Easter is right around the corner and if you’re like many people, the ideal way to spend it is with your family and friends, enjoying a delicious meal. In our hectic lifestyles, we rarely have the time to enjoy a home cooked meal, making the holidays even more special. Taking the time to cook for your loved ones is a perfect way to show them how much they mean to you.

Why not try this delicious “slow cooked” recipe (click here for recipe card) from the award-winning Borough Market Cookbook: Meat & Fish for Roast Leg of Lamb with White Beans and Kale.

Enjoy! And please do tell us what you think of it. We shall be posting more recipes soon.

A truly fantastic achievement, the Mission:Explore Food crowd-funded project has reached its goal of raising £15,000 from the general public. Tonight it has been achieved, a tremendous testament to the quality and importance of this project. But just because the target of £15,000 has been reached does not mean that if you haven’t signed up to the project yet that you can’t. Mission:Explore Food won the PleaseFundUs Creative Grants Award so please join us and help develop the project further. Thank you all for your support. http://www.pleasefund.us/projects/missionexplore-food

Wondering what to get this Christmas for the person who has everything? Remember the children’s classic you read a thousand times when you were young?

What if Goodnight Moon was about saying goodbye to another Moon? Say goodnight to Keith, his drumsticks, his pile of sick, and more. Goodnight Keith Moon is a hilarious parody of the Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd children’s classic Goodnight Moon, this book will appeal to fans of rock music and every parent who has read it to their children. Classic rock aficionados won’t get fooled, they’ll spot a busload of Who references, from the pinball game in the corner to the ghost of Cass Elliott.

Living up to our name at Can of Worms Goodnight Keith Moon is a Word of Mouth Press release: Books Worth Talking About – tell a Friend!

This is the word of mouth from The Huffington Press:

“Everyone’s favorite children’s book about a notorious drummer who died of a drug overdose. Wait, that’s not what it was about? eel, authors Bruce Worden and Clare Cross have updated the classic story to revolve around the death of The Who’s Keith Moon with hilarious results. Brimming with rock references.”

To order copies in time to stuff your stockings go here.

Well if you missed our wonderful Mission:Explore activities at the Glastonbury Festival then get your clogs on and head over to the Latitude Festival. This year we have been commissioned to produce the map for the Children’s Area containing the wonderful illustrations of the maestro of inkymess, Tom Morgan-Jones. Copies will be given out when you arrive as well as being printed in the Latitude Programme. There are some missions included on the back of the map, but if you can’t wait click here to download our special Latitude Festival Booklet.

Hello! We had a great day on the Southbank in London launching Mission:Explore balloons. (PLEASE NOTE our balloons and tags are all biodegradable – breaking down as quickly as oak leaves).

This is where we’ll be mapping all the discovered balloons.

If you’ve found a balloon, let us know:

where you found it, and when and what number is on the tag.

Let us know your contact details as well (we promise not to sell it or spam you!) and we’ll add it to the map. If your balloon wins one of the prizes, we’ll send you some delightful goodies. Send these details over to us at explore at canofwormsenterprises dot co dot uk.

While you’re here, it would be terribly rude not to introduce ourselves. We’re the publishers of Mission: Explore, a series of books that National Geographic called “bold, cool, exciting …and just plain fun!”. The aim of the books to to get children exploring our world and seeing it in a different way. The authors, The Geography Collective, have a brilliant website where you can find exciting missions all over the UK – there’s even an iPhone app! Check it out here.

You can buy any of the books at a special discounted rate using the button below: