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I would love to be able to tell you all about my fantastic week but I have just too much to do! Here is a list to tide you over until I find a mo to get some pictures online:

  • Surprised Rich with a weekend in Madrid with our very good friends, Caroline and Lee. Had a blast.
  • Met my brother in London for lunch on Monday – it was his birthday.
  • Had the girls from Sew Make Believe, Caroline, Lauren and Helen, over for movie night.  We watched Australia, drank rosé wine, ate yummy cupcakes and cried our eyes out. And swooned. Did we swoon…
  • Went out for a very fancy dinner at Mallory Court for my birthday on Tuesday with rich. Ate a lot of cheese.
  • Baked a birthday cake using Caroline’s recipe.  It was a success!!!!
  • Toured Villa Park on Wednesday – another birthday surprise for Rich who is not 30 (hee hee).

Have you noticed all the birthdays? Yowza I am tired!

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So my course is now finsished until October. I have recovered from the unnecessary tutor-induced stress regarding the receipt of my final assignment. I have packed away my books (kinda) and the sun is shining. Now I just have June to deal with and everything will be, as the kids (used to) say, gravy.

June is our busiest time at work with a deadline for all our claims being the end of the month. While May was busy, it didn’t have the accompanying stress of knowing we only have a couple of weeks to get everything done.

This weekend was awesome because of the surprisingly fantastic weather. We had a BBQ with our friends. We watched Kung Fu Panda and The Happening. I sewed in the garden (hand-quilting my friend’s baby quilt). And we saw this sign which made us both smile (and take a picture).

hammertime

July is going to be awesome too. It’s our birthday month (and its a biggie for ricardo – he is turning 30!) so there will be much celebration and libation.

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Hi all.  I have been pretty busy of late.  This is what I have been up to:

And this week is not really slowing down:

Tonight: Seeing Dirty Dancing in the West End with my good friend from where I used to work, Zoe.
Tomorrow night: Going to a Chocolate and Alcohol an Easter Special cookery demonstration by Jill Brand.
Thursday night: Seeing Death of a Salesman at the Bridge House Theatre in Warwick.
Saturday night: Going to another 30th birthday party

So I might not be around all that much.  Remember you can always catch up with my daily musings at Twitter.

Baking lite

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I told my mum I would whip up a batch of cookies for the Christmas fair in her village on Saturday but I wasn’t really feeling like starting from scratch so I made these for the first time:

I made the ‘Chocolate Chip’ ones and the ‘Chocolate Bean’ (ie Smarties) ones – I am not sure if they are really good enough to justify the washing up involved (the packs are about as expensive as buying them fresh made from the supermarket) but it was quite fun to make them, even if it was super easy.

I also got together some stuff for the stalls – games, books, ornaments – it feels good to have a clear out of things that are perfectly good but not wanted.  I am quite looking forward to all the Christmas build up.

Rich and I are going to Mildenhall for the weekend so that we can visit the Bury St. Edmunds Christmas Fayre which will get me in the Chrimbo mood.  Rich proposed to me in front of the Abbey Gate there at Christmas time so it will be nice to go back at this time of year.   We are even staying in the same hotel in Mildenhall although we couldn’t get the same suite (the Mallard Suite!) which is a pity since all those years ago, we had our own full size Christmas tree in our room.  I am sure the room we have instead will be equally lovely, though.  The hotel is not ultra-fancy but is has the nicest staff and beautiful surroundings.

Also, Mum and I have booked a day at Blenhiem Palace – we are missing the Living Crafts show but it will still be very festive.  I haven’t been to Blenheim since I was a child, even though I lived about 15 miles from it for 2 years and now work quite closely to it.  Well, I did go and see James Blunt there but that was in the gardens and I didn’t get to see anything of the house.  The home of Winston Churchill, it is beyond handsome.  It is a real English jewel.