Everyday Life

 

1. Bedtime reading
2. Matt's home made banana cake 
3. Date night to the theatre
4. Afternoon 'me time' with a book and freshly baked marmalade muffins
5. After work walks through the park in the sunshine together

London Weekend

 

 

Last weekend we headed up to London for a couple of days and it was so much fun. I've been working more weekends recently so Matt and I haven't had much time together and the number of adventures have declined massively. We really needed this weekend together! We met up with his family who we haven't seen in much too long and had a good catch up. The weekend included good food, visits to the V&A and the British Museum and lots of walks through the city. To be honest it was just so nice to be somewhere new with Matt. I'm not sure when I'll get a weekend off again but we've already booked our next adventure, a getaway to Belfast in June to visit friends.

Determination

It's been so long since I regularly updated this blog but I really feel that now is the time for me to throw myself into documenting our little life. I've got some ideas of how I'll keep myself on track this time and I've started changing the design up a bit so that it feels more 'me'. I really hope this is it and that I stick at it because I love taking photos and having this little corner of the internet to keep all of our memories.

I'm determined to make this work...

2013 Book Challenge

I really enjoyed my book challenge last year and it felt so good to accomplish my goal so I've decided to do it again this year. I've kept the same target as last year because I found that 50 was a stretch without forcing me to put off reading books I wanted to due to length.

I know that it's already May but I did start at the beginning of the year and I'm already on 21 books mainly due to some intensive holiday reading in January. I'm not going to do a catch up of this years challenge on here as I have so many other things to catch up on on this blog. You can find what I've read so far over on Goodreads and I'll be doing a weekly update from here on out. I really enjoyed doing these last year and I hope you liked reading them.

Everyday Life

 

 

1. Cold nights lead to a dinosaur in a microwave
2. Board games and beer with the husband
3. The best toasted sandwich in the making
4. Valentine's surprise from me to him
5. My new favourite photo of Matt
6. My first red velvet cake

Wednesday Challenge Update 21.11.12

Image from Goodreads

A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin

From Goodreads:
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King’s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world...

I was unsure whether to read this instalment or not as Matt and I are watching Game of Thrones but I just couldn't resist. Then I got disheartened part way through as it seemed to be taking me a long time to read it. I was really enjoying it but I'd got used to a faster pace of reading. I think part of the problem was that I was reading it on the Kindle so I couldn't see the size of the book. Once I'd looked it up and found 'Storm of Swords' word count was over 400K I stopped feeling bad that it was taking me a couple of weeks. 
I'm really enjoying seeing how the different story lines are developing for each character and how they are slowly interlinking. I think I'll read a couple of other different books though before I read the next instalment in the song of ice and fire saga. 


This is the first book I've read since I finished the challenge and I'm still finding myself just as eager to pick a new one up straight away. As always you can keep up with what I'm currently reading on my Goodreads page or look at all of the past weeks of the challenge here.

Being Outside

On holiday we tried to spend as much time as we could outside. I find that being out in nature is the best thing possible for my soul. If I'm sad or stressed a walk through the park is really the only cure for me. To spend all day on walks through the forest and then the evening chatting with good friends was perfect for me. My heart feels full again and I feel ready to conquer our day to day problems. Just looking at these pictures makes me smile and I'm excited for our next adventure.