I promise i will be a good girl if...

i can have one of these -

Thankyouverymuchyessir xx

Coffee Breath

Okay, I'm feeling much better today, or at least I am now.
I've had a right tizzy of a day, but I finished it off by eating a rather large slice of my first ever coffee and walnut cake, which i have written my first blog about here on my new blogspot! I know it looks a little bit wonky but it tastes scrummy.

Also, the mouse spent some time playing in a box, so that made me feel better too.

Thank you little mouse xxx

ps. just so you know we didn't drink a whole box of Co-Op Californian Chardonnay. I'm not really a Chardonnay girl.

Rainy days and Mondays

I had great plans for today.
Big plans.
I saw myself springing out of bed and squeezing every last drip out of my Monday.

As it stands i feel as heavy as cement and I have now moulded a good spot in my bed that has me at the correct height for computering and snoozing.

I am sick.
I hope, wish and prey that it's passing. It's not a natural state for me.
I'm not a good patient.
The melancholy hits in and nothing seems possible, nothing apart from the possibility of me spending the rest of my life in this state.

woe is me
xx

Hot Ribena

I don't feel very well. I'm having a hot ribena.

I've had a lovely day. A slow morning and a very long and lazy lunch with best friends, but i'm home now and i've come over all wobbly.

There could be several reasons for this 'un-well-ness', but i think mostly it's about the change in seasons, changes in life and making sure the changes i make, make me happy.

You can see one of those changes here.

To soothe my heart and ease my mind K's made chicken soup with beautiful Borlotti beans bought from the fabulous Farm Market. 

It's sometimes hard to remember how lucky i am. I am.

xx

TUESDAY.

I'm not sure what happened on Tuesday. I went into a baking frenzy. I can only imagine that I was trying desperately hard to distract my self from painting Susy John's house (the hall way is now a beautiful take on Lemon Meringue Pie!) and thinking about all the pre-school thinking I should be doing to prepare (WHAT THINKING?). I've also been inspired by the super The Great British Bake Off.

I made in order:

Starter for Sourdough Loaf - this hasn't yet got to the sweet bready smell, it is currently at the putrid sour smell stage!

Meringues

Macaroons - I should have read the recipe(this one is very good), very tasty but i didn't whisk the eggs before folding them in. K still loves them :)xxx

Small Wholemeal Loaf - soooooooooooooooo good with loads of butter and Grannie Annie's thick cut Orange Marmalade. yum.

Fresh egg pasta

Plum Tarts - they were a bit dry, but we smothered them in custard and they were perfect.

Mincemeat Mix

Lordy.

x

Ticking off the list

This has been starting at me for god knows how long

Last year i bought some beautiful vintage fabric and 'knocked' up a couple of cushion covers. For the last year the shoddy covers have been eating away at my sense of doing it right. So, i sucked it up and fixed them. Took me an hour. 

Currently trying to learn from my own teachings.... 

Crazy Bakey Lady

I've got the bug, i've got it bad.

As i type i have a batch of meringue and my first ever set of macaroons in the oven! The passion has been resurrected by my mammoth baking session last week where i baked 7 x 29cm beautiful sponges for our friends wedding.

2x Chocolate Cherry with Chocolate buttercream icing

2x Lemon Drizzle

1x Victoria Sponge

1x Orange & Ginger with a Sugar Crust

1x Plum, damson & Almond

We had to leave just after the ceremony so that we could get to our other wedding party that day! (don't ever do two weddings in one day, it's two too much).

But i hear nothing but good things about the cakes, especially the plum one.

You can see a few more pictures of my baking here.

I'll let you know how the macaroons turn out.

Over and out.

x

Caged

The Mouse does not like going in the basket :(