Mother's Day Gift Ideas for Mums-To-Be (and a giveaway!)

My daughter's due date was Mother's Day.  Predictably, she dragged her heels and didn't finally put in an appearance til 10 days later and I was pretty miffed I'd have to wait a whole year for my first Mother's Day!

But to be honest, I think pregnant mammas deserve to be treated on Mother's Day.  They should be pampered and spoiled, after all they've carrying a huge responsibility around in their tummies for 9 months.

But what gift can you by for a mum-to-be for Mother's Day?  Well I've rounded up some fabulous treats to suit all budgets.

A positive birth.

I don't think a prospective dad could give any better gift than ensuring the mother of his child experiences a calm birth.  Resolve to learn coping techniques along with her and be a rock of support when push comes to shove (pardon the pun).

The Calm Birth School offer an online antenatal hypnobirthing course which can be done together, from the comfort of your own home.  Perfect for busy couples who struggle to find time to get to regular classes.

The classes are delivered in the form of videos direct to your inbox, and is backed up with supportive telecons and a private Facebook community of experts and peers to share any worries or concerns you have.

The aim of hypnobirthing is to allow you to fully understand your body and it's capabilities, have faith and trust in your own abilities and to arm you with deep relaxation techniques to help you stay calm and in control throughout pregnancy and birth.

Image Credit Philippa James Photography

Founders Suzy and Hollie are both experienced hypo-birthing practitioners, and busy mums.  Their no-nonsense attitude and down-to-earth manner will instantly put you at ease.

No vagina-whispering, kumbaya-singing, goddess-channeling nonsense.

Just scientifically-proven calming and relaxation techniques, so that

you know what is happening in your body and how to work with it.

The full course cost £150 and you can sign up for free initial sessions here.

Mum-To-Be Pamper Parcels

Pamper Parcels is a wonderful company with a real eye for beautiful, ethically sourced gifts.  Each item in their gift parcels is meticulously researched and only included if it meets their high standards.  You'll find organic; fair-trade; small business produced products with no animal testing; using recycled packaging and natural ingredients.  You can be sure you're gifting only the best for mum-to-be.

Mum to be Pamper Parcel £60

A beautifully luxurious treat for any pregnant lady, she can feel pampered and indulged with this set, hand wrapped and sent through the post with a personal message.

Contains:

1 x Burt’s Bees belly butter

1 x Burt’s Bees foot and leg cream

1 x Green People nurture body lotion

1 x1 Tisserand luxury bath soak

1 x Montezuma milk chocolate bar

Smaller Pamper Parcels are available at £35, £30 and £25.

Promise Vouchers

This is a low budget, but super-thoughtful gift for any mum-to-be.  Design and print out your own book of IOU vouchers to be redeemed when she fancies.  I promise to paint your toenails?  I promise to do a midnight dash to the all-night garage and fetch Creme Eggs/Dr Pepper/Pickled Onion Monster Munch? I promise to rub stretch mark cream on your tummy?

Download your free printable ones here.

Pregnancy and Baby Diary

We've all heard the expression 'pregnancy brain'.  Well it's true, we'd forget our head if it wasn't screwed on.  Must be all that trying to remember to take our folic acid and remembering what foods we can and can't eat, that everything else simply goes out of the window.

Mum's Office comes to the rescue with this elegant diary for keeping track of all the important dates and information and recording all those special milestones once baby comes along.

Mum's Pregnancy Diary £16.95

This undated diary comes in this season’s colour ‘peppermint’ with lizard-effect hardback cover, silver gilt-edged pages and ribbon markers. The luxurious journal is a perfect gift for new mums and mums-to-be this Mother's Day.  It includes special pages to record the entire pregnancy: midwife appointments, scans, birth plan, classes, and pregnancy milestones; as well as tear-out shopping lists for baby and mum and a record of gifts received.  The journal also has dedicated pages to help with packing your hospital bag, things to do before baby arrives etc.  You will also find, need to know numbers, (an ‘In case I lose my mobile!’ section), not to mention a undated complete pregnancy diary for you to date (with a week-to-view double page spread) with signature ‘hot pink’ grid format for each week of your baby’s first year.  Record baby’s milestones, special dates, immunisations, check-ups, first smile, first steps and much more. With plenty of extra space for general notes.  This special book will become a wonderful keepsake in years to come.

Mum's Office have kindly offered one of these diaries to one lucky reader.  If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning this great prize, please complete the rafflecopter below. Closing date is midnight on Sunday 15th February 2015. UK entrants only please, one winner will be chosen at random.

Special thanks to Mum's Diary for providing the prize.

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Surprises in the frozen food aisle

When I do my supermarket shopping, I'm like a robot.  I generally pick up the same things, I go to the same places on the shelves, I go up the same aisles. I am a creature of habit.

There are some aisles I rarely visit.  The alcohol aisle for example (ok, that may be a lie).  But the frozen food aisle is one I usually skip for sure.  I have in my head it's full of chicken nuggets; chips; pizzas and any other kind of reconstituted, deep fried, saturated fat laden redy-meals you can imagine. I whizz up there briefly on the odd occasion that we've run out of frozen peas, or maybe for ice cream in the summer, but that's about it.

I've been asked by The British Frozen Food Federation and Cool Cookery to challenge my perceptions, and throw myself head-first into the freezer section (not literally, that would be foolish.  And cold).

I have to say, I was surprised.  I literally had no idea the range of frozen fruit and vegetables that is on offer.  Fish and meat too - actual pieces of real fish, not a breadcrumb in sight.

Obviously the advantages of buying fruit and veg frozen are reduced waste - how often have we thrown limp carrots out of the fridge or squidgy strawberries? Frozen food keeps for so much longer, you only use what you need and pop the rest back for another meal.

Fast freezing after picking means that nutrients are retained better too, so the chances are a bag of frozen green beans are going to have more vitamins in that that bag of floppy beans that have been lurking in your salad drawer for the past fortnight.

Put to the test of coming up with a meal using frozen produce, here's what I purchased:

1 large bag of mixed veg - sadly the supermarket was out of stock of separate carrots and beans, so I bought them mixed and risked frostbite separating them for my recipes!

1 bag of cod fillets 

1 bag of chopped coriander - oh joy!  Frozen herbs.  Who knew?  No more chopping, no more pots of droopy, sorry looking herbs sitting on the windowsill, now I can have proper, fresh tasting herbs in my cooking, without the maintenance of trying to keep pot plants alive!

So what did I make?

First up, carrot and coriander soup.  One of our favourite soup flavour combos, but I was delighted to find I could whip up a batch of hearty, homemade soup in about 10 minutes.  No peeling and chopping required.  Perfect for a warming winter lunch.

Carrot and Coriander Soup Recipe:

300g frozen carrots

1 pint veg stock (you can buy frozen stock, or make it up with a cube, or make your own from scratch)

1 tablespoon frozen coriander

Optional:

1cm piece of ginger, chopped and/or zest of half an orange

Method:

Place your frozen carrots in a pan with the stock (include your ginger now if using). Bring to the boil.

Simmer for about 10 minutes (this depends on how thick your carrot pieces are). Check to make sure they're cooked.

Turn off heat and add the coriander.  Stir in.

Blend with a stick blender or food processor, and stir in orange zest if using.

Serve with crusty bread or crutons.

This soup was delicious, every bit as good as the soup I make with fresh carrots.  The colour was a little less vibrant than using fresh vegetables and herbs, but it tasted just as good.

Baked Cod with olives and chorizo

This is another family favourite  which I adapted from a Jamie Oliver recipe. I usually make it with fresh cod and fresh vegetables, but this time I've substituted frozen fish and frozen green beans.  The other items I usually have in my fridge or pantry, so it's a great one for a midweek meal.  It's also a low--maintenance recipe requiring minimal washing-up - winner!

Ingredients (per person)

1 frozen cod fillet

A few slices of chorizo

A handful of cherry tomatoes (halved or pricked so they don't explode!)

A handful of frozen green beans

A handful of olives

Splash of olive oil

Splash of lemon juice

Salt and pepper to taste.

Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 180.

Take a large piece of tin foil and fold it in half.  Then firmly fold over the side edges a few times to make a parcel.

Place all the ingredients except the fish in a bowl and toss together. Season with salt and pepper.

Spoon  your vegetables and juice into the foil parcel and add the fish on top. Roll over the top edge of the parcel, but be sure to leave space for air and steam to circulate.

