I turned 26 last Thursday 🙂 I had a great day filled with yummy food, wonderful presents and fun experiences. Here’s hoping that the journey to 27 is equally awesome. Pancakes for breakfast cooked by Mark 🙂 With cherries and blueberries, and agave syrup- yum! Then I opened my cards and presents that had come … More Happy Birthday To Me
This month I became part of a great idea known as “Foodie Penpals”. It was started in the US by Lindsay over at The Lean Green Bean, and has been brought to the UK/Europe via Carol Anne at This is Rock Salt. The basic premise is that food bloggers and blog readers get to know … More Foodie Penpals : February
Time for another What I Ate Wednesday with Jenn from Peas & Crayons! These are my eats from yesterday (Tuesday) again…BreakfastBanana porridge with chia seeds and crunchy peanut butter. Sorry, I know I’m boring, posting the same thing again, but I did say I love it! 🙂 Mid morningCup of tea 🙂 Lunch I met Mark … More WIAW : What I Ate Wednesday 2
Monday – 2.02miles, 22:38mins, av pace 11:12min/mile (first run at lunchtime at work!) Tuesday – Rest Wednesday – 30mins Nike Training Club app, 15mins yoga Thursday – Gym- 30mins spinning plus 5min elliptical w-up/c-down Friday – Rest Saturday – Rest (walking around London) Sunday – Gym- 2.8km, 24mins on treadmill. TRX workout. I scaled back the … More Weekly Workout Recap
On Saturday Mark and I went into London for a late breakfast and some exploring around Soho. This eclectic area has many great-looking cafes and restaurants, and after some prior research we ended up at Bill’s. Bill’s now has restaurants in 15 different locations (5 in London), such is the popularity, and has been named … More Breakfast at Bill’s : Review
The marvellous things on the Internet I have stumbled across this week… Why drinking coffee may actually be good for you– this makes me very happy considering Mark and I bought a Nespresso machine a few weeks ago, and I love it! (will do a review at some point…) Some fun notes about being a … More Fun Friday Links
WIAW: What I Ate Wednesday 1 Jumping on the bandwagon here, but I generally take quite a lot of pictures of my food so I figured it would be informative to do a full days worth… The WIAW idea was started by Jenn over at Peas and Crayons, and has quickly spread across the internet. … More WIAW: What I Ate Wednesday 1
For this weeks Random Recipe I’m actually going to cheat a little and do a review of the Valentines Day meal that Mark and I had from Marks and Spencer. We don’t really buy into the commercialism of the day (why only express your love one day a year and pay extortionate prices to do … More Random Recipe: Valentines Day
This is a quick rundown of last weeks workouts. My friend Elspeth and I are using a Google Drive document to make a note of our fitness sessions, so we motivate each other to keep going and hold each other accountable when we slack off! So far it’s working really well 🙂 Monday – RESTTuesday – … More Weekly Workout Recap
My sister came to stay last weekend and we had fun exploring London together! Saturday My parents dropped my sister off so they could get a chance to visit our new house- they brought some lovely housewarming flowers! The weather was rather rubbish for the rest of the afternoon so we played games and … More A Weekend of Dinosaurs and Food
Miss Wheezy 