Sleeping snuggly....Loungewear to keep you warm

The nights are drawing in quickly and there's nothing I like more than a good excuse to get home after work, have a bath and climb straight into some comfies, so I've picked five of my favourites for this autumn.

I'll start with the posh pick! These gorgeous Cath Kiston floral pjs are £50 . 

Lovely for those who like pretty prints and pastel colours. 

This red paisley pair from River Island will set you back £15 each for both the tops and bottoms. 

There is something so homely about these, I think my Granda had a similar pair when I was a kid, it's enough nostalgia to send me running to the shops with my cash in hand. 

This Topshop number is an all in one. It has a hood. It has dinosaurs on it. Need I say more? £34

These purple check print pjs are Marks and Spencer finest and are pure cotton for those who like a breathable material and are a snip at £25

Last and in no way least this £30 all in one from Next will set you back £30. It's 100% polyester which means it'll keep you very warm, probably not best to sleep in but if you want to feel like a fluffy sheep (it has ears on the hood) and be toasty warm this may be the one for you. Don't go near a naked flame though, it'll go up in seconds, so probably best not to cook in it! 

Cheap Day....In? Baking!

So, in case you hadn't noticed, the bank holiday was miserable. As usual we had the boys on the saturday when, in the North East, it was raining and grotty all day.  We had planned to maybe walk down the river with them if it had been nice, but we quickly needed to find indoor activity.

Swimming was first order of the day (they LOVE swimming. I HATE swimming. Well no, I like actual swimming, I do NOT like being half blind in a pool surrounded by boistrous screaming splashing children...) which they adore and which was quite funny in a terrifying way.

We then popped to town to get the ingredients for a chinese banquet the husband was planning, and while we were there grabbed the bits and pieces required to make cake pops.

Not any cake pops, these were the ludicrously easy ones that Lorraine Pascal made by crushing up oreos on her programme the other day.  I love Lorraine, but she sometimes takes the "simple" thing a little too far - who can forget her dessert of swiss roll and ice cream...

You will need:
about two packs of oreos
enough nutella to glue them together
white chocolate
sprinkles and nuts
lollipop sticks

add your oreos to a blender (we have such a pathetic blender it took several goes...)

Mix it up with nutella and then roll into 8 - 10 balls, place on a baking sheet and put in the fridge for fifteen minutes

break up and melt some white chocolate. Lorraine says cheaper is better. My stomach and tastebuds made me annoyed I'd believed her

Using some of the melted white chocolate as glue, stick lollipop stick (chopsticks in our house...) into the balls

put them back in the fridge for about 10 minutes for the white chocolate to set

prepare your decorations! (I love these ramikins, they came free with some ultra posh sticky toffee puddings and bread and butter puddings I got in waitrose)

decorate and then leave to set. Again! So much leaving to set, can't believe how patient the boys were!

CHOW DOWN

They were nice, in a "oh god I may vomit if I try and eat any more of this" kind of way. But they were fun, and easy, and we don't have an oven at the moment so it meant we could still do some baking without staring at the Halogen until our eyes bled...