Saturday 6 December 2014

My Favourite Time of Year - The Florin Street Band (New Christmas Songs)

In Your Wildest Dreams!

This is a remarkably charming book by Seniha Ozer, with compelling a brightly coloured illustrations by Gill Guile.

The book follows on from Sweet Dreams, a book in which Poppy found out how to change her bad dreams into good dreams, with the help of her Grandad.

Poppy finds out that she can use this newly acquired knowledge to help her brother Henry to enjoy sweet, magical dreams, too.

Until one night they both had the same dream, the wildest, wackiest dream ever!

Was the Grandad in their dream? And what was on that piece of paper?

This book is an ideal bedtime read for parents, grandparents and children alike and will make a great Christmas present. It is published by Matador at £7.99.

ISBN 978 1784620 639.


Friday 5 December 2014

Rusty and Friends

Rusty and Friends is a book by Marianne Parry. It is a book for children, which deals with a range of important topics such as friendship, bullying, being let down and, ultimately, redemption.

Rusty loves his father and he is heartbroken when he learns that the man he loves, his very own father, is a thief.

Marianne Parry depicts well the conflicts that Rusty feels, on the one had he longs to visit his father in prison with his mother, yet he always feels anxious before and during the visit.

Rusty is bullied at school, yet he has the support and help of his two best friends Willie and Sylvester.

The book has several interweaving plots that cross various generations and sensitively touches on images of race, racism, identify and redemption when, perhaps unexpectedly, Rusty's father proves himself to be a better man than perhaps even he himself realised and something of a heroic figure.

It is a charming book and is ideal for boys and girls and will be a well-received Christmas present.

The book costs £6.99 and is published by Matador as a paperback and also as an e-book.

The ISBN is 978 1784620 363.

Thursday 4 December 2014

Cool Chile Co. It's just like having your own bartender in your home!

Everyone likes the ideas of providing some really good cocktails at their Christmas and New Year's Eve parties.

But when someone asks for a "proper" Margarita, what exactly does that mean?

And do they want a sweet one? Or Not?

Have no fear, folks! The Cool Chile Co (the UK's top supplier of Mexican cooking supplies) can step in and help you to produce two of the best type of Margaritas that you will ever have tasted, and it's going to be one of the easiest things you have ever done.

Firstly, take your packet of specially selected and specially blended packet of spices, seasoning and salt.

Place some of the powder into a saucer, we the rim of your glass with a cut lime and then place the inverted Margarita glass into the powder, then remove your glass from the powder and carefully add your drink into the glass and serve your instantly authentic and delicious Margarita!

There are two type available, the Salty Chilli Margarita Rim and the Sweet Hibiscus Margarita Rim.

Why not provide both for your guests to see which they prefer?

They come in attractive tins so will make an ideal gift for the cocktail lover in your life.

They cost £3.50 a tin.

You can learn more about them at www.coolchile.co.uk.


Sugru is an ideal gift for the crafters in your life

Sometimes, people can be quite difficult to buy presents for. Especially the creative folks in your life.

That's Christmas has found an ideal item for a Christmas gift for the crafters in your life.

It is Sugru which is a special mouldable glue, and which is now available in special limited edition Silver Grey and five awesome new colours varieties, specially for Christmas.

What can crafters do with Sugru? They can stick it permanently to lots of different surfaces. Such as glass, metal, wood and most plastics and even some fabrics, too.

But that's only the first stage. At the second stage they will be able to shape it to build up, make, seal or repair. Or even stick things together.

At the third stage they can give it 24 hours and, guess what? At the end of the 24 hour period, Sugru turns into a durable and flexible silicone rubber compound that stays exactly where  they left it. Or at least, until they decide to remove it.

Sugru comes in handy resealable pocket sized tins and was invented by Jane and is made in the UK "with science and love."

To learn more about this amazing product you can visit www.sugru.com.

Looking for a cheeky little stocking filler? Then M. T. Books can help you!

If you are looking for a cheeky little stocking filler of a present, then British-based publisher M. T. Books will be able to help you.

M. T. Books has a growing catalogue of books on a wide range of subjects.

Subjects covered include:

Good Reasons to Support Chelsea, The Integrity of Piers Morgan, The Point of Katie Hopkins,  Everything The Scots Love About the English, Manchester United: The Trophy Cabinet Story 2014-50 and The Wit and Wisdom of Jeremy Clarkson.

And when your friend or colleague opens the book, well, let's just hope that they get as good a laugh out of the 'contents' of the book as you did when you chose it for them!

They are available via Amazon and at £3.99 each, make a novel conversation piece and a spiffy stocking filler!


Re'al is real gourmet Cream of Coconut

There's absolutely no doubt about it, Re'al is really and genuinely a real gourmet cream of coconut.

It's smooth and it's got that real and genuine taste that one can only get from hand picked tropical coconuts.

If you can resist eating it with a spoon straight out of the easy serve squeezable container, what can you do with it?

Just about anything you'd want to, really.

It's going to make a great standby for all of your coconut cream-based cocktail drinks.

It helps you prepare the ultimate in Pina Coladas, the best ever Coconut Daiquiri and a really good Coconut Mojito.

You can use it not only in your cocktails but as a cooking ingredient and a sauce to pour on ice cream and so much more.

And don't forget, there are eight other flavours, too! Blueberry, Peach, Mango, Raspberry, Strawberry, Pumpkin, Blue Agave Nectar and Ginger Purées.

Just visit http://realingredients.com to learn more.