It's the husband's birthday. He has the whole week off, I have three days off and we've started off well today. Anthony got lovely presents from family with more to come and was properly excited by it all and has been enjoying by them all. We decided to have a super chilled day and stayed in until we went to a pub called The Rockstone which is a ( Read more... )

I can’t believe it’s been over a week since my birthday. Life has been packed and I finally have a few minutes to recap everything that I got to enjoy, hurrah. So we went down to Cornwall for my birthday - the first time I’ve spent my birthday with my parents in quite a few years. My brother is also home from abroad so it’s the first time I’ve ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to the wonderful rusty_armour my oldest online friend and one of my very favourite people. I hope you have a tremendous day which includes delicious cake :) You deserve a wonderful celebration and so much fun. I am hoping to post a present here for you within the next few days so keep a look out :) Happy birthday!!

It’s been one of those exhausting but satisfying weekends. Anthony’s Mum’s (also known as Mum(2) )birthday was in January - we got her tickets for a Rugby World Cup game in September and the time was nigh. She’s a huge supporter of Wales - she has Welsh blood and went to university in Cardiff - and it was good to give her something she really ( Read more... )

Anthony’s birthday was a resounding success. This past Sunday, he turned thirty-one. He got thoroughly spoiled presents-wise, thankfully everything from everyone arrived in time and he was delighted with it all He’s got a ton of audio plays because he lives off them, they help him sleep and he takes his iPod everywhere.

Then it was off to the ( Read more... )

It's so good to have some time off of work. This is the first week I've had off since March - and it's really nice to just relax and do some jobs around the flat. I've bought another of Anthony's birthday presents and ordered more, I've done ironing and washing up. I've read and listened to podcasts and watched Wimbledon ( Read more... )

It’s summer in the UK. There’s scorching sun outside - heatwave warning, people, slap on the suncream and be sensible please - and Wimbledon, the best tennis competition in the world is upon us. I may have explained this before but my mother is a Wimbledon fanatic. Every year she takes time off work during the second week so that she can watch the ( Read more... )

The heat has gone up here which has meant lots of windows open in our flat and summer wardrobes being sported. I decided to make fridge cake this past weekend which was probably a daft idea seeing as it’ll melt pretty quick once out of the fridge but it came out nicely and is rather rich so I cut it into small chunks for me and Anthony. I keep it ( Read more... )

So the last baking I did in 2014 was this delicious fruit cake. It's a recipe I hadn't tried before, one that didn't require eggs and was really good. There's cinnamon and all-spice in it, which really brought a strong flavour to it. It's the first time I've cooked a fruit cake in years and I was thrilled that the dried fruit didn't all sink to the ( Read more... )

This past weekend featured one of the most fun days I've had in a while. A family gathering was held to celebrate Anthony's 30th birthday - as we were away in Ireland on the actual day, his family wanted to have a celebration afterwards that they could attend too. So we all gathered at Mum-in-Law's house, there was Anthony's sister and her partner ( Read more... )