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Cheese and Apple Quesadillas

2013-05-12T06:29:28Z

Sweetielol: Created page with "Take 1 tortilla wrap, grate 40 grams of cheddar cheese (mild/medium/mature) whatever your preference, peel, core and grate half an apple. Place a frying pan on a medium heat ..."

Take 1 tortilla wrap, grate 40 grams of cheddar cheese (mild/medium/mature) whatever your preference, peel, core and grate half an apple.

Place a frying pan on a medium heat and place wrap in the pan for 1 minute, add the cheese to half the wrap and place the grated apple on top, fold over the wrap and heat for 2-3 minutes each side (or longer) so the cheese melts and the wrap is crispy.

A lovely tasty snack or light lunch, and can be enjoyed by all ages.

--[[User:Sweetielol|Sweetielol]] ([[User talk:Sweetielol|talk]]) [[File:Sweetielol.jpg|64px|link=User:Sweetielol|Sweetielol]] 06:29, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Snacks

2013-05-12T06:24:10Z

Sweetielol:

[[Fish and Veg Cakes]]

[[Muffin Pizzas]]

[[Cheese and Apple Quesadillas]]

Hopefield Animal Sanctuary

2013-05-12T06:23:27Z

Sweetielol:

[http://www.hopefield.org.uk/ Hopefield Animal Sanctuary] is based a 5 minute drive away from Brentwood town center in Essex.

Hopefields Animal Sanctuary was set up by a couple in 1983, they where saddened by stories of horses and ponies being abandoned on the Rainham marshes. You can read more of there story by looking at there website.

I had come across an offer on Groupon offering a family ticket for £6, normally tickets are £3 for adults £2 children and under 2's go free.

Bank holiday weekend was coming up so I asked my mum and her lodger if they fancied a day out and off we went along with my 2year old son in tow. We arrived and parked in a field behind the sanctuary, plenty of space although a number of people parked down the lane leading up to the sanctuary making driving along quite tight! Walking around to the entrance and handing over the voucher I was asked to leave my name and phone number, in case they needed to contact me while I was there, I think this is more for marketing purposes!

As we walked round in to the sanctuary my son was in heaven, an open grassy area supplied with a bouncy castle, slides and trikes galore for him to play with along with picnic benches for families to sit down and lunch or rest, it took us 10 minutes to get him under control, we then went to look at the animals.

The first thing we come to was a 'chicken' coop, I say chicken loosely as there was also a peacock strutting around showing off his incredible feathers. Lots of hens, and a few cockerels, to which my son impressed us with his imitation of a cockerel crowing! Moving away from the coop we looked came across a number large and small baby pigs, my son recognised the pigs and so lots of oink oink cry's and shouting 'Peppa pig Peppa pig'!

We then wondered inside to a hut which had a number of hutches with run's and many many rabbits and guinea pigs jumped around, much to my son's delight as we got to the end one of the volunteers was holding a rather large extremely furry rabbit, which was extremely calm and survived the 'gentle' petting my son inflicted on him.

Moving outside we moved around some aviaries with many different types of birds. This is where we got to see many many goats, sheep. The stable blocks contained a few of the horses, and the stable doors all held a description and story of the horses that are there and a plaque in memory of those no longer with them. Some extremely sad story's go along with these animals, Hopefield really is there savior. A reptile room was available to see, a member of staff is needed to enter.

We moved around some more and come across a giant bull, happily wondering around his field, in the field next door where the horses out of the stables, the field stretched back quite some way, and there where many many horses. A little pond sat by the field and a number of ducks and geese wondered around intrigued by the visitors (and bread).

Are last stop was to the cafe, beautifully clean and offering hot and cold drinks, food/snacks and ice creams. We had bought a few things to eat ourselves but sat down in the sunshine enjoying some ice creams while my son enjoyed the slides and the bouncy castle again.

Overall we spent at most 2 hours there, it was a beautiful sunny day and we enjoyed seeing the animals and playing on the bouncy castle and slides. I do think if it had rained we would not of stayed as long, you do have to cross a field when parking, and then entering the site, this would not make pushing a buggy or wheelchair easy if wet and muddy
--[[User:Sweetielol|Sweetielol]] ([[User talk:Sweetielol|talk]]) 05:33, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hopefield Animal Sanctuary

2013-05-08T05:33:30Z

Sweetielol: Created page with "Hopefield Animal Sanctuary, is based a 5 minute drive away from Brentwood town center in Essex I had come across an offer on Groupon offering a family ticket for £6, normall..."

Hopefield Animal Sanctuary, is based a 5 minute drive away from Brentwood town center in Essex

I had come across an offer on Groupon offering a family ticket for £6, normally tickets are £3 for adults £2 children and under 2's go free.

Bank holiday weekend was coming up so I asked my mum and her lodger if they fancied a day out and off we went along with my 2year old son in tow. We arrived and parked in a field behind the sanctuary, plenty of space although a number of people parked down the lane leading up to the sanctuary making driving along quite tight! Walking around to the entrance and handing over the voucher I was asked to leave my name and phone number, in case they needed to contact me while I was there, I think this is more for marketing purposes!

As we walked round in to the sanctuary my son was in heaven, an open grassy area supplied with a bouncy castle, slides and trikes galore for him to play with along with picnic benches for families to sit down and lunch or rest, it took us 10 minutes to get him under control and look around
--[[User:Sweetielol|Sweetielol]] ([[User talk:Sweetielol|talk]]) 05:33, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Places to Visit with children

2013-05-08T05:22:29Z

Sweetielol:

* [[Peppa Pig World]]
* [[Flamingo Land]]
* [[Hopefield Animal Sanctuary]]

Sweetielol's story

2013-05-01T05:21:28Z

Sweetielol:

When I was 19 year's old, I got pregnant accidentally, disaster most my age may of thought, not me I was over the moon, the boyfriend wasn't sure but just as he got excited disaster struck, I began bleeding and was in pain. The pregnancy turned out to be ectopic, which too those unsure means that it was growing outside the womb and therefore was not viable. The fallopian tube was very close to rupturing and was removed. I had umpteen Doctors visit me while I stayed in hospital, but what stood out to me then was the word IVF!

Being so young I carried on living life and and having fun, babies and IVF where never far from my thoughts. In 2001 myself and my husband became a couple, we had known each other for some time and things eventually clicked. My husband knew I wanted a family of my own (he has 2 daughters from a previous marriage) and we started trying in the hope that things would just happen, I mean we where young why would it not, after a year nothing had happened. I had already been diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome)which can cause fertility issues, but as so much time had passed trying to conceive, me made the inevitable visit to the GP and where referred to the local hospital for tests. By 2005 we where under Barts hospital, London, and after numerous blood tests, scans and sperm tests, we had our first try with IVF. I found the whole process fairly easy, injecting did not bother me at all, it was a necessary process to get what I longed for. Sadly it failed, but we had some embryos frozen, and had a FET (frozen embryo transfer) in 2006, again this failed and money was tight so we stopped treatment.

A few years later after my husband had taken his daughters home after spending a lovely easter together, I noticed how quiet it had become, and I realised I did not like the quiet, something had to be done. I went online and looked up my local PCT, and sent a very long email. Previously we had been unable to have free IVF because my husband has children, it did not take into account that I did not! Anyway they replied and advised that as the girls did not live with us and together we had no children, we where entitled to 3 goes of IVF plus FET if required. Woohoo, finally a break, so back off to the GP and re-referred to Barts. So in 2009 we headed back to the hospital and started tests again, I had my remaining tube removed and found I was 'missing' an ovary, strange, as never been told it has been removed and all scans showed '2' ovarys. Anyhow I had been having problems in late 2008 early 2009 high blood pressure and feeling pretty rubbish so I started loosing weight. In May 2010 we started our 2nd fresh IVF cycle, it went well and soon I was on the dreaded '2 week' wait, that was my 'hell' as for many other woman constantly watching for symptoms, I remember those 2 weeks as painful! I felt awful, the whole time, 3 days before my test date, and after waking up to the most horrendous heart burn we decided to test, the longest few minutes went by and we checked the pee stick, it was POSITIVE, at long last our dream was starting to become a reality.

L was born in April 2011 and has just celebrated his 2nd birthday, he is a cheeky, smiley, happy chatty boy and I love him to pieces, he has made our lives, every day is a joy. Coming home from work to the sound of 'mummy's home' is the best along with the kiss, cuddle and 'wuv oo mummy' before he gets tucked up in bed :)

--[[User:Sweetielol|Sweetielol]] ([[User talk:Sweetielol|talk]]) 05:34, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Sweetielol's story

2013-04-29T05:34:27Z

Sweetielol:

When I was 19 year's old, I got pregnant accidentally, disaster most my age may of thought, not me I was over the moon, the boyfriend wasn't sure but just as he got excited disaster struck, I began bleeding and was in pain. The pregnancy turned out to be ectopic, which too those unsure means that it was growing outside the womb and therefore was not viable. The fallopian tube was very close to rupturing and was removed. I had umpteen Doctors visit me while I stayed in hospital, but what stood out to me then was the word IVF!

Being so young I carried on living life and and having fun, babies and IVF where never far from my thoughts. In 2001 myself and my husband became a couple, we had known each other for some time and things eventually clicked. My husband knew I wanted a family of my own (he has 2 daughters from a previous marriage) and we started trying in the hope that things would just happen, I mean we where young why would it not, after a year nothing had happened, so the inevitable visit to the GP and referral to the local hospital for tests followed. By 2005 we where under Barts hospital, London, and after numerous blood tests, scans and sperm tests we had our first try with IVF. I found the whole process fairly easy, injecting did not bother me at all, it was a necessary process to get what I longed for. Sadly it failed, but we had some embryos frozen, and had a FET (frozen embryo transfer) in 2006, again this failed and money was tight so we stopped treatment.

A few years later after my husband had taken his daughters home after spending a lovely easter together, I noticed how quiet it had become, and I realised I did not like the quiet, something had to be done. I went online and looked up my local PCT, and sent a very long email. Previously we had been unable to have free IVF because my husband has children, it did not take into account that I did not! Anyway they replied and advised that as the girls did not live with us and together we had no children, we where entitled to 3 goes of IVF plus FET if required. Woohoo, finally a break, so back off to the GP and re-referred to Barts. So in 2009 we headed back to the hospital and started tests again, I had my remaining tube removed and found I was 'missing' an ovary, strange, as never been told it has been removed and all scans showed '2' ovarys. Anyhow I had been having problems in late 2008 early 2009 high blood pressure and feeling pretty rubbish so I started loosing weight. In May 2010 we started our 2nd fresh IVF cycle, it went well and soon I was on the dreaded '2 week' wait, that was my 'hell' as for many other woman constantly watching for symptoms, I remember those 2 weeks as painful! I felt awful, the whole time, 3 days before my test date, and after waking up to the most horrendous heart burn we decided to test, the longest few minutes went by and we checked the pee stick, it was POSITIVE, at long last our dream was starting to become a reality.

L was born in April 2011 and has just celebrated his 2nd birthday, he is a cheeky, smiley, happy chatty boy and I love him to pieces, he has made our lives every day is a joy, coming home from work to the sound of 'mummy's home' is the best along with the kiss, cuddle and 'wuv oo mummy' before he gets tucked up in bed :)
--[[User:Sweetielol|Sweetielol]] ([[User talk:Sweetielol|talk]]) 05:34, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Sweetielol's story

2013-04-28T14:25:38Z

Sweetielol: Created page with "When I was 19 year's old, I got pregnant accidentally, disaster most my age may of thought, not me I was over the moon, the boyfriend wasn't sure but just as he got excited di..."

When I was 19 year's old, I got pregnant accidentally, disaster most my age may of thought, not me I was over the moon, the boyfriend wasn't sure but just as he got excited disaster struck, I began bleeding and was in pain. The pregnancy turned out to be ectopic, which too those unsure means that it was growing outside the womb and therefore was not viable. The fallopian tube was very close to rupturing and was removed. I had umpteen Doctors visit me while I stayed in hospital, but what stood out to me then was the word IVF!

Being so young I carried on living life and and having fun, babies and IVF where never far from my thoughts. In 2001 myself and my husband became a couple, we had known each other for some time and things eventually clicked. My husband knew I wanted a family of my own (he has 2 daughters from a previous marriage) and we started trying in the hope that things would just happen, I mean we where young why would it not, after a year nothing had happened, so the inevitable visit to the GP and referral to the local hospital for tests followed. By 2005 we where under Barts hospital, London, and after numerous blood tests, scans and sperm tests we had our first try with IVF. I found the whole process fairly easy, injecting did not bother me at all, it was a necessary process to get what I longed for. Sadly it failed, but we had some embryos frozen, and had a FET (frozen embryo transfer) in 2006, again this failed and money was tight so we stopped treatment.

A few years later after my husband had taken his daughters home after spending a lovely easter together, I noticed how quiet it had become, and I realised I did not like the quiet, something had to be done. I went online and looked up my local PCT, and sent a very long email. Previously we had been unable to have free IVF because my husband has children, it did not take into account that I did not! Anyway they replied and advised that as the girls did not live with us and together we had no children, we where entitled to 3 goes of IVF plus FET if required. Woohoo, finally a break, so back off to the GP and re-referred to Barts. So in 2009 we headed back to the hospital and started tests again, I had my remaining tube removed and found I was 'missing' an ovary, strange, as never been told it has been removed and all scans showed '2' ovarys. Anyhow I had been having problems in late 2008 early 2009 high blood pressure and feeling pretty rubbish so I started loosing weight. In May 2010 we started our 2nd fresh IVF cycle, it went well and soon I was on the dreaded '2 week' wait, that was my 'hell' as for many other woman constantly watching for symptoms, I remember those 2 weeks as painful! I felt awful, the whole time, 3 days before my test date, and after waking up to the most horrendous heart burn we decided to test, the longest few minutes went by and we checked the pee stick, it was POSITIVE, at long last our dream was starting to become a reality.

L was born in April 2011 and has just celebrated his 2nd birthday, he is a cheeky, smiley, happy chatty boy and I love him to pieces, he has made our lives every day is a joy, coming home from work to the sound of 'mummy's home' is the best along with the kiss, cuddle and 'wuv oo mummy' before he gets tucked up in bed :)

IVF Stories

2013-04-28T13:38:36Z

Sweetielol:

[[Mad Margaret's Story]]

[[Kerry's Story]]

[[Pinky's story]]

[[Sarah's story]]

[[Teresal's Story]]

[[AtoZ's story]]

[[Twinkle1975's Story]]

[[Snow White's Story]]

[[Sweetielol's story]]