironically most stuff has Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-14364336362601231952015-04-27T22:31:00.000+01:002015-04-30T23:15:22.592+01:00Live Below the Line 2015 - Day 1Welcome to my posts about Live Below the Line 2015.
This is our 3rd year taking part, and just to change it up a bit we've altered the menu that we had the last 2 years. I took the obligatory photo of all our food and set about planning a menu for the 5 days.
Aldi
Mixed Veg 1kg
0.89
Quorn Pieces
1.48
Sausages x 20
0.99
Onions x8
0.59
Rice 1kg
Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-7081807282391086322014-11-09T15:30:00.002+00:002014-11-09T15:30:35.072+00:00I need a time turner!
If anyone invents one of these it will make them an instant millionaire!
For those not in the know, a time turner is a device from the Harry Potter films which Hermione uses to go to extra classes at school by turning back time and attending 2 classes at once! Its used to great effect in the 3rd film!
Anyhow, my life at the moment seems to jump from one thing to the next which just Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-73294269968615773452014-09-02T19:31:00.001+01:002014-09-02T19:31:23.018+01:00Wallace and Gromit Were-Rabbit Birthday CakeI have been terrible at updating my blog recently, but I needed to share this.
My lovely Monkey turned 5 recently, and he requested a Curse of the Were-rabbit cake, as he LOVES Wallace and Gromit. Now the only problem with 4/5 year olds, is that they believe that whatever they ask for can be magically created (and I always try my best to magically create!).
So here is the cake.
Gromit and Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-64663286420615822632014-05-04T15:46:00.001+01:002014-05-04T15:46:19.426+01:00Final day Living Below the LineYesterday was day 5 of Living of Below the Line.
Having been quite strict at the start of the 5 days we found we had a reasonable amount left to play around with. Now if you are very strict with the rules of Living Below the Line you should only have £1 worth of food each day. That means you can't eat 25p for first 4 days and then £4 on the last day. However, this wasn't an intentional thing, it Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-63118879323756273542014-05-02T22:03:00.003+01:002014-05-02T22:03:38.796+01:00Day 4 - The end is near-ishSo we're now on day 4 of Living Below the Line.
Today I wasn't particularly hungry, thankfully, but I'm still missing my cup of tea!
This morning when having cuddles with Monkey he told me in a sad voice "I missed turkey meatballs yesterday for dinner at school.". I explained that they would be on the menu again soon, but he seemed so disappointed. After 3 days straight of jam sandwiches for Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-38410999049809295352014-05-01T22:32:00.001+01:002014-05-01T22:32:13.690+01:003 is the magic number!So we're over half way through, and for me today has been the hardest day. By the end of my teaching day I was HUNGRY, I can't remember the last time I was actually hungry. When I got home I had a yogurt and 2 custard creams to put me on to dinner.
I was really looking forward to tonight's dinner, fried rice, one of my favourite dishes! I'd boiled the rice last night so it would be nicely Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-45703039300941636932014-04-30T22:53:00.001+01:002014-04-30T22:53:50.701+01:00Day Two - Living Below the LineA quick update for today.
Unfortunately Monkeys opinion of the cornflakes hadn't changed this morning, and so I offered him a yogurt for breakfast instead, which he enjoyed. Even though he had to have the same lunch as yesterday he didn't seem to mind, but I'm sure he'd grow tired very quickly of jam sandwiches every day!
This lunchtime I hosted a lovely Live Below the Line lunch at work, 14 ofBumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-49257587296241608072014-04-29T22:23:00.000+01:002014-04-29T22:23:26.137+01:00Day One doneSo we managed our first day of living on £1 each without too many hiccups.
The main issue we seem to have is that Monkey has deemed the own brand cornflakes a no go!
I chose the cornflakes over the porridge in the end as I thought it would be better for him, but apparently not.
This could be an issue, but I'll try him again tomorrow morning and see what he thinks.
For lunch at school Monkey Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-91631161892108908792014-04-28T21:18:00.000+01:002014-04-28T21:18:17.803+01:00Shopping Below the Line
So today I finished off the shopping for our 5 days living below the line.
Here is Monkey with our rations!
Here's what we got
Corn Flakes
46
Milk
85
Jam
29
Rice
40
Pasta
20
Frozen mince beef
140
Sweetcorn
35
Yellow split peas
70
squash drink
42
Mixed veg
89
Loaf of Bread x 2
94
Egg
100
Banana
Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1233899085184838827.post-90368437132768016452014-04-27T22:29:00.001+01:002014-04-27T22:29:22.026+01:00Live Below the Line 2014 - PreparationsWell the time has come again to Live Below the Line. The Line being the poverty line.
1.2 Billion people around the world live below the line every day, suffering from extreme poverty and existing on less than the equivalent of £1 (US $1.25).
Last year we decided to do this quite last minute, but as we live quite frugally anyway I found it not too bad planning our 5 day menu. The challenge Bumblebeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11612915094677311271noreply@blogger.com2