So Yesterday on a very cold and drizzly 31st January, myself and the boy celebrated 3 years together! Obviously he deserves a medal but instead we went for dinner at Turl Street Kitchen in the centre of Oxford. The kitchen only has a selection of 3 or 4 dishes for starter, main and dessert but Read more about Happy three years![…]
This Burns night Jam and I made our way to Garsington Village hall to take part in a rather special burns night birthday celebration. My friend Chris (who I used to play in a band with) was turning 60 and to mark the occasion he had hired out the village hall intent on filling it Read more about Burns night and a 60th birthday[…]
Before Christmas along the corridors of work I started noticing small blue and green posters asking if I had plans for the New Year? At that point I knew that 2014 was going to be an epic year but I wasn’t sure how exactly that was going to happen. Enter stage right the New Years Read more about Time for a few more resolutions….[…]
Jam celebrated ‘a significant’ Birthday in December, so as well as taking him to see one of his favourite bands Ade Edmonson & the Bad Sheppard’s I also booked us a table at local eatery Gee’s. The restaurant itself is situated inside a large glass house, so even if the weather is terrible (as it usually is in Read more about Jam’s birthday and a green fair at work[…]
So with it being ‘firework weekend’ and all that Jam, our friends David and I headed into Oxford to do the obligatory ohhing and ahhing over the South Parks fireworks. We met David at 2.30 in Oxford so therechance for a couple of drinks and some nibbles before the main festivities kicked off. Our first Read more about Remeber remeber…[…]
So a few weeks ago I saw a poster at work for the Oxfordshire bake off. Not only was baking fever coming to a school near us but all the money raised was going to Oxfam and local childrens hospice Helen & Douglas house (the same charity I ran dressed as santa for a few Read more about Going all golden & baking up a storm[…]
This Friday we headed off to the Ashmolean for a late night organised by Oxford Fashion week. There were models showing off designer dresses, with the chance to photograph or sketch if that was your thing (these are a couple of my favourites, there was a theme of clothing from different countries and different decades). Read more about A passion for fashion at the Ashmolean[…]
So today we headed off to Millets farm to tackle their maize maze, before we went in we were given a large red flag so if we got really lost we could wave it and be rescued. We decided to start small and started in the fairy maize (nice and small with quite small corn). Read more about We tackle the maize maze[…]
One of our favourite things to do together at the weekends is look round antique/junk shops in the hope of finding that elusive bargain. I think my biggest find to date was my green men chairs but I always like to have a look at the other beautiful things that are for sale. Hungerford is Read more about Exploring Hungerford and a Bedouin tent[…]
I’m holding my baking friend Carol completely responstible for this purchase. At the weekend we went to visit a antiques/everything you ever wanted yard that she had recommended near Wantage, Haynes of Challow . We went because we were looking for a fold down table for the dining room (our table in their at the Read more about The one where I buy two antique chairs…[…]