belated weekend catch-up, curly tashes and too much cake...

 

Weekend began on Friday morning with cake for breakfast, shop bought...not even home made, or pretending to be healthy.

It really began even before then on Thursday afternoon. I've got into the habit this week of going grocery shopping at twilight. There's just time before everyone comes home for supper. Trying to work at home now, with mild misty Christmasy days that suddenly go dull and dark at three o'clock,  the grocery store with  wide isles, twinkling lights and helpful staff calls me...As does the bakery section with reduced bread, baked that day. This Thursday I came out of there with good organic bread, crisps and even cake...and then devoured two bags of crisps (which I very rarely buy, never-mind eat) and two dark chocolate ginger bars in the car before driving back home. Only to have a cup of tea and big slice of cake when I got there...best bit is, I didn't even feel guilty.  

Definitely something to do with my impending birthday Friday morning and wanting to celebrate.     It was so good I didn't even care...

Sad but true, the first thing I usually do at 6:30 am with bleary eyes and without reading glasses before making breakfast, is check the Etsy shop for customers and blogs for new posts and comments,  then reply. Which is why my comments always have so many mistakes in them, and I sent my sister an email with "kits" of love instead of "lots." 

Actually I like"kits" of love...I think I'll use that instead from now on.  

Friday morning when I logged in, there on the keypad was a cute little drawstring bag with handwritten note that I almost missed in the half light. Inside, an invitation to meet H after work for Japanese tea and then here.  How cool...

After the usual manic morning rush, I opened parcels of fun things that had arrived in the post. A book and perfume, whilst A told me not to cook. It seemed he had supper planned, maybe he was going to make something (again lucky me, previous employer had treated all the staff to a meal here mid-week, gnocchi wild mushrooms, spinach and goats cheese...images 5 to 7 above courtesy of their website...check out the amazing tash...)

Fun time with H, met her in Summertown, rooted round here and fell in love with little vintage 20's shoes and Kimono's and stole lots of ideas for decorating, that I'll probably never use. 

Couldn't resist going into Barefoot Books (even though they are for little ones) and finding that they do yoga classes upstairs.

Then to the Mimosa for Japanese tea, it's lovely you climb into a tea room with panel doors and sit on the floor sipping tea...

...then home where A gave me a moleskin and a note saying that  tommorrow would be "open purse no-nonsense shopping" whisked us off to the river for supper...baked sea bass risotto followed by apple pie with custard...lots to be thankful for...

I'm a bit behind linking with Amanda for this weekend this was a week ago but still time to catch up with everyone over here....are you coming to catch up too?

deb