Last Week…

I am back… from a great weekend.

I love when I have done something different to share, I am sure you all get bord of hearing about another chilled weekend at home!

Friday I had a long day at my day job before checking in at riverstation, after finding the inbox nice and tidy I found I had an hour to myself and so I was treated to a glass of wine by a friend and I sat and flicked through a magazine and had some quiet time (first chance all week).

I then went to join my friend Rachel for her final Bristol goodbye meal before she jets off to Asia… I ate delicious scallops with apple and drank too much wine (drowning my sorrows, she better come back!).

   

Saturday I finally got my butt back to the gym, much-needed I can tell you before eating a naughty/healthy lunch of bacon (a birthday present – the BEST bacon I have ever had) and avocado on seeded bread… while Biggie lazed around on the floor.

  

Then that night my Husband had a boxing match, he had been training for 10 weeks to learn how to box with 31 other guys… then they matched them up for a proper match. So me and some friends went to cheer him on.

I wore my wedding shoes for luck (didn’t work).

The set up was crazy, like a proper match… it must have been so nerve-wracking for the guys, it was bad enough for me. Adam was second and I was shaking like a leaf when he walked out, my heart was beating so hard I thought it was going to burst through my chest.

I am so proud of him, its such an achievement and I think he’ll do it again next year… now he knows a little more than he did he’ll win next time for sure.

I also drank far too much wine.

  

We enjoyed lovely winter weather, with an amazing sunset on Saturday night and beautiful clear blue skies on Sunday morning… 

  

Sunday my Husband took me to London for the night for a late birthday treat… 

  

We went for a mooch around Covent Garden, where I spent most time in my favourite store Kate Spade… sometimes I think they make their lines just me for I love everything so much! 

  

  

Then we went for a roast at Hawksmoor. 

  

It was easily the best classic roast dinner we have had. I followed up with salted caramel rolos. Amaze. 

  

Then, having eaten a huge roast we went to check into our hotel and lie down for an hour…

We stayed at Citizen M in Southwark. It’s very good and great value due to the rooms being smaller – which London rooms generally are anyway.

I’ll share more from the hotel soon…

  

  

We had tickets for Crazy Horse so walked from our hotel along the river… 

  

Before going to watch those crazy ladies dance. I loved the neon lights…

  

It was so much fun!

It is pretty weird and very avant-garde… it is French after all. I loved the fun cheeky numbers the best (Baby Buns!)… and Kelly Brook was very funny with her Miss Bisou.

  

Then we went and had cocktails by the fire back at the hotel before snacking on ice cream in our pod bed. Oh my apple pie is the shizzle. 

  

On Monday we had a very lazy morning… eating croissants and granola with cappuccinos in bed before making our way back to Covent Garden to have lunch with my father-in-law… via jewellery swooning and the Chanel pop up… 

  

Also waving to the Queen and her corgies… and loving this pop up kitchen store. 

  

Then we went for hamburgers at Byron…

 

After drinking far too much all weekend all I can handle was a real lemonade… but I loved the pale ale label on my husbands beer.

   

The burgers are so good… I had the Mo, which had cheese and pickles… After beef two days in a row I was stuffed… and dreading the tube.

I do not know how Londoners do it every day… why so pushy and angry? Oh yeh the tube!

Luckily my Father-in-law let us borrow his driver and we got chauffeured to Paddington past all the sites… where I actually waved to the Queen.  I wish I could have this all the time!

  

Amazing weekend, big thanks to Adam for an amazing birthday.

xx

The Weekend…

Happy Monday everyone…

Did you have a nice weekend?

Mine was busy but really great.

Friday we had a wedding… our Bride and Groom arrived on the same boat that I had at mine… Patience.

  

After an extremely busy week I revelled in a quiet night at home with raspberry gin and tonics, pretzels and cuddles with Biggs.

  

Saturday was a trip to London to visit Lady Loves Cake for a girls day out… an early train and a cappuccino got me to London in time for breakfast…

  

At Bea’s Diner at the Maltby Street Market where we ate home made bagels with cream cheese and salmon (me) and maple bacon (Katherine). My god that maple bacon was insane… I really made a mistake not having that.

Followed by a walk along the river by Tower Bridge, a feeble attempt to justify more eating shortly…

  

Then we mooched around Knightsbridge for a few hours, making Katherine be a complete tourist diving into Ladurée at Harrods for salted caramel macrons and a coconut milkshake  before more walking though Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park…

  

And back to Knightsbridge for a Russian afternoon tea at Mari Vanna, which was amazing. They bring you lots of bread and radishes with a salty oniony butter … and we ordered blini’s with jams and the afternoon tea was huge.

More blini’s (mini) with salmon caviar and cream cheese, wrapped blini’s with more cream cheese and little puffed up filled doughy balls, plus herring on rye with beetroot and that’s just the savouries.

We had chocolate cake, some kind of meringue with custard and the honey cake… get the honeycake!

Also the tea was lovely, and the Russian bartender sent us Champagne cocktails. Amazing service.

  

After which we needed to walk some more… heading to Covent Garden so I could visit the Chanel Pop Up and spree on nail varnish (I recommend you going here at the start of your day, you can get your make up done)…

  

Finished off by skipping a planned dinner… so not needed, and after a quick stop at Somerset House to spy on all the fashion pack we headed to Bob Bob Ricard for cocktails and french fries.

It’s my new favourite place and I need to get there for dinner really soon, it’s so glamorous and not only was the service faultless, it was so friendly. So rare.

  

I cannot thank Lady Loves Cake enough for such a lush day, love that I have a friend in London to take me to all these amazing places…

And I cannot wait to show her around Bristol which will be our next adventure.

Sunday I had another wedding, these double weekends are killing me, I was so tired but it was low key and lovely. I really do have the best job!

Then Sunday night was spend drinking white wine and watching Sons of Anarchy with my Husband… nothing better than a cosy night in when the weather is drawing in.

Have you seen Sons? I am obsessed!