Look! I made one.
Thought I have to say that I was slightly regretting offering to make/blog about one yesterday when I would much rather have been in bed than interacting with puff pastry.
Tastes wonderful though, so am currently very glad I made the effort, though I’m not sure my straining jeans would agree.
According to my daughter, this looks like me.
I think resolutions need to be made.
Back in Seattle. Up at 1.30 am with Minx. Currently 9.30 am and have just put hysterical-through-lack-of-sleep baby down for a nap. How I love jetlag.
So we’re off back to Seattle tomorrow.
We have had a magical Christmas. There’s nothing like being in the country for only a limited amount of time to make all your friends eager to meet up, so we’ve been having the most incredibly social time and meeting up with different people morning and evening, for lunch and dinner. I’m twice the size I was when I arrived, utterly exhausted and my liver is screaming for mercy.
The Minx has had the most fabulous time. It’s amazing to see how much she remembers – she has been thrilled to see all her little friends and her favourite animals, playgrounds and parks. Every day has brought a new treat, and it’s been gorgeous to see her literally dancing and clapping her hands with excitement.
Which is all making me feel like the world’s worst mother taking her back to Seattle. We haven’t made that many friends there yet – certainly none to rival the group of babies that the Minx has known since very soon after she was born – and life is rather more sedate and much more mummy-centric than it is here.
I think we’re going to have to come back very soon.
I’m absolutely dreading tomorrow’s ten hour flight and the subsequent jetlag – though for me the journey will finally mark the end of the old year and the beginning of a new one.
We’ve had a pretty tough time for a variety of reasons over the past few years, but 2007 is currently seeming pregnant with potential. I can’t wait to see what the next few months bring.
…meeting up with old friends…
… good food and wine
And a Happy New Year to you all!
Apologies for lack of recent posts. I’m still having an absolute ball here in London.
However, I can finally show you what Helen and I have been working on over the last few weeks. It’s a happy new blog! Full of seasonal ideas for enjoying a sumptuous and delightful 2007.
Please come and play.
at the end of the rainbow.
And it can be found buried in the soon-to-be-opened Olympic Sculpture Park.
And so the Christmas rush is coming to an end for another year, though we’re still getting some last-minute orders thanks in part to some great recent coverage of the cut-steel hanging garland in the Saturday Times (yet another of my ridiculously amateurish photos makes it into the national press) and Saturday Telegraph,
and of our madly popular bathmelts in the Daily Express.
I don’t think Helen wants to wrap another bathmelt as long as she lives.
It’s been exhausting – lots of frantic emails flying backwards and forwards across the Atlantic in the wee small hours for me – but we’ve made it and I think the business has taken another huge step forward. I would never have imagined we’d be in this position just ten weeks ago.
There is still time to place an order before Helen and I slump in a drunken stupor in front of the telly.
Place your order before 2pm on 22nd December and the Royal Mail promises to deliver it before Christmas. We’re even offering guaranteed pre-Christmas delivery for the price of standard delivery on all orders over £40.
A glorious winter’s day, the Sound looks like the Aegean, fish and chips for lunch and a stunning sunset to finish things off.
And all within fifteen minutes drive of our front door. Sometimes I do really like Seattle.