Find out how even the busiest of busy girls can whip up impressive homemade treats in next to no time! Ruth Clemens finalist on the original series of The Great British Bake Off shares her secrets in creating quick but gorgeous cakes bakes & biscuits. Choose from 25 beautiful projects to make in under an hour in an afternoon or over a weekend & be amazed at what you can achieve! This book is all about cake decorating without the fuss the palaver & sometimes the tears too! The projects are split into three sections. The Evening Whip-Ups (one-hour projects) are perfect when you have very little time & are easy to throw together one evening after work. The Half-Day Delights (two-hour projects) are for when you have an afternoon to spare. Finally the Weekend Wonders (three- to four-hour projects) are for when you've got a bit more time available in your schedule! In cake-decorating terms all of the above are tiny amounts of time
- large intricate projects take professional cake decorator's days if not weeks of work. We busy girls don't have the time or the patience to create those kinds of works of art but this book contains stunning projects that can be achieved in next to no time. In addition to the projects Ruth talks you through all the equipment & ingredients you need shows you how to line a cake tin gives her tried-&-tested recipes for fruit cake sponge cake & chocolate cake as well as cupcake recipes cookie recipes & frosting recipes. She shows you how to pipe with royal icing & buttercream piping techniques & how to cover a cake with marzipan how to cover cakes & boards with sugarpaste how to trim a cake board with ribbon how to colour fondant to your desired shade how to stack cakes using dowels & some wonderful creative embellishment techniques. The Busy Girl's Guide to Cake Decorating
- the perfect place to start your foray into the world of cakes.

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This is a fabulous new storybook with four embedded tracks & a pull-back helicopter toy that little children can enjoy from again & again. Place the helicopter on the tracks & watch it zoom around as its crew rescues a skier in the mountains boys from rocks at the seaside collects an injured oil rig worker & then returns to its base at a hospital. It is a fantastic gift guaranteed to delight & entertain young children. ...

Chuggetty chuggetty clickety-clack a train is coming along the track Monkey is driving
- hear him say Who wants a trip on my train
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Provide food for breakfast fill the children's lunchboxes stock the fridge with after-school snacks cook everyone's supper day in day out...every week. Weekends mean more shopping cooking baking
- & there are always teenagers hungry partners & friends who might want a snack. Ready-meals takeaways & fast food are fine on the odd occasion but especially in these purse-stretched times families need tasty & healthy meals. In this practical cookbook Mary Gwynn shows the working mum what foods to buy that will last the week & how to have delicious easy-to-make & nutritious meals ready in a trice with no wastage.
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All busy toddlers will love exploring this bright lift-the-flap board book from Ladybird. Looking at the pictures together & talking about what is happening will help your child to develop observation & early language skills. Follow the bus driver as she goes about her day driving around the busy town. From the bustling shops of the high street to the train station & bus depot there are so many places to visit. With simple rhyming text robust flaps to lift (up to four per page!) labelled pictures & a ladybird to spot on every page there is plenty to keep young children entertained too! ...

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos & anecdotes but music is the driving force of But Beautiful & Dyer brings it to life in luminescent & wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks eccentricity & brilliance of each musicians style. ...

Beetles Bugs & Butterflies is Lola's absolute favourite book ever in the whole wide world. So naturally she is distraught when it's not at the library. Someone else has borrowed it! Charlie tries everything he can think of to placate her but nothing is ever going to beat Beetles Bugs & Butterflies. That is until Charlie finds Chimps & Chimpanzees & then Lola has a new best book ever! ...

Its the first day back at school for four very different children. Lee Lloyd Billy & Angela are expecting just an ordinary day.. .but all that changes when MARTIN zooms in from outer space! Join Lee Lloyd Billy Angela.. .and Martin for a first day of term thats out of this world! ...

The perfect introduction to philosophy for children (P4C) But Why? Provides everything you need to introduce philosophy into your classroom. & for those who are already doing P4C it will provide a welcome source of fresh inspiration & new ideas. Why do philosophy in school? This work clearly has a very positive impact on children's work across the curriculum giving them the confidence to speak & discuss ideas to a high level.
- Ofsted report P4C has far-reaching benefits that touch all parts of the curriculum & every aspect of school life by: creating a climate for learning increasing motivation developing communication skills boosting creativity & imagination teaching moral citizenship developing confidence self-esteem & emotional identification. Why But Why? But Why? offers a tried-&-tested approach that uses the character of Philosophy Bear to make philosophy accessible to even the very youngest children. As well as this manual the teaching pack (sold seperately)
Includes:: a mini Philosophy Bear four beautifully illustrated picture books written specifically for use in P4C. The manual is a highly practical guide that
Includes:: how to run a successful P4C session using stories & other stimuli for P4C strategies that will lead to fruitful thinking inspiring case studies & examples a bank of games & activities integrating philosophy into the school involving parents.


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Suzannes journey of self-discovery is anything but typical; her attitude towards sex & relationships even more unusual. The Butcher The Baker The Candlestick Maker is a story that is shocking & heart-warming in equal measure. Freed from the restraints of marriage & monogamy Suzanne takes pleasure without commitment & tells her story without a trace of shame. Shes not looking for Prince Charming anymore but fun. & she finds it. ...