Oxford Comma

 As promised, here is my little post about my trip to see Lucy in Oxford, I only got back this afternoon and I've been enjoying looking at the pictures I snapped. Oxford is a beautiful city, full of amazing architecture and gorgeous little shops, we went to the most amazing vintage shop where I bought a lovely cardigan and a cool gift for Adam- I could have taken half of the shop home with me if funds allowed, the wall of fur coats was particularly interesting! We shopped, drank lots of tea, went out to some amazing pubs including a converted church which is now a cocktail bar, and played scrabble in another pub yesterday evening. We also walked to and from a lovely pub in Wyvern where we had an amazing lunch with free pudding! On the way home you go past loads of huge lovely houses, I want to live in one! If you haven't been there then I can thourghly recommend it, I will definitely be going back!

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My Return!

After a pretty long absence I have returned to blogging! My internet refused to work for nearly two months and only last week were we sent a new wireless box. Now it's up and running and I've got round to checking about 15 pages of emails I decided it was about time I paid my little space on the web some attention.

 So Christmas and New Year got bypassed, I had an indulgent and wonderfully relaxing time and now it's back to work (sob). My brother returned from a month in Australia (see picture above, lucky!) and we gained a cat! Chunky lives up to his name (massive and very fluffy) and it's lovely to have a pet again, despite his love of eating and chasing a toy mouse around at night!

 I celebrated our four year anniversary with Adam and tried an oyster for the first (and definitely last) time, and next Saturday I am finally going to visit my friend Lucy in Oxford for some much needed vintage shopping, tea and gossiping! 

 That's kind of my update done, I also stopped going to slimming world after losing two stone. It felt like the right choice, and although since leaving I may have gained a little weight (only 4lbs which I am quite pleased with) I feel confident that I can keep it off long term! Christmas calories may have caught up with me, but you have to live a little yes?!

 I am sure I will be back very soon, vintage hunting will hopefully turn up something blog worthy! I would love to share my York holiday film photos but I no longer have a scanner :(

Back soon!

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Holiday to York!

Lovely old streets, our hotel room with a four poster, the castle, heaven in shop form, before dinner outfit, the Shambles, view from the very top of the Minster (eek!), the University's Archaeology building.

 A few photographs from our week away, with more to follow providing my film develops ok! Very much considering going to do my MA course here in the very near future, it's safe to say I've fallen in love with this city and could see myself living here quite happily! A Mulberry and a Barbour shop- what more could I need? 

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Easter bank holiday weekend

 I. This weekend has consisted of lots of walking and also eating a large amount of bad stuff (tasted nice though), so hopefully the exercise cancels it out! Made an cake for my mum's birthday that contained an epic amount of raspberry cream filling, and got lots of chocolate bunnies for Easter.

II. Went up on Dartmoor in the sun to go letterboxing and to climb a tor. Saw some amazing views but the clouds meant that any pictures didn't really come out properly.

III. Also went to Dunster Castle in Somerset on the Sunday, it was a lovely day and such a beautiful place with a very pretty village, also saw an adorable french bulldog with gorgeous little ears like a bat haha. Had quite a spooky experience on a staircase inside the castle, but felt nothing in the rooms where the majority of the ghostly sightings are meant to take place- typical. We came down the back staircase and it was freezing, like walking into a fridge, but only I felt it, my parents said it was warm. The feeling also followed me until the next room, not a pleasant experience, but I really want to go back on a quieter day and see if anything else happens. There was also an exhibition about the castle ghosts, and people had sent in pictures of the castle where things had appeared which weren't there when they were taken- it was so interesting. I looked at my pictures when I got home but there wasn't anything weird in them sadly. 

IIII. Today is so wet and horrible I don't really feel like doing much except drinking lots of tea by the fire and consuming more chocolate, I have lots of vanilla buttercream frosting left over from cake making, so I might make some butterfly cakes this afternoon. Diet is slipping I fear...thank god Easter is once a year!

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Mini Break

Holiday cottage, scallops, Wells (Hot Fuzz location), Longleat guinea pigs, Lacock village, cat, vintage shop, Lacock Abby gardens, cloisters (Harry Potter location), Avebury.

Just got back from a 9 hour shift with aching feet so a bit of blogging will cheer me up! Our small holiday was lovely and I can't wait to go away again, hopefully for a bit longer. Got my Glossybox today so I will be using stuff and then no doubt posting about it at some point. Also got my first dog walking assignment with the Cinnamon Trust tomorrow, so fingers crossed it all goes well. I think it's going to be a busy week...


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