Category Archives: Travel & Places

lately

By Alice | Published: January 30, 2012

1. Beep likes to snuggle.
2. One friend reading another friend’s Soviet joke book, a lot of laughs ;)
3. Beep enjoying cat grass that I grew from a kit I was given at Christmas.
4. Ira.
5. The weather lately.
6. IPAD!! I have been loaned one and I love it. It’s my kind of gadget! I like to read lots of visual type sites about photography/design/cookery/art/gardening etc and this is perfect for that, much better than a computer. For the first time I am almost caught up with my RSS subscriptions. I am using the ‘Perfect RSS’ app which caches your feeds so you can read when not on a WIFI connection. My dilemma is about a case, there are so many ugly and expensive ones. The roll of fabric is there because I am trying to decide if I should make one.
7. Dinner at my mother’s house. Always nice! For dessert I brought over ice cream and made these brownie roll-out cookies dusted with a little bit of icing sugar. Tasty and I thought they were nicest the next day.
8. Pub. A crowd of us saying goodbye to a friend going back to Australia.

Also posted in Cake & Dessert, Cats, Cooking, Days and nights, Oxford | 2 Comments

Little Horse

By Alice | Published: January 19, 2012

That isn’t Little Horse, that’s a normal sized horse.

THIS is Little Horse with tiny little stumpy legs.

As seen on a very wintery lunchtime walk.

I’ve been talking lots of film pictures lately so there has been a bit of a posting hiatus while I work my way through a roll and send them off for processing. Soon! :)

Also posted in Oxfordshire | 2 Comments

Wintery visit to Kew Gardens

By Alice | Published: January 5, 2012

Between Christmas and New Year we visited Kew Gardens, I had been quite ill after Christmas with a horrible tummy bug so this was my first trip out feeling quite pale and delicate. We often seem to go to visit gardens in the winter, they certainly are quieter! :) My dad had strongly recommended we find the Marianne North gallery which is hidden away at the edge of the gardens, it is really interesting, I now strongly recommend it too. Afterwards we paid a very quick visit to the Petersham Nurseries tea house but they’d run out of lunch items so instead we went to Wallace and Co for a quick lunch.

Also posted in London | 4 Comments

Birthday!

By Alice | Published: December 20, 2011

It was my birthday on Sunday and I celebrated with days and days of events spread over two weekends. I really love having my birthday and it’s exactly a week before Christmas so feels very festive and people are in a happy jolly mood.

Birthday number one was with my family, we met at an Italian place for lunch and then went to One Man, Two Guvnors and after we had dinner at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand which is a fun place to eat as it’s very traditional British food and they come and carve at your table.

Birthday number two was going with some friends for pizza and drinking. This was also jointly Simon’s birthday as our birthdays are close. We ate the pizza at La Cucina which was excellent and coped really well with having lots of people.

Then on my actual birthday we had a whole plan of going off to London but the weather was a bit crazy so instead we went for a delicious lunch around the corner at the Magdalen Arms (like last year), and went for a walk. The weather was indeed pretty crazy!