Stand on a baking tray and cook for approximately 30 minutes.

Carefully open the parcel at the top (be careful of the hot steam) and tip out onto a plate to serve, make sure to serve up the smokey spicy juice too - it's the best bit!

Again, I was pleasantly surprised with this dish using frozen ingredients.  It took a little longer to cook than using fresh obviously, but the taste and ease of cooking was just the same.

My life would be so much simpler if I could knock up healthy family meals from the contents of my freezer instead of having to keep nipping to the shops for fresh meat, fish and vegetables, so I have to say, I'm a bit of a convert.  I'm going to be checking out what other family favourites can be made from frozen now.

With research showing the average family can save £250 on their grocery bill by using frozen ingredients and reducing waste, there's no reason not to really.

Disclosure: I’m working with BritMums and Coolcookery.co.uk highlighting the versatility, economy and nutritional benefits of cooking with frozen food. All opinions are my own. For recipes and ideas visit http://bit.ly/coolcookery  I have been compensated for my time.

Is fruit juice bad for you?

We seem to be steering away from drinking fruit juices.  With stark newspaper headlines about toddlers having tooth decay; sugar being the government's latest bogeyman and our obsession with 'super drinks' such as coconut water and now birch sap water, we're shying away from old fashioned fruit juices.

But I fear we're in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.

It seems to be reported as some kind of revelation in the press that a glass of orange juice contains sugar.  There's screaming headlines about some juices containing more sugar than a can of coke.

Fruit juice - the kind from pure fruit, with no added anything does contain sugar.  It contains naturally occurring fructose that is present in the oranges or apples or whatever fruit it happens to be.  How do you think fruit tastes sweet ? Fairy dust?

Personally I'm a firm believer in everything in moderation - hell, even water can kill you if you drink too much.  I am happy to include pure fruit juice in my family's diet as part of a balanced intake.

Read beyond the headlines and you'll see the young child who had to have milk teeth removed because of tooth decay was drinking loads of fruit juice.  Drinking it all day long, through a sippy cup that was pretty much permanently against the teeth all day long.

There seems to be a media witch-hunt against fruit juice at the moment.  But honestly, there's a hell of a lot worse food and drinks out there with all kinds of added sweeteners and artificial nasties.  I know what I'd prefer to drink.

Unlike a lot of squashes and fizzy drinks, pure juice does actually contain a lot of good stuff.

I'm not suggesting you drink gallons of the stuff.  Just one (very) small glass of 150 ml of orange juice (to put that into perspective, most kids cartons contain 200ml of liquid) will count as one of your 5 a day and gives essential vitamin C, folate and potassium.  This amount of juice will typically provide around half of your daily requirement of vitamin C.   

One small glass folks. That's all.  Drinking one glass of fruit juice will not suddenly make all your teeth fall out or instantly inflate your ass to the morbidly obese section of the scales.  Despite what the Daily Mail says.

Everything in moderation.

With studies showing that only around 10% of pre-teen children are reaching their 5-a-day, then pure fruit juice is a very useful way of upping their fruit and veg quota.  The vitamin C is also essential for girls as they reach puberty as it helps with the body's absorption of iron.

Now, orange juice can be bad for teeth.  Of course it can.  Both the naturally occurring sugar and the acid in the juice can affect dental health.  Some simple ways to reduce the impact on teeth are not giving children juice in a bottle with a teat or in a sippy cup.  You can also dilute pure fruit juice with water before drinking. If you're having fruit juice as part of your breakfast, brush your teeth first.  This will remove all the bacteria that the acid reacts to.  And brushing teeth at least an hour after drinking juice will prevent any damage to the enamel of the teeth which can become softened by acid.  

It's true to say also, that not all juices are equal.  Those containing 'bits' or cloudy juices are better than the smooth variety because they will also provide some fibre from the fruit.

Citrus fruits such as orange and grapefruit contain a much higher amount of vitamin C than apple or grape juice.

So, choose your juice wisely, go for citrus fruits, no added sugar but extra 'bits' and drink just one small glass as part of a healthy, balanced diet.

Disclosure: I attended a round-table event with Tropicana to discuss the merits of fruit juice as part of a healthy lifestyle.  It confirmed my pre-held beliefs on the subject.

