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I’ve been a busy bee during the Christmas period and have sorted a few changes to the blog. Hope they aren’t too confusing!
I have set up a new NHM Facebook Page which will be where all future NorthHantsMum posts will be published.
The NHM Friend will still be available but I will only share information on here. The blog posts ONLY be on the NHM Page from today.
I’m putting together a survey to understand what you lovely readers would like me to focus on. If you would like to complete the survey, please let me know via Facebook or NorthHantsMum@gmail.com. If I don’t get much response I may randomly pick readers so I apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused.
This is a plea for help…I’m finding it quite difficult to keep on top of what’s going on in and near Basingstoke. I know that lots of you have great knowledge of what’s going on in the area (that’s relevant for parents) and was wondering if you could let me know when you find something that might be useful for other Parents in the area? If you have any events that you would like to publicise then please also let me know.
My husband is very supportive of NorthHantsMum and as a surprise over Christmas he organised NHM business cards and keyrings for me. Look out for these very “coveted” items (when I manage to give them out to friends who can “distribute” them for me at appropriate places!). If you would like a keyring, let me know your details and I will post you one!
I’m hoping to start building closer relationships with local businesses and would like to really get this off the ground early this year. If you are a local business and would like some free advertising and increased interest in your business, please let me know. There are over 500 parents on NHM and the number is growing every day!
Finally, I would like to thank you all of you lovely readers (again!) for all of your support on NHM. I’m so delighted that my hobby is becoming so successful and that’s thanks to YOU!
Happy New Year! Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and marvellous New Year.I thoroughly enjoyed my two weeks off. We had a lovely first Christmas with our little one and it was so nice to connect with family and friends and not do any work or blogging! I need to get back into the swing of things though so normal service should resume this week. I’m working on moving all posts from NHM Facebook Friend (that’s NorthHantsMum ;-)) to the NHM Facebook Page. There will be more about this hopefully this week…
So, to start 2012 on NHM this post is a summary of the most popular posts that featured in 2011. (Yes, I’m being very lazy and not doing a new original post, but I’m trying to ease back in gently! lol)
NorthHantsMum won’t be posting anything for the next two weeks as I’m on my Christmas holidays. YAY! I’m going to use some of the time to plan and prepare the blog for next year – lots of exciting things coming up.
It’s been such an awesome 6 months since I started NorthHantsMum. Thank you all so much for reading, for your comments and for all of your support, online and offline.
I wish you all a wonderful Christmas (your first “Christmas with babies” for lots of you!!!!) and a fabulous New Year and look forward to connecting with you again in 2012!
Ok, I tried to hold out but I think you can probably tell from the recent Christmas themed blogs that I’m starting to get quite excited!!!
I found this website when I was looking for Norad Santa Tracking and I was really impressed with the content, specifically the activities for little ones.
and there are loads of other things to check out. Worth a look if you would like some good Christmas activities to share with your little ones. http://www.northpole.com/
Norad Santa tracking is a brilliant website. The site officially opens on Christmas Eve and you can then track exactly where Santa is at any time whilst he is delivering Christmas presents across the world.
If you want to see how long it is until Santa starts his present delivery the Norad Santa tracking site will tell you. You can also purchase App or Android App to mirror the website. Very cool.
When you put your mince pie and glass of sherry out for Father Christmas on the mantle piece, and the water and carrots for Rudolph and the rest of the reindeers outside the back door, you can make it even more convincing for your little ones by re-creating Father Christmas’ snowy footprints!
Very cool and very convincing if done well. Oh and easy to hoover up afterwards when the footsteps “magically” disappear 😉
I’ve been thinking of all those things you don’t want to run out of at Christmas. You might want to double up on these items beforehand so you don’t have to make a special trip to the shops during Christmas with little ones in tow.
Crisp Malting Group says Norfolk speciality malt plant is on stream at Great Ryburgh | Cromer, Sheringham and North Walsham News - North Norfolk News
Managing director Adrian Dyter inside Crisp Maltings' new facilities at Great Ryburgh. Picture: Ian Burt
A £3.5m specialist malting plant in north Norfolk – the first of its kind in Britain – has come on stream this week.
The facility is running on schedule and will expand the range of malts produced by the Crisp Malting Group at Great Ryburgh, near Fakenham, said group managing director Adrian Dyter.
Speaking at the 69th annual meeting of Holt and District Farmers’ Club, Mr Dyter said the maltings group, which is the 11th largest in the world, also has maltings in northern Germany and Poland. It produced a total of about 430,000 tonnes a year of malt from all its plants.
The new speciality plant can roast malt inside two vibrating spiral towers, with the level of heat controlling the darkness of the malt, adding extra flavour and body to particular styles of beer.
Mr Dyter told about 40 club members at the Feathers’ Hotel in Holt, that the plant would produce new types of coloured malts and would be running fully by the end of the first quarter next year. “There is keen demand for new malts from enterprising craft and specialist brewers,” he said.
The independent maltster has also invested £3.2m in a malt milling and bagging plant at Ryburgh. This will supply the rapidly-expanding craft brewing market with about 1,000 tonnes of malt a week, said Mr Dyter.
Mr Dyter, who comes from Woodbridge, started in the malting industry with long-established Ipswich-based firm Paul’s in 1990.
Before taking over at Ryburgh in 2016, his most recent role had been head of malt procurement for Carlsberg buying some 1.2m tonnes of malt annually.
My Dyter said Crisp had invested more than £3.5m to produce peated malt at Portgordon, Scotland. This was an exciting and growing sector as distillers around the world, including Thailand and Brazil were looking to meet demand for “peaty” liquors, he said.
And, specialist malting barley growers in Norfolk were well-placed to produce the vital raw material needed by the group for the future, he said.
A former malting barley specialist, John Cragg, formerly of merchants Adams and Howling, gave the vote of thanks.
Earlier, club chairman Jimmy Fowell thanked Jack Hammond for his 22 years’ service to the club. He had been a former chairman and committee member, who had never missed a meeting.
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