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(I wrote this last weekend but it's taken me until now to get the photos ready, oops.)
I've been up to less than usual this month, since Emily and I both caught the flu in the first week. Fortunately Emily had come to visit me the first day we came down with it, so we had each other to look after us until we were feeling well enough to go back to work. Even after that, we were too tired at the weekends to do much.
However, we still fit in a few awesome things!
One Saturday, we went to the Little Bay restaurant in West Hampstead. We were lucky enough to get one of the little booths that part of the restaurant is fitted out with, which made for a very quiet and cosy lunch. The food itself was really good and not at all expensive either.
We have also walked 10km of the Green Chain from Falconwood railway station to Charlton railway station, a route that took us through the lovely Oxleas Wood and meadows, and ending up at the Thames Barrier. It was a bitterly cold day, snowing at times, but we were able to warm ourselves in the View Café, at 4pm only the second people the staff had seen the whole day! We looked out the window at the snow in front of the Barrier until we felt warm enough to walk to the station.
In the evening, we cooked Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's vegetable biryani, which we thought was very tasty but quite a long and involved recipe for just the two of us. Still, I got to have the leftovers the next evening! Definitely worth doing if you're feeding many people.
Last Sunday, Emily got out her washable marker pens and joined up all my freckles/moles in a giant constellation. I think I looked pretty awesome afterwards!
This week we used the Easter egg moulds I bought a couple of years ago to make five easter eggs - two for Emily's friends and family, two for my family, and one for us to have. We used 1:1 Bournville chocolate to 70% chocolate, which worked out really well, and used some white chocolate to make patterns on the outside layer of the egg. We filled them with a mix of Lindor, Cadbury Creme, and Mini Eggs.
Carrying them to their various destinations, sealed in a cardboard shoe box until they were given, made me feel like I was transporting Schrödinger's eggs.
This Easter we're spending a couple of nights at Emily's mum's, then visiting my parents on Saturday/Sunday, and we have a three-day trip to York beginning on Monday, which we're both looking forward to and have packed all of our warmest clothes for. It seems we will encounter the final day of the York Chocolate Festival, which sounds tasty.
I've been up to less than usual this month, since Emily and I both caught the flu in the first week. Fortunately Emily had come to visit me the first day we came down with it, so we had each other to look after us until we were feeling well enough to go back to work. Even after that, we were too tired at the weekends to do much.
However, we still fit in a few awesome things!
One Saturday, we went to the Little Bay restaurant in West Hampstead. We were lucky enough to get one of the little booths that part of the restaurant is fitted out with, which made for a very quiet and cosy lunch. The food itself was really good and not at all expensive either.
We have also walked 10km of the Green Chain from Falconwood railway station to Charlton railway station, a route that took us through the lovely Oxleas Wood and meadows, and ending up at the Thames Barrier. It was a bitterly cold day, snowing at times, but we were able to warm ourselves in the View Café, at 4pm only the second people the staff had seen the whole day! We looked out the window at the snow in front of the Barrier until we felt warm enough to walk to the station.
In the evening, we cooked Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's vegetable biryani, which we thought was very tasty but quite a long and involved recipe for just the two of us. Still, I got to have the leftovers the next evening! Definitely worth doing if you're feeding many people.
Last Sunday, Emily got out her washable marker pens and joined up all my freckles/moles in a giant constellation. I think I looked pretty awesome afterwards!
This week we used the Easter egg moulds I bought a couple of years ago to make five easter eggs - two for Emily's friends and family, two for my family, and one for us to have. We used 1:1 Bournville chocolate to 70% chocolate, which worked out really well, and used some white chocolate to make patterns on the outside layer of the egg. We filled them with a mix of Lindor, Cadbury Creme, and Mini Eggs.
Carrying them to their various destinations, sealed in a cardboard shoe box until they were given, made me feel like I was transporting Schrödinger's eggs.
This Easter we're spending a couple of nights at Emily's mum's, then visiting my parents on Saturday/Sunday, and we have a three-day trip to York beginning on Monday, which we're both looking forward to and have packed all of our warmest clothes for. It seems we will encounter the final day of the York Chocolate Festival, which sounds tasty.