Disney On Ice - Magical Ice Festival (New Frozen dates now added)

Pssst.  Got an Elsa-mad small person running around your house busting out 'Let it Go' at full volume?  Olaf-obsessed infants?  Kids not interested in anything unless it's in that oh-so-frozen-particular shade of blue?

Well then you absolutely have to get yourself tickets for the brand new Disney On Ice extravaganza coming to the UK this Spring.

The Magical Ice Festival will be the first Disney on Ice show to feature Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven from the blockbuster Frozen.

Seriously, could any other Disney film be better translated into an ice performance?  It's just a match made in Disneyland.

Join hosts Mickey and Minnie, along with other characters including Ariel, Rapunzel and Belle for this high-tempo, all-singing, all-dancing performance.

We saw the 100 years of Magic show over Christmas so we can't wait to see Elsa and Anna on the ice.

Tickets are selling super-fast, but there's new dates just been added for London, Cardiff and Birmingham and tickets for the additional Birmingham date go on sale today so grab them while you can.

New dates added:

Genting Arena, Birmingham 

·       Wednesday, April 1, 7pm performance

SE Arena, Wembley, London 

·       Wednesday, April 22, 7pm performance

Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff (29 April – 3 May):

·       Friday, May 1, 11am performance

Disney On Ice presents Magical Ice Festival is appearing across the UK from 11th March - 17th May 2015 in Aberdeen, Liverpool, Glasgow, Birmingham, London, Cardiff, Nottingham and Leeds. See www.disneyonice.co.uk for ticket details and show times.


Check out our review of Disney On Ice 100 Years of Magic

For Frozen fans, see my Frozen inspired party ideas

Recipe ideas for your leftover Christmas booze

'Leftover alcohol?' I hear you cry.  'What leftover alcohol?'

Well, bear with me, I'm sure we've all done it.  Picked up a bottle of Aunt Maud's favourite tipple in case she comes to visit over the festivities. Bought bottles of spirits you've never heard of, perhaps you've even got a cupboard full of Snowballs?

You can either leave them gathering dust in your drinks cabinet til next year(ooh get you with your drinks trolley), or you can get 'em open and slosh them into one of these delicious recipes.

Almond, Apricot and Amaretto Tart.

Crunchy toasted almonds on top of moist boozy frangipane - what's not to love?

Gin Sling Cupcakes.

The perfect way to welcome the warmer seasons ahead of us, hints of elderflower, cucumber and gin make this a perfect combo from Cheetahs in My Shoes.

Bailey's Christmas Luxe Bundt with Bailey's Buttercream, Ginger and Toffee Icing

Woah, this is a seriously good looking cake from Belleau Kitchen.  Who doesn't have a bottle of Bailey's knocking about after Crimbo?  I can't think of a more delightful way to consume it.

Lemon Vodka Cake.

If you're not man enough to drink vodka neat, how about adding it to this light, citrus cake for a grown-up teatime treat?

Dark and Stormy Cocktail Cupcakes

Using dark rum, these lightly spiced, gingery cupcakes from Fuss Free Flavours look devilishly good.

Bailey's Chocolate Orange Cheesecake

More Bailey's, this time in a rich cheesecake topped with chocolate orange segments from All You Need is Love and Cake (I say all you need is this cheesecake personally).

Bailey's Chocolate Cupcakes

Frugal Family has a whole post of ideas for leftover Bailey's cream, and just look at these glossy little babies!

Cranberry Vodka Muffins

If you're not quite ready to give up on Christmas yet, then these Cranberry infused vodka muffins are perfect - just not sure you'd get away with them for a healthy breakfast!  From The Crazy Kitchen.

Snowball Cupcakes with Advocaat Frosting

Remember those Snowballs I mentioned?  Well Diary of a Frugal Family turns that most peculiar drink into something altogether totally delectable looking.

Chocolate Choux Buns with Bailey's, Maltesers and White Chocolate Mousse

This recipe will not only use up your Bailey's but helpfully any leftover chocolate you may still have *whistles*.  A very grown up take on the traditional eclair from Mummy Mishaps.

Oreo and Bailey's Chocolate Petit Fours

Mummy Mishaps does it again with these divine little bites, so small you're surely allowed more?

