Oh yum, what a perfectly delicious weekend!
Edward was away last week on a course so it was even nicer than usual to hang out with him this weekend! We went to the cinema on Friday to see Iron Man 3 which I enjoyed a lot. Saturday morning I was teaching and got home just in time for the sun to make a rather shaky appearance.
We hot-footed it to Rickmansworth for a quiet amble along the canal followed by cake and coffee and reading books in a cafe.
Everywhere is suddenly covered in all sorts of tiny wild flowers. I love the wonky imperfections, the colours, the way they are hidden like tiny jewels amongst the grasses. Sadly I think I am still about six years old in my head, they make me think of fairies and I like to imagine the different outfits teeny tiny winged creatures might make with them. They heark back to childhood and sweet posies of tiny flowers carefully gathered to bring home as treasures from a walk. Here are just a few!
Dead Nettle (looks like Nettles but is much prettier and doesn't sting)
Ground Ivy (doesn't look anything like Ivy, how confusing)
Forget-Me-Not
Home again home again for a lovely evening of slobbing about; takeaway, films, pyjamas all included: fab.
We went to look at St Albans on Sunday which was lovely,
the sun came out, we had a picnic by the Cathedral (which was absolutely beautiful inside and completely ancient and full of history),
a wander round the town
(who needs ASBOs?)
and delicious cake to round it off (hmm, only just noticed quite how heavily cake seems to have featured in our weekend...).
Today was completely glorious, sunny and warm and perfect for pottering about. We had breakfast outside, then washed the car and tidied the garden. The chicks had their very first outing in the garden and completely loved it (lots of dust baths and lying about in the sun).
I weeded the fruit bed and cut the edge with the cutty thing which makes it look very smart.
I also planted some seeds but they are very dull to look at at the moment, so I will show you when they grow (notice 'when' and not 'if'...). Now is the perfect time to plant things, any space will do, be it an ice cream tub on the window-sill, a window box, a grow bag or an allotment - get things growing!
More fiddling about and a spot of baking before dropping Edward off at the station.
(Experimental Rhubarb Meringue Pie...
which needs a bit of tweaking! Completely delicious and frighteningly disappeary-into-our-mouths-very-quickly-y, but also quite dribbley, oops.)
I now have that lovely hot skin feeling having spent almost the whole day outside, and even some very faint tan lines, hurrah!
I also have the fabbest husband ever - when I got home there was a surprise waiting for me! A present!
Everywhere is suddenly covered in all sorts of tiny wild flowers. I love the wonky imperfections, the colours, the way they are hidden like tiny jewels amongst the grasses. Sadly I think I am still about six years old in my head, they make me think of fairies and I like to imagine the different outfits teeny tiny winged creatures might make with them. They heark back to childhood and sweet posies of tiny flowers carefully gathered to bring home as treasures from a walk. Here are just a few!
Dead Nettle (looks like Nettles but is much prettier and doesn't sting)
Ground Ivy (doesn't look anything like Ivy, how confusing)
Forget-Me-Not
Home again home again for a lovely evening of slobbing about; takeaway, films, pyjamas all included: fab.
We went to look at St Albans on Sunday which was lovely,
the sun came out, we had a picnic by the Cathedral (which was absolutely beautiful inside and completely ancient and full of history),
a wander round the town
(who needs ASBOs?)
and delicious cake to round it off (hmm, only just noticed quite how heavily cake seems to have featured in our weekend...).
Today was completely glorious, sunny and warm and perfect for pottering about. We had breakfast outside, then washed the car and tidied the garden. The chicks had their very first outing in the garden and completely loved it (lots of dust baths and lying about in the sun).
I weeded the fruit bed and cut the edge with the cutty thing which makes it look very smart.
I also planted some seeds but they are very dull to look at at the moment, so I will show you when they grow (notice 'when' and not 'if'...). Now is the perfect time to plant things, any space will do, be it an ice cream tub on the window-sill, a window box, a grow bag or an allotment - get things growing!
More fiddling about and a spot of baking before dropping Edward off at the station.
(Experimental Rhubarb Meringue Pie...
which needs a bit of tweaking! Completely delicious and frighteningly disappeary-into-our-mouths-very-quickly-y, but also quite dribbley, oops.)
I now have that lovely hot skin feeling having spent almost the whole day outside, and even some very faint tan lines, hurrah!
I also have the fabbest husband ever - when I got home there was a surprise waiting for me! A present!
I have tasted the second version of the Experimental Rhubarb Pie - it was completely delicious!! Thank you, Chef Olivia. xxx
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