Lunchtime

Eating Outside Day was a walk in the park, or should that actually be a walk to the park.
I am extremely lucky to have a very pretty park around the corner from my place of work.
Every day I'm at the office this is where I go to to eat my lunch, that is as long as it's not pouring with rain or bitterly cold.
Instead of one of the benches today I headed for one of the picnic tables, ate my lunch, read a magazine and then back calmer and fuller and ready for the afternoon ahead.

Gimme S'Mores

We weren't going to have just any old toasted marshmallow for toasted marshmallow day.

No siree!

Mainly because sitting round a campfire with toasting forks just wasn't an option.

Switching on the oven and making it an indoor based activity was certainly the way to go with this one.

So this is what S and I did.

We heated the oven to 180c.

We lined a baking tray with foil.

We placed 12 digestive biscuits on the tray and placed two chunks of Dairy Milk chocolate on top of each one.

We then popped a marshmallow on top of the chocolate.

Are you following these steps, quite complicated this isn't it?!

                      We then placed the tray in the oven for 4 minutes and
 sat and watched as the marshmallows rose and expanded and the chocolate    melted.

We then removed the tray from the oven and topped each one off with another biscuit before choosing which one (or maybe it was two) we wanted to eat, wiping the gooey chocolate and oozy marshmallow off our chins.

Perfection.

Cherries and Daisies

Mary Poppins went on general release in the USA on 29th August 1964.

A supercalifragilisticexpialidocious movie full of great songs and some wonderful costumes too. 
It's Mary Poppin's hat which I chose for my outfit inspiration today.

I was lucky enough to find this incredible cherry skirt in a charity shop recently for £1.50. 
Teamed with a plain black t-shirt on top and finished off with a daisy brooch.
Loved wearing this.

Bats and Bows

27th August 2008 was the day my wonderful dad passed away.

For the past couple of years on this date (and also in February on dad's birthday) my sisters and I have met up for breakfast.

This is exactly what we did yesterday morning before going to the church with some flowers.

I had planned to sit down in the evening and cut out some bats in a super duper effort to be organised for Halloween as it was bat night but as the day went on I began feeling more and more melancholic and it just didn't happen.

Never mind, still plenty of time to get organised.

Today I have raided my daughter's jewellery collection for the perfect accessory to wear for bow tie day.

Very happy to wear this today because as any self respecting Dr Who fan knows Bow Ties Are Cool.

Waffles, Wallington and We've got whiskey, gin, vodka, whatever you like

There wasn't a post on Thursday as I chose to save Waffle Day until Saturday morning.

That way we could have them as a breakfast treat without having to rush.

We wanted to go out and about today.

G is working tomorrow and Monday will probably be spent doing stuff at home so for Saturday we wanted to go out but it needed not to be too far from home.

G used to work in Fareham and isn't so keen on revisiting but I suggested it as a possibility as I had found details of a walk we could try.

First up we had to walk along the high street where we did a little window shopping, spotting this great Unhappy Birthday card in a vintage shop and huge wooden pink button in a haberdashery shop, before making our way to Wallington village hall.

The start of the walk is an industrial estate but nature was very close at hand, quite literally. This butterfly was sat on the road and would have been squished by a passing car but G picked it up to try and put it somewhere a little safer.

Once past the industrial estate and over a motorway bridge we were surrounded by farm land and some wonderful countryside views.

There was time for a little posing as we made our way towards

 a pub for some much needed liquid refreshment.

It was at this point we decided to end the walk.

We had arrived at a row of picturesque cottages in Wallington and there was still a lot more of the self guided walk to do but we had to keep an eye on the time.

We were at a point from where we could easily pick the walk up again another time and so headed back.

It had been lovely being out for a short sunny walk. 

Whilst out today I saw a dress on a vintage rail in a charity shop which would be the perfect outfit for someone to wear to a 70s party

or drinks evening like the one in Abigail's Party.

The female lead in this play is Alison Steadman and it's her birthday today.

This evening G and I have put our feet up and are enjoying some nuts, nibbles and cheese and pineapple a la Beverley Moss

Movie Time

It's time for another movie.
I'm not a huge fan of the Bond movies and could probably count the number I have seen on one hand.
If asked I would answer that Sean Connery was my favourite Bond but only because I think he is a very handsome man.
Today is Sean Connery's birthday.
As I blogged on Tuesday, this week also saw the birthday of Honor Blackman.
For these two reasons we shall be settling down later this evening to watch
Goldfinger.

Singin' In The Rain

Well those stormy looking clouds certainly chased us from the place.
The place being the cut way behind our home where we had planned to get busy with the chalk again.
With the clouds so dark up above we didn't want to run the risk of our art work disappearing as fast as we were drawing so we chose to use our indoor chalk board.
All done to mark the birthday of actor and song and dance man extraordinaire Gene Kelly.