Bailey's and Malteser Ice Cream

And ya know, if you're looking for something to serve up with these beauties, you could do a lot worse than Mummy Mishaps' boozy ice cream.

Summer Cake with Pimms

If all this is getting a bit too unhealthy for you, how about piling on ALL of your five a day atop this super luxurious cake from Belleau Kitchen.  Yes, it's a 'summer' cake, but we all know we can get soft fruits all your round now.

If baking's not your bag, then you could try out these romantic Valentine's cocktails from The Ana Mum Diary.  Sure to get pulses racing!

Chocolate Guinness Cake Pops

And hold on to your Guinness for St Patrick's Day to make up these rich, moist cake pops with suitably green decorations.

Which is your favourite?  Have you got any half opened bottles lurking around?

Disney On Ice - 100 Years of Magic review

A while before Christmas I booked us tickets to go and see the Disney On Ice Show as an extra Christmas treat.  We went down to the O2 at Greenwich between Christmas and New Year and with a stopover in a hotel, made a mini holiday of it.  It was a great way to break up the Christmas holiday and I remember the magic of being taken to Disney on Ice when I was little over 30 years ago, so I thought this would be some great memory making.

The show itself is a montage of many different hit Disney films, stretching back to Pinocchio and right up to modern times with Toy Story and The Incredibles.  I guess the idea is to offer something for everyone, but I can't help thinking their choice of stories and characters missed the mark for the majority of the audience.  I can think of more loved films to have included, and as a parent I was too old to remember many of them, and the younger audience (mostly 3-6 year olds dressed in Disney Princess dresses) were too young to recall the likes of Mulan and Aladdin - I heard lots of children around me asking their parents "who's that?".

However, you didn't need to be familiar with all the shows to enjoy the spectacle and become enthralled by the skill of the skaters.

The costumes were spectacular.  I have no idea how some of the dancers even stood up in them, let alone perform on the ice.  I spent a lot of time staring at feet to see if they actually were wearing skates because the boots and blades blended in so well with the costumes.  Some of the animal characters who were two people to an outfit astounded us in their synchronisation.

The show is hosted by everyone's favourite mice, Mickey and Minnie who are greeted with smiles and cheers every time they appear.  It opens with an Aladdin spectacular and a whole rink full of Genie's which is a captivating start to the performance.

Then we have fabulous costumes in the Finding Nemo section, with the smoke breathing Bruce the shark and bubbles falling from the sky to make us feel under the sea.  The costumes of all the underwater creatures were just incredible.

Next we moved on to some princess action with Beauty and the Beast and a moving rendition of the touching tale, which moved seamlessly into a whole gallery of famous princesses with their partners all dancing in pairs.  There was Cinderella, Jasmine, Ariel, Snow White and Pocahontas, and this was Ruby's favourite part.  So romantic!  I'm no Jayne Torville so I can't tell you the technical names but the lifts and jumps these guys did where breath-taking.

We had a quick zip through Toy Story with Woody, Jessie and Buzz and a whole platoon of green 'plastic' soldiers before ending the first half with a tribute to the famous Disney 'It's a Small World' ride. Again, lots of the children around me were a bit confused about this, but it was spectacular dancing, illumination and national costumes from around the world.  It's only now looking at the picture I'm realising quite how phallic those arches look, I can't say I noticed it at the time!

The interval came at about the right time for youngsters and it was time to get fleeced for merchandise and refreshments.  This was my biggest grumble about the show.  I know you've got to expect high prices for official merchandise, but let me warn you, if you want to buy drinks and refreshments, get them outside the arena itself.  Everything came with something else so it wasn't possible to just buy a drink.  Ruby wanted some candy floss, but the seller insisted you had to purchase it with a plastic gold crown with Mickey ears, and for that a bag of candy floss set us back the princely sum of £9.  She also wanted a drink and the slush she chose had to be bought in a grotesque flashing light-up cup with a Mickey gloved-hand straw and scoop, and that robbed us of a further £11.  Seriously, I've never paid so much for a bag of sugar and air and some frozen flavoured water in my entire life!

Anyway, after being relieved of the weight in our wallets, we sat down to the second half.

