My Recipe book and Piroshki (Russian dumplings)

We’re thick in the end of Autumn/early winter. Every summer I remember the bitter cold and shudder, but I forget about the beauty this time of the year brings. The fog, frosts and changing colours; all very beautiful.

Yesterday I enjoyed a lazy Sunday. Lit the fire early and enjoyed being snug in my own little house while the cold wind whistled outside. I finally got around to a job I’ve been meaning to do since Christmas – write in My Recipe Book.

I’d wanted one for ages because I’m forever ripping recipes out of magazines or photocopying them from books at work, and either lose them after the first use or squish them in amongst the books on my cookbook shelf, which looks messy. Last Christmas my mum bought me a wonderful Recipe book and I spent a happy few hours writing the recipes up.

Doing so I was reminded of some of the yummy things I’ve stumbled across over the years, and one of them, Piroshki, I decided to cook last night.

The reason I’ve been a little slack lately….

baby Robinson

I’m overjoyed to announce that hubby and I are nearly 16 weeks pregnant! (link to ultrasound picture above)

Obviously we are super excited, although it’s been a nervous and scary time for us as well, having had three miscarriages in the past two years. This baby is strong though, and has been happily swimming away in there every time we’ve had a scan. We feel very blessed.

I’ve had morning sickness pretty bad, which is why I havent been up to much over the past few weekends sorry. It’s been a big enough mission to drag myself out of bed and into work some days! But the sickness has mostly faded (apart from the smell of fried eggs, can’t stand them. or hot oil. Yuck). So I will be back into the swing of things soon

Er, last Sunday I found some fungi growing on my….

…mothers lawn.

Where did you think I was going to say?

The Versatile Blogger Award

That’s right, incredibly I have been blessed to be nominated for the Versatile Blogger award for a second time! Woohoo!

This time I received the nomination from the lovely and inspiring Michaela – One Day At A Time

Seven random things about me

1) I love listening to old music from artists like The Crooners, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra etc.

2) I’m writing my second book at the moment, my dream is to be published one day

3) Favourite movies: The Notebook, Walk the Line and The Grinch who Stole Christmas

4) Christmas is my absolute FAVOURITE time of the year! I love it!

5) I can’t watch horror movies. They scare the bejezzers out of me

6) I can’t spell bejezzers

7) I hate the thought of showering, until I’m in there and then I love it. It’s more the having to blowdry and straighten my hair afterwards that I can’t be bothered with.

Blogs I’d like to nominate

Hmm, I nominated fifteen of my favourite blogs last time so I won’t do them again, but here’s a new one that was recommended to me recently that’s fantastic for crafty stuff thegreendragonfly

Thank you again to all my lovely readers/followers! ♥

Anyone receive their NZ postcard in the mail yet?

It’s been what, 3 or 4 weeks? I’m curious to see if anyone has theirs yet. Don’t forget to let me know

 

P.S. SHOCKING mail service if you guys haven’t. No wonder people on holiday get home before their postcards do.

What I’ve learnt from this blog so far, and the Titanic.

Every single day, someone, somewhere in this world, googles ‘bare bums’.

Best soup in the world

It’s that lovely time of the year when all the leaves are turning gorgeous shades of red, orange, yellow and purple. Autumn has been kinder to us, weather wise, than the whole of summer. We’ve had glorious sunny days, cloudless skies, and mild temperatures.

Five years ago today…

I was a new bride

Yesterday was our anniversary, so this weekend has actually been devoted to celebrating with my husband.

Back to normal business next weekend x

Ahhhh…the crap is all gone

Ok ladies. I’m hoping I’m not alone in this, because if I am I will be horribly ashamed (not really. Well maybe a little.)

The Bathroom Cabinet.

Sorry it’s late!

I meant to post these pictures last week but ran into some technical difficulties, i.e. the camera wouldn’t turn on, no matter how many times or how hard I pushed the button. I was fearful that I may have broken it and have to confess that to hubby, who gets nervous when I use expensive equipment because I am Not Careful Enough ( ok I dropped it once, the day we bought it, let it go already). Luckily it was simply that the camera needed charging, which is his domain, and then I had a busy few nights and well, no more excuses, here they are.