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e r f l A WI T H K IDS by Dawn Geddes
Lemongrove Melamine plates by Lakeland – from £3.79
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ating outdoors with your family sounds idyllic. In your head, you picture a big family sitting together smiling and laughing while they dig into a beautiful spread, before raising a glass to each other and basking in sunlight. Sounds like bliss. In reality this is rarely the way it works out, especially when small children are involved. Getting them to sit down to eat is the first problem, then there’s the ensuing food related drama of making sure that the picnic food is cool enough and the meat on the barbeque has been cooked through. By the time we’ve done all this, we’ve still got to spend time pleading with kids to actually eat something, before they dive straight into the pudding course.
made JUL / AUG 2018
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