My lovely Grandmas Birthday

It would have been my Grandmas 90th birthday this week...here are some pictures that my dad took ...They shared some time together there and took some flowers..Grandad has not been able to make it for a while and was so pleased to have made it ...the pictures are amazing and special...i miss her still ..x

Lola's New Room

Lola's new room...she absolutely loves it!

Hasn't used her bobby since moving in..which is a miracle.

Still needs alot of sorting, things on the wall, new bed,

clutter sorted...but its getting there!

New Baby stuff...

Starting to get all the stuff ready...very exciting!

All the new white baby-gro's, socks and booties :-)

It's going to be a girl......

So now I am starting to get excitied..if a little nervous about the actual birth..

am just going to write... 'give me drugs please' on my birth plan!

A good weekend...

A nice bunch!

Loving her little deckchair

She keeps creeping out of bed and sleeping in her tee-pee!

Hello You, hope you had a good weekend..liked your booty haul! Very good...where was it?

We had Abi's leaving party on Friday night, then lots of visitors...Liz & Paul came Saturday night and stayed over then Dan & Michelle and their little baby came and joined us for lunch on Sunday..then David & Moira today. All go!

Some pics of Lola from the weekend..nothing more exciting but will take some of her room tonight and put them on tomorrow even though its not sorted yet!

Have you heard of this... http://www.tentlondon.co.uk/ its at Brick Lane Truman Brewery..could be interesting?

grandad

This is one of my grandads pictures, one of thousands...taken in 1970 on the M1...i love it

brilliant

car boot day

today at the car boot sale and the little junk shop that I was telling you about...

a lovely little jug..

and on the shelf with its new friends

amazing ceramic sugar potwith this on the top...

and in situe...

beautiful blue jug..

and in situe with my matching tea pot...i am very happy

Charlene Mullen

look at these ...they are amazing!! all hand sewn charlene mullen

Veggies galore.....

Managed to get up to the allotment for an hour or two in the sunshine...so much stuff is ready..need to get it all cooked or frozen!

Lots and lots of blackberries

First carrots..Lola has eaten them all!

Too many onions...I am bringing you some caramelised onion chutney!

Balsamic Red onion tart with goats cheese. Deeeeeelicious!!

wowoooowwww

I love these..they are by an artist called Pat Albeck who did some stuf for john lewis in the 60's...

beetroot cake

(not my picture)

This cake is AMAZING...i made it this week and it was so yummy and an amazing colour

Ingredients:

• 150g raw beetroot, grated
• 200 ml groundnut oil
• 250g golden caster sugar
• 3 medium eggs, separated
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 100g hazelnuts, roasted and chopped
• 200g plain flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon each ground ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg

Preheat oven to 170 degC fan/190degC/gas mark 5 and butter a 20cm cake tin with a removable base. Line the base with baking paper and butter this too.

Whisk the oil and caster sugar in a large bowl, then whisk in the egg yolks and milk, and fold in the beetroot and nuts. Sift flour and baking power together and stir into the mixture, then add the spices. whisk egg whites in another bowl until stiff, then fold them in three goes into the cake mixture. Divide this between the tins, smoothing the surface and bake for 30-35 mins or until shrinking from the sides and skewer inserted into center comes out clean. run knife around the edge of the cakes and leave to cool.