Tuesday, 25 October 2011

the longest birthday EVER!!

The first and MASSIVE birthday surprise was the arrival of Mel all the way from Australia. It was the start of a very big two weeks! we spent a solid 5 nights in our local (the Raven).. this was night one, my birthday, and I THINK from what I remember i drank about 10 jagerbombs, at least 6 tequila shots, a few glasses of wine, and then some.
...we had a good boogie!
By some amazing stroke of luck (or something) I was fine the next day! (I'm putting it down to the two pints of water I downed before going to bed at 4am)
And back to the pub...
The week after, after a few more drunken evenings in the raven, we wandered on down to Brighton for the weekend. We had amazing weather so spent the day on the 'beach'
and then decked ourselves out in 80's gear to head out for the night...
we had an absolute ball!
and then Mel jumped on a plane back home and I skipped across to Italy for the weekend (courtesy of Sam).
I think the photo says it all ;)
We were in Umbria, just near Todi and Sam took me for a stroll in an olive grove, eventually stopping and getting down on one knee.
After him making a bit of a speech about how wonderful I am, I accepted his proposal and I couldn't be happier.
It was just perfect.

:)

a little more baking!...

The pastry course is going really well! I have signed up for the follow up course which runs for another 5 weeks. Woop! Above is my super tasty Victoria sponge (tooting my own a bit i know!)
and this was a bakewell tart...
and my scones... that were a little odd shaped!

Friday, 7 October 2011

Birthday post!

Baking last night again.... bread rolls and a swiss roll!
The Swiss roll doesn't look amazing... but it tasted pretty damn good! (tooting my own horn a little here!)
22.... man I'm gettin old!