This Week

 Improvements in the garden. Growing broad beans, strawberries getting big and finally some colour.

 A super duper shopping trip instigated by Dan!

 Quiet country drives exploring our neighbouring villages.

An after school National Trust trip to Stoneywell. 

 Our first meal from our garden.

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It has been a quiet first week of the year. There has been lots of walking, lots of veggies, lie ins, frost and lots of playing with new Christmas goodies.

Insta-Catch Up

6 years with my beau, incidentally not in the photo, but the weekend that it began.
Warm socks in the chilly weather.

School run fun.
Country Homes, Italiano panini and coffee. Me time perfection.

Baked camemebert and twice baked, homemade breadsticks.
Foggy mornings. 

Date night.
Three cheese tart with caremelised onion and beetroot chutney.

A treat from the Joules sale.
From scratch Lemon Meringue Pie for Momma who is in the wars.

Our Week

Another exhausting week has flown by. We have been on a delightful night time bat walk, Louie has learned how to ride his bike (all by himself!), played games at Calke Abbey and had a delicious mid week roast. Louie has been settling in to school and we have been preparing for our impending house move, brimming with excitement.

Round Up

Another round up of our week via Instagram. I do apologise for being much better at updating instagram than my lovely blog as of late. My time, simply has not been spent on my computer I am afraid.
Too much time spent out of doors, crafting, painting, making, reading and planning. This past week has been filled with

• a camera-less visit to Packwood House in the pouring rain, just me, the husband and the bee.
• picking colours for our new house from the Farrow and Ball catalogue
• painting a bird house
• playing cowboys
• buying school uniforms
• nana/mother hen's birthday
• painting with oil paints for the first time in 6 years
• a breakfast picnic
• my Auntie and Uncles Ruby wedding anniversary BBQ, including looking through old wedding photos!