Mozart Chocolate Cream Pumpkin Spice | Drinks Recipe

As it’s October, you can now get almost everything in orange, or in Pumpkin Spice flavour. As it turns out, alcohol is no exception to that. As it’s the season we decided to pick up the Mozart Chocolate Cream Pumpkin Spice edition when we spotted it online. I’m going to talk about it for a little bit today as part of our highly Halloween-themed Blogtober challenge.

Firstly, although it’s tough to see on the label, it is a dairy-based alcohol – like Tia Maria and Baileys. If you don’t like those – or have severe allergies – then just stay away. It’s got quite a lot in common with those two brands, however, it should definitely be noted that the flavour really, really comes through in this one.

That said, I’m actually not the biggest fan of pumpkin spice. But this is definitely not to the extremes that we see in other things (Coffee). Sipping it straight you almost immediately get the creamy texture coming though, this is actually almost syrupy. Then, rather than just the flavouring, the bite of the spirit comes through at the same time, with the bite dying away and leaving the taste. It’s nice, and it’s not bad drinking straight, although as with it’s dairy-based cousins I find that it’s better mixed with something else.

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Blue Coffee Box Subscription | Review

[Ad- gifted product] We’ve been trying out the Blue Coffee Box monthly subscription, a box which includes two large bags of ethically sourced, gourmet coffee as well as lots of well-thought-out extra information included.

I know a lot of people who are very particular about their coffee, be that how it’s made, where it’s from, what it’s served with or, of course, what it tastes like. I’d never really lump myself into the category of being a coffee enthusiast, but I do drink a lot of the stuff and we have recently acquired Vietnamese Coffee Makers/Phin Vietnamese Filter following a great experience out at a pho restaurant. I’ve tried a lot of coffee over the years, be that from vending machines, instant or coffee grounds, and had a decent variety of it too. With that in mind, I was very interested in what kind of flavours we could expect from a box like this.

Blue Coffee Box

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A Day Out at Marsh Farm’s Pumpkin Picking Village

Looking for a pumpkin patch to find your Halloween Pumpkin is no small task. There are normally many, many pumpkin places around, but we wanted to explore something new! Jupiter found Marsh Farm’s Pumpkin Picking Village (and Halloween Festival) and was quite excited about it. It’s not too far from us by car, so we figured we’d all go after school and grab some pumpkins to carve up for our doorstep.

Arriving at the Pumpkin Picking Village, we were all impressed with the spooky barn that you have to enter through. Once in, you can put down a £5, refundable, deposit on a green wagon to take into the pumpkin area. We did get one of these as each of us were set on getting a decent sized pumpkin, as well as some smaller pumpkins, to decorate the house. Marsh Farm has set up their pumpkin village to be a great place to take photographs, as well as find the perfect pumpkin. There are a bunch of different types from nobbly ones to classic orange pumpkins, to white ghosts or spliced pumpkins (that had a few different squashes growing inside of other ones).

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A Day Out at Circus Fantasia

My eldest, Kai, saw the colourful posters around town and started asking about visiting the circus. Circus Fantasia, a traveling circus on it’s 8th year of show, was in our area for the week, with their new 2020 program. Jupiter had never been to a circus before, and when I had gone as a child, it was much too loud for my ears and I had a terrible time. Despite this, as Kai wanted to go, we set out to grab tickets up and spend the evening at Circus Fantasia.

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Keeping Children Entertained with PoundToy

[Ad- gifted product] With the children going back to school and back to staying home again in the evenings, we have been looking for new toys and games to limit their screen time but keep them entertained. After our last bundle of toys, we figured we’d try some new items and keep things interesting in our household. PoundToy always has many deals on their website, cheaper items for sale, and lots of bundles of goodies for you to pick up.

We picked out a bunch of toys and wanted to share what the kids loved most of all. These toys and activities have kept them busy in the run up to school and beyond – and it’s good to see them off of video games and in the moment.

Pikmi Pops Pushmi Ups Surprise Scented Plush

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