fun breakfast #5

custard tart & cup of tea

I am aware that this is neither breakfast food nor good for me but it's shaping up to be a tough week and I felt I needed something...indulgent. I found the tart in the fridge and immediately knew that this would be best and only way to start my Wednesday.

making lately

Lots of knitted squares for a knitting magazine project // a couple more coin purses // some doodling (with tongue twisters as my inspiration) // Mitch's scarf using two wools knit together.

I've had a lot on my plate in the last couple of weeks, in good and bad ways. It's all I can do in the week to get home, eat dinner and go to bed. Weekends too have been fairly low key - gardening, the odd visit o the cinema, a couple of drinks in the pub. I know that it's only going to get more full-on (both work-wise and socially) the closer we get to Christmas so, in an effort to prepare my body for the busy-ness to come, this weekend will be jam-packed full of good stuff - getting a haircut (dear lord I need one!), seeing friends and dancing till the early hours. Should be good and there's only tomorrow that stands in my way. Bring on the weekend!

garden progress

Last month, Mitch and I started working on a neglected bit of my nan's garden with the aim to turn it into a vegetable patch. We've been going every weekend (apart from when we went to Falmouth) and it's really starting to take shape.

Before:

And after - sans the beast of a hedge which was obscuring the rest of the garden and house:

Before:

After, a LOT of digging:

I'd thought that clearing the brambles was hard but digging up roots, turning the earth and raking was waaaay more knackering. Thanks to the last few weekends I've come to associate Saturdays with aching limbs! Hopefully it'll all be worth it though.

Some of the bricks dug up from the earth.

We actually planted something this weekend, not anything we can eat mind you, but some stuff (mustard seeds) that'll be good for the soil. Fingers crossed they'll sprout!

the halloween weekend in numbers

Ziltch: Halloween acknowledgement or related activities (horror film watching/dressing up) carried out over the weekend.

7:20pm: The time on Friday when two awesome women commenced one v.cool interview at the Royal Festival Hall.
(In case you didn't see my excitable and gushing tweets - Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham were amazing, the interview was all that I hoped it would be and more. I left feeling empowered and with a signed copy of 'Not That Kind of Girl'.)

3 hours: Gardening on Saturday. SO many muscles ached afterwards which, I assume, is what happens when you don't do any gardening (or other kind of excercise) for two weeks.

7: The number of squares knitted for a magazine project, two of which were completed in the pub.

15 minutes: Of fireworks put on by the aforementioned pub.

8: Us lot, the only people who brought sparklers to said pub. We had Mitch to thank for that stroke of genuis. I'd forgotten how much fun they are.

100% confirmed: I am going through a bloody mary phase. Cannot get enough of those things.

four little coin purses

I recently made these four mini coin purses to donate to the care centre my nan attends once a week. In mid November their having a Christmas market event to raise money for the centre and I'm hoping they'll be able to sell the purses on the day and make a bit of money, not much probably but every little bit helps eh?

I'm off out for breakfast and then, seeing as the weather's nice, we're heading to my nan's to do some gardening. Happy Saturday all!

Falmouth beer & ale festival

A group of us went to Falmouth last weekend. Our aim? To attend the annual beer, ale & cider festival. And we did. And it was ace. Whilst in the picturesque Cornish coastal town we also sampled a few of the pubs (Beerwolf Books was cool - a pub and bookshop), some local cuisine (Cornish pasties, serious guuuuud chips from Harbour Lights, lush lunch and much needed Bloody Mary  at Gylly Beach cafe), a walk on the beach and a spot of crabbing - which we all sucked at. We stayed at the most bizarre hotel which kinda reminded me of the overlook hotel from the shinning - for quietness, vastness and jazzy carpet reasons rather than ghosts and murderous staff. Wish I'd taken a picture of that place. All in all, the weather was perfect, the ale delicious and the company? The best a gal could ask for :)

As for today...Happy Halloween! Hope you've got something fun lined-up. I'm off to the Royal Festival Hall this evening to hear Caitlin Moran interview Lena Dunham. Should be good :)