It reconvened with Pinoccio which I'm not sure was the right choice.  I think at leaf half the audience had no clue who Jiminy Cricket was and it wasn't really up-tempo enough.  When we moved on to Mulan I thought we might be bored through that one too as it's not a film we're familiar with.  But I couldn't have been more wrong.  It actually turned out to be my favourite part of the show with brilliant dancing, a tension building battle scene, an incredible Chinese dragon, great pyrotechnics and a very clever costume change for Mulan right in the middle of the ice.  I'm really not sure how they managed that so seamlessly, it reminded me of a magic show.  I was so enthralled I totally forgot to take any pictures.

Finally we had appearances from charters from The Lion King and a slap-stick routine from The Incredibles which left us on just the right note - all smiling and giggling.

All the characters returned to the ice for the finale and to wave a sad goodbye until next time.  We've already decided that seeing the Frozen special is a MUST this Easter.  Check here for tickets to Disney on Ice Magical Ice Festival.

One of the most surreal sights is to see hundreds and hundreds of mini Disney characters spilling out from the O2 and roads jammed with little girls in princess dresses and boys in Woody outfits, but after fighting our way through the crowds we headed to our hotel, The Holiday Inn Express which was only a 10 minute stroll away from the arena.  It was the perfect location for us and we had a very comfortable family room for the 3 of us for £90.  We all had a great night's sleep and with free breakfast thrown in I was pretty impressed with the hotel.

That evening we hopped on the bus using our travelcards and headed to Greenwich village, one of my favourite places in London.  We had a fabulous Italian meal at Bianco 42, a small independent string of pizzerias.  A rather lovely chilled Orvieto and a delicious pizza, the place was cosy and the staff very friendly and attentive to children.

Greenwich is a fabulous place to spend the day, with plenty to do from exploring the Cutty Sark to the wonders of the Royal Observatory.  Enjoy the peace of the park and the spectacular views from the top of the hill, or mooch around the many independent shops and vintage boutiques around the market before catching the river boat into central London.  If you're planning a trip to the O2, it's definitely worth a stay over.

Disclosure: We paid for all our tickets ourselves and any views expressed are personal.

For more reviews on the Disney On Ice show, check out Mari's World and Tired Mummy Of Two to see what they thought.

Magpie Monday - A Clean Sweep

Happy thrifty new year to you!

As promised before Christmas, Magpie Monday is back on the first Monday of each month, sharing my second-hand finds and helping us discover other's treasure and beautiful new blogs through the linky, so do please hook up any pre-loved items you've rescued lately.

The new year is often a time of resolutions, promises to do and be better.  I'm not huge on resolutions, but I am going to make a concerted effort to live by the doctrine of the great William Morris - have nothing in your home you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Incidentally, we visited the William Morris Gallery just before Christmas and had a fabulous day out, if you're in London pop along to Walthamstow and go see for yourself.

Anyway, I digress.  The annual-panicked-clear-up-the-house-before-Christmas - which generally consists of cramming everything into boxes and stashing them into the loft or garage - proved to me that I have waaaaaay too much stuff.  I must be more disciplined and stop buying things just because they're a bargain.  Unless I absolutely HAVE to have it, it's staying on the shop shelf, and that includes charity shops.  I know, I've said it before, but this is the year of the garage conversion and pretty soon I won't have anywhere left to hide things so I'm going to have to try.

These beauties were bought at a jumble sale before Christmas, and even with my new self-imposed rule, I think I'd have still bought them. Especially as they were only 50p each!

The little dustpan and brush is for sweeping crumbs from the table.  Our table tends to be covered more in splashes and spills than delicate little crumbs so I doubt that it will be used for it's intended purpose.   However, with a small child about, there's always little accidents to sweep up, so I'm sure it will come in handy - see useful AND beautiful.

The little silver plate dish was also too pretty to leave behind, and I'm sure you'll see it cropping up in a blog photo or two in the future.

Incidentally, Christmas and January sale shopping reinforced to me the fact that I abhor 'normal' shops.  I find them so uninspiring with their rows and rows of identical products.  The only thing I've found in one lately to make my heart sing was these tiny little fairy dust stoppered pots of glitter.  Only £1 for 8 from The Works.  Who knew you could be so happy for such little money?!

Please join me and link up your second-hand finds so I can pop over and say hi.  Grab the badge and join the linky.

See you back here on 2nd February - happy thrifting.

    
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