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Mr H and I took a trip to Winchcombe, a stunning Cotswold village, to broaden our house search.
Of course, we had to stop for cake first...

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I hope you all had a lovely bank holiday? I certainly did- I would even go as far to say, it was best weekend of year so far!

 

On Friday, I said farewell to a close work colleague, a.k.a my work husband, but he's only moving round the corner so I wasn't too distraught!

And on Saturday night, I reverted back to a fourteen year old girl and screamed my little head off at a McBusted concert.

Sunday was a lot more chilled, finished off with a few cocktails with the girls and watching Duke play in Cheltenham.

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This week, I celebrated my twenty-third birthday. I was thoroughly spoilt and ate far too much cake.

For me, birthdays are about family time- they are the best excuse to get everyone together for a chat and a giggle.

Birthday girl.

 

My beautiful 'baby' sister turns fourteen today. Our lovely early Christmas present.
Our festivities begin on Christmas Eve and don't stop until the New Year. I love this time of year.

Have a very Merry Christmas everyone & a wonderful New Year.
x

Waffle Fest!

Ok, I'm going to let you in to a little secret- I absolutely love waffles! C'mon, what's not to love.
So when I heard about 'He Says She Waffles', in my favourite town of Cirencester, I knew I had to pay them a visit.
On Sunday, we jumped in the car, with our tummy's rumbling... But little did we know, it was in fact their first birthday party and that meant, free waffles! We only had the choice of maple syrup waffles, but boy, were they delicious!
(Of course, this means we'll have to go back again to sample more of the menu- What a shame!)

Mr H and I have been caught red handed and we made a sneaky appearance on their Facebook page, oops!

Wimbledon Cake

(A confession to start... I made this strawberry cake to enjoy whilst watching the Wimbledon final. Well, Andy Murray may have made it to Sunday's final (& won, woohoo!) but the cake certainly did not! Hubby & I devoured the cake well before Sunday. Oops)

I'm trying to brush up on my baking skills & I really wanted to use the cake dome we received as a wedding pressie.
The easy option here would have been just to ask my sister to make me a cake because she is a total natural when it comes to baking. Bit of this, sprinkle of that; & hey presto, a lovely cake!
Me however, not so much. But I do make a cracking lasagne!

Anyway, I thought I would start by throwing together a really easy sponge. It's pretty much as easy as you can get. (The recipe is adapted from one I saw here.)

This strawberry cake is really soft & gooey & best served with cream (well it wouldn't be Wimbledon without strawberries & cream now would it!)