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My Favourite Travel Apps

As an autistic person, I find travel very difficult to manage - from noisy airports, navigating public transport, being out of my daily routines, and not having my home comforts.…

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Meet Ekans (My Lavender Corn Snake)

TW: Snakes 🐍 Introducing Ekans, My Lavender Corn Snake Ekans has been part of our family for over a year now and I honestly couldn't be happier! She's quite a…

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My Favorite Posts From The Past 15 Years of Blogging

The 2nd April 2024 marks 15 years of blogging here on Chimmyville! It's quite hard to believe I've been had my blog for 15 years now. Although, technically I've had…

The Lord of the Rings Tag | Celebrating 20 Years of The Fellowship

The 10th December 2021, marks 20 years(!) since the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring at the Odeon Leicester Square in London...That makes me…

What to expect at MCM Birmingham Comic Con

The MCM Comic Con and Memorabilia show in Birmingham has always been one of the convention highlights for me. In fact, their 2009 show was my first time at a…

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Date Ideas

January 25, 2016

As Valentine’s Day is next month I thought I’d share my list of date ideas with you. There’s also a .pdf checklist for you to…

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- Food & Drink
- Recipes
Chicken pesto pasta

January 23, 2016

Tonight I made chicken and pesto pasta for dinner. Funnily my first time using chicken with pasta! I don’t know why I haven’t cooked this…

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Christmas cupcakes

December 27, 2015

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🙂 For Christmas this year I’ve decided to bake Christmas cupcakes and a chocolate chip banana cake as…

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Mince pies

December 2, 2015

Last December, I baked a gingerbread house and mince pies for the Christmas period. I’ve yet to decide what I’ll be doing this year, yet,…

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Gifts for Bakers

November 20, 2015

Ever struggle with what to get for the baker in your life? If they’re anything like me they probably already have just about every baking…

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Chocolate Frosted Funfetti Cake with Jam Filling

October 20, 2015

Tomorrow is Ryan’s birthday (and Back to the Future day). Unfortunately, he’s working until 22.00pm so we decided to celebrate today. There was presents, singing…

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Back to the Future

October 19, 2015

October 2015 was the time Marty McFly travelled to the future in Back to the Future part 2. Specifically on October 21st, which also happens…

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Hello Autumn

October 16, 2015

Autumn has always been my favourite season; leaves changing colour, cooler weather but not bitterly cold (although I’m sure that’ll be here soon I’m sure),…

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- Food & Drink
- Recipes
Spaghetti bolognaise – classic

October 13, 2015

Quick and easy to make but really tasty. This recipe serves 4 but we had the left overs another night. Spaghetti bolognaise is one of…

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