Beauty: A love affair with Molton Brown

This week I finally cracked into my Molton Brown bath set that I got for Christmas. I've been having a little love affair with Molton Brown this past year, my showers were totally transformed after I discovered the incredible Pink Pepperpod body wash so when I was given this amazing set for Christmas I literally squealed with delight...

Isn't it look amazing?! I love the cute 50ml bottles, they'll be perfect to take on holiday or to pop in my bag for weekends away and having so many of them will {hopefully!} mean they'll last ages. I'll be the first to admit that I'm the shallowest of shallow when it comes to packaging, I'll buy anything based on its appearance but seriously, shall we just take a minute or two to fully appreciate how beautifully arranged and colour-coordinated this box set really is?!...

Skiing at The Snozone, Milton Keynes

I suddenly remembered yesterday that I never blogged properly about my first skiing lesson at The Snozone in Milton Keynes, so I thought I'd do a belated post, just incase any of you are thinking about taking up skiing and want to know what to expect.

For a while now Rob has been hinting about skiing holidays but I've always been rather apprehensive, replying with excuses like "but I've never been skiing before and you'll race off without me!" {which still applies, I may add!}! Anyway, after some deliberation I decided that it was time to finally bite the bullet and have a few lessons to prepare myself for a possible future ski trip, especially seeing as 'learning to ski' happens to be number 14 on my 30 before 30 list! 

This week's happiness

Things that have made me happy this week...

Sunshine

Could it be, that Spring is finally arriving?! We've had some really lovely sunshine this past week with brilliant blue skies. It always amazes me how uplifted I feel when the sun's out. I've managed to get out for a couple of runs this week which has made me feel so much happier in myself and the sunshine kept me going each step of the way! I also spied hundreds upon hundreds of daffodils beginning to sprout in Greenwich Park... It won't be long until the park is cheerfully yellow and full of Spring!

{ The best view of London... from Greenwich <3}

House Hunting... Trials, tribulations and celebrations!

It's been a while since I updated you all on our house hunt and that's because, for a little while, there was no news to update you with. We decided to take a break from the house hunting over the Christmas period because quite frankly it was making us both a bit grumpy. It began to feel like some huge, depressing chore with no light at the end of the tunnel. "When will we finally find 'the one'?" "Why is there nothing out there for us?" "Why can't we afford the beautiful house worth £648933363839303936?". These were all reoccurring rhetorical questions we asked ourselves again and again and again. A break was most definitely needed.

Then January arrived. A New Year. A good time to start afresh, I guess. Who sells their house in December anyway?! January arrives and people get the urge to sell up and move. Surely there would be somewhere for us on the market if we looked again...?! So we scouted Rightmove and drove down to Sevenoaks, in Kent, to visit a few local estate agents. It was in and around the Sevenoaks area we had our hearts set on. Frustratingly, as we began to speak to estate agents, we began to feel just as let down as we had done in October and November and December... There was nothing on the market that seemed to fit our budget.