Here goes my blogging virginity...

So far this year, I've done so very well at sticking to keeping a diary. I'm so bladdy forgetful that I need some way to keep myself in check, and at least I might remember everyone's birthdays (...maybe). It is a whole third of the way through the year, and i'm still going strong with old red! (ok, I admit it, I didn't start keeping a diary until at least halfway through February but I'm trying).


My diary success has led me to the belief that I might be able to actually keep up-to-date with/maintain a blog!


No. Really. I can do it! I know I can!


And the most exciting bit/worst bit, its there is so much I want to say but don't even know where to start! So I'll go gently...




This weekend just gone has been MENTAL! 
It was Stef's birthday celebrations to begin with. And the sun decided to make an early summer appearance, hitting 21 degrees!


To mark the occasion, Ella and I set about baking on the sly, which was pretty difficult because Stef can be very suspicious at times. Of course we made the old faithful, Chocolate Beetroot Cake.

[image and recipe courtesy of What Katie Ate]

I forgot to take a picture...and it was our best one yet. Hrmph.

The cake takes about somewhere between an hour and an hour+half to bake, so we made biscuits spelling out Stef's name as well.

Don't they look fab?! Tasted nice, but were rather rock hard...

...and we did make a bit of a mess in the process.


As for the celebrations, I don't have any photo's as of yet, but there are a few pictures from the daily celebrations. After a mega drinkathon/barbecuing session c'est la Friday eve, we were all a bit fragile on Saturday, but staying indoors and wallowing was in no way an option is this lovely Surrey sunshine. So, I made the best of what you can call our garden and started reading my new book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, which I will tell you about in due course when I get further into it.

The sunshine actually makes our garden look quite quaint. I'm really going to be sad to leave it. I had such amazing ideas about what to do with it when we moved in two years ago but nothing failed to materialise, sadly. (check out the beginnings of my tan!) 


As ardent sun-worshippers, we even followed the sun round to the front of the house, much to the annoyance of passing cars...

does sunshine make you seem a bit ghetto?


Sunday, still sun shining, Ella and I stumbled upon a new deli/italian coffee shop in Farnham. Morello's. After having a bit of a snoot around what they had to offer, we bought a pastry each and settled in the park before heading off to Frensham. Oh how I miss the beach when it's not there. And Frensham isn't even a real beach! Its an inland lake with a man made beach, but it did the job nicely for a lazy sunday afternoon and a few games of frisbee.

and breathe.




that was a much longer post that I had planned. and there is still so much more. but i'm going to leave it there for now follow up with another post in the morning...(clearly waaaaay past my bed time.)


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