This week's happiness

Things that have made me happy this week...

Tea in bed.

Nothing beats a cup of tea in bed on a Sunday morning. Especially when it's a cup of earl grey tea made by my mum, in my old bed at my parents' house. Heaven.

Quintessentially English baking at Bread Ahead Bakery

Did you see my recent post featuring my Italian Breadmaking lesson at Bread Ahead Bakery? If you did, then you'll know how much I enjoyed myself and how won over I was by the bakery. It truly is the most wonderful institution nestled in the heart of Borough Market. Rob bought me a couple of lessons at Bread Ahead for Christmas. It was such a brilliant, thoughtful idea for a present, as he knows how much I love baking and I always think it's much nicer to be given an experience for a gift rather than something materialistic - life's about making memories, after all! So last Friday I went for my second lesson, a lesson in Quintessentially English Baking. I had assumed this would mean baking scones, a Victoria Sponge... maybe some tea cakes? I guessed totally wrong though and was pleasantly surprised to find that we would be baking a few things I had never attempted before: a traditional cottage bread loaf, some Devonshire splits, some good old "lardy cakes" and some traditional Bath buns...

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!