Sunday 24 April 2011

A good Friday and a very happy Easter...




This is how the Easter break started... Sun and sand and a sit down at last! Its been unbelievably seasonable here, very unyorkshire to be honest! This time last year we decamped to Cyprus to get some sun but no need this year...

We moved outdoors for Easter lunch - unheard of! The little freerangers took a break from egg hunting to join us for dinner but they weren't long before they were back amongst the chocolate!



from our homestead to yours - Happy Easter x


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Tuesday 12 April 2011

She wore an Easter bonnet, and so did her brother...

Its Easter Bonnet time again, time to throw taste, design and the rules of couture out the window and go wild with plastic chicks and yellow ribbon. This year for the first time boy decided he wanted in on the fun...

Never one to be left out!
but he's got big competition from his sister who designed and made her own creation  - okay we may have don a bit of supergluing when she went to bed, but only to keep those fiddly bunnies in place!

Bonnets shouldn't be just for Easter - i cant help but think life would be a whole lot more interesting if we wore one of these to the supermarket more often...

These two certainly thought so...




Monday 11 April 2011

This Ideal Home...


You know what its like, you get some quality time with your girls and all they do is spend their time on the phone! To be fair Gardengirl and Citygirl had trailed around the Ideal home exhibition with me and were in need of muchio refreshment! Refreshment came in the form of champagne cocktails with gold bits floating in them...very fab and gorgeous as long as you don't think too much about where all that gold is going to end up!

Being anything but an Ideal Home Owner we decided to make this years Spring outing to the Ideal Home exhibition in search of inspiration.  I don't know what I was expecting - perhaps the secret to domestic bliss or at least a contraption to make children put their own clothes in the wash basket. Well we didn't find those...but we did find some very nice chandeliers...
Perhaps one day...

and we bumped into Greg Wallace from Masterchef! I managed to resist saying "this is where cooking gets serious!"


We were eating in his cafe when he popped over  to our table - Im ashamed to say that id just put a whole pickled onion in my mouth and couldn't speak or swallow the onion for shock! GG and CG did all the talking and then he moved on. I was so mortified by pickle shame that CG made me go and ask him to come back for a photo - which he did, very generously - i didn't tell him about my onion dilemma though - the horror!

We didn't buy much but came back with lots of brochures, just waiting for those lottery numbers to come up now!