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Our everyday life: week 18 & week 19

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My Friday nights usually look like this, with a Joy the Baker podcast soundtrack

I swear he is better at tidying than I am…

So in love with these curls. Can’t bring myself to have them trimmed.

Trouble with a capital T

Making a birthday cake for Shake, courtesy of The Hummingbird Bakery

Missing his Mamie’s dog (also a dalmation)

Caramelized pears in honey about to be baked

I told you he was Trouble

Moving day!

Shake brought one cat home from France

Not impressed with the stair gate

If you follow us on twitter you’ll know we found out AFTER we moved in that the house doesn’t have an oven. Sob. Instead, we have a microwave/oven combination thing. This book needs to be studied. I am scared.

Bed yet to be constructed, but cookbooks organised. Priorities, people.

Normality and recipes will resume someday soon, I hope!!

Bake

xoxo

Our everyday life: week 17

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I have been useless this week – failed to charge 2 cameras properly and missed many photo opportunites out and about this weekend. Check us out on instagram for a few more snaps…

We inherited some train tracks and vehicles from the cousins this week, but think it may have been too soon!

They are better to chew on than play with…

More chewing (urgh more teeth!) but at least this time it’s in the sunshine

“Here mama, a flower”

Thrilled that I let him hold my mug. Confused that there was no coffee left inside

Spot the odd Ted out?

Godparents bought him a drum. Spent a fab weekend in London with them

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Checking out the meerkats at Battersea Children’s Zoo (highly recommend!) just before camera died.

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Shake is going to France this weekend to fetch our worldly goods and I will start moving us to our new home, busy busy…

Bake

xoxo

Our everyday life: week 16

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Shake made a broccoli pesto which was delicious – doesn’t photograph so well though.

Sunshine and blue sky, at last!

Not at all sorry for throwing his lunch on the floor. Argh!!

Carrot and ginger cake

Someone enjoyed the icing

National Trust was free this weekend, so we took 2/3 of our nephews out for the afternoon

Happy cows

Friendly faces?

Kiddie heaven. So nice to be outdoors all day for free

We really made the most of the free weekend and came here the following day

Contrasting floors – fancy tiles for the ladies of the house in their “kitchen”, stone floor for the cooks in the actual kitchen

Not too shabby

Bake

xoxo

Our everyday life: week 15

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One of our new baby groups is at this school. Last week Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman were there filming their new movie. Fancy!

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Trying to recreate my beloved Pret Double berry muffins.

C got to grips with his cup this week

Chicken pie for my boys. Perfect for this miserable weather!

Daddy always knows how to make him laugh

Funny how changing high chairs has changed my days. No nasty plastic to scrub. Nowhere for little bits to get stuck. Amazing! Thanks ebay.

What do you mean don’t play with the records? It’s a gift, for you!

Shake made me pizza

It was delicious!

Still loving his lentil lasagne – recipe for you one day…

Bake

xoxo

Our everyday life: week 14

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It has been so bitterly cold, but on Easter Monday we dragged ourselves out for a visit to The Sustainability Centre. We love it here.

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The beautiful Woodland Classroom designed and built by the amazing Ben Law

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This is where once upon a time Shake proposed

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Love the details around this place

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Much needed hot drink after a chilly walk

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The café has a lovely children’s area with wonderful toys. C was happily amused for quite a while

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You can’t really see it, but there was snow falling…

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C found his nanny’s stash of wool and dragged it all around. Oops – he knows Daddy is not amused!

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Falling asleep during lunch, poor thing!

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After visiting my Grandma we went out to this cute place – love the lightshades!

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My perfect kind of meal – lots of things to dip and pick at (and share with C too!)

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Ended the week with some yummy cookies

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Our everyday life: week 13

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Trying something new with my knitting. Currently failing

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Shake’s KitchenAid bread

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Pretty pink house with pretty pink blossom

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Play Planet! Baby heaven

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Falling asleep on our walk home

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Grateful to be 30 seconds from a park

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C moved this chair and not long after climbed onto the sofa. Sneaky!

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Baking an Easter fudge cake

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Covering EVERYTHING with icing sugar

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Shake’s masterpiece…

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Where C has spent most of this week. Hello clingy!

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Enjoying some rare sunshine on the swings

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Apple Jalousie for Easter

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Happy Easter

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Bake

xoxo

Our everyday life: week 12

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Baby Led Weaning = Constant Cleaning. Plus, turns out C is not a fan of mango.

New routine of breakfast smoothies. Really enjoying it so far, Shake is coming up with some awesome combinations.

Tastes much better than it looks, honest!

If you know me you know I am a messy cook. It was about time I bought an apron.

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Baking Baharat - smelling delicious.

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Sweet potato fries, C’s new favourite food.

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Treated myself to something beautiful. So happy!

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Bake

xoxo

Our everyday life: week 11

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I realised as I was tidying the other night that by my side of the bed is an empty glass of whiskey, red wine, coffee and (fortunately) some water…healthy!

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C loving his birthday cleaning set. He does a better job than his Mama

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When he is quiet you know he is doing something pickly, like getting stuck under his cot.

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Luckily for us C slept for a fair bit of our journey back to the UK. Angel, right?

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Dinner! Surprisingly tasty sandwich (and maybe a mini-doughnut).

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Stupid hotel didn’t provide a cot. Stupid parents didn’t fit one in the car. C slept between two single beds on a mattress surrounded by luggage. Eventually, that is…

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Ah Paris! You are so beautiful. Hmm. Can you spot the Eiffel Tower?

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The charms of the périphérique

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Another service station meal – roast chicken, ratatouille, carrots and some of Shake’s aligot. Not bad, not bad at all.

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Weird photo, but it was such a novelty to have a lovely, clean baby-changing room!

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Snow! Miserable weather! Must be nearer to England now!

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Waiting to board our train, admiring the turbines.

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Bake

xoxo

Our everyday life: week 10

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After days of rain (most unusual here) the room we had stored our packing flooded…great start to the week

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C’s first taste of lavashak

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C loves to hide toys under things and then ask you to fetch them. Of course Mama humours him!

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Hazelnuts, pre-roasting.

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Post-roast and lazily peeled. There were so many!

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C in love with his reflection…

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…and also in love with the dog!

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It was Mother’s Day in the UK on Sunday, but it’s in May in France, so technically I miss both. However, I did get a sweet little card (with some help from Papa!).

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