lovehearts

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S65Nd3uDM9I/AAAAAAAAABo/U7sENiE4fuY/s1600/DSCF7647.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S65Nd3uDM9I/AAAAAAAAABo/U7sENiE4fuY/s640/DSCF7647.JPG" width="414" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S65NP9R8AQI/AAAAAAAAABg/myahX3PDVjU/s1600/DSCF7645.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S65NP9R8AQI/AAAAAAAAABg/myahX3PDVjU/s640/DSCF7645.JPG" width="358" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">Lovely velvety comfort, and horrendously painful shoes balanced each other out quite successfully today. If anyone who owns a pair of these tights has managed to keep them from ripping, please tell me your secrets.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">Leotard - Topshop</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">Shorts -used to be Pull&Bear jeans</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">Tights - Penneys</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;">Belt - vintage</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br /></span></span></div>

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Lovely velvety comfort, and horrendously painful shoes balanced each other out quite successfully today. If anyone who owns a pair of these tights has managed to keep them from ripping, please tell me your secrets.Leotard - TopshopShorts -used to be Pull&Bear jeansTights - PenneysBelt - vintage…

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Lost time can never be found again.

I'm trying to make up for not having a blog. So this is from last December. White Rabbit-style late.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S6wJkOwD0tI/AAAAAAAAABQ/VnWPpJdNl5g/s1600/DSCF7035.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S6wJkOwD0tI/AAAAAAAAABQ/VnWPpJdNl5g/s640/DSCF7035.JPG" width="314" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S6wJwZMl5EI/AAAAAAAAABY/zGfx6zfAwWQ/s1600/DSCF7039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S6wJwZMl5EI/AAAAAAAAABY/zGfx6zfAwWQ/s640/DSCF7039.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br />Jacket - L'Art by River Island<br />Leotard - Topshop<br />Jeans - Topshop<br />Belt - Urban Outfitters<br />Necklaces - H&M, Topshop<br />Earrings - Aldo

Lost time can never be found again.

I'm trying to make up for not having a blog. So this is from last December. White Rabbit-style late.Jacket - L'Art by River IslandLeotard - TopshopJeans - TopshopBelt - Urban OutfittersNecklaces - H&M, TopshopEarrings - Aldo…

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Spring..

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">..has indeed sprung. But I'm not giving up my vinatgey ice skate-style boots just yet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S6wHUl0XEOI/AAAAAAAAAA4/WhyJGvvq5NA/s1600/DSCF7505.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S6wHUl0XEOI/AAAAAAAAAA4/WhyJGvvq5NA/s640/DSCF7505.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shirt - Primark</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blouse - Lux</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Leggings - Topshop</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Boots - Aldo</span>

Spring..

..has indeed sprung. But I'm not giving up my vinatgey ice skate-style boots just yet.Shirt - PrimarkBlouse - LuxLeggings - TopshopBoots - Aldo…

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Baba blog.

I don't know why tonight was the night I finally decided to get off my ass and start a blog, it just was.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S6wFAXkSNbI/AAAAAAAAAAM/utoxRdvOh2A/s1600/IMG_2910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sLfq4rRG8dQ/S6wFAXkSNbI/AAAAAAAAAAM/utoxRdvOh2A/s640/IMG_2910.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>Possibly my favourite fur coat in the entire world? Like an eighties rock star king..<br /><br />Coat - Topshop<br />Dress (worn as top) - Topshop<br />Skirt - Primark<br />Necklaces - vintage and Topshop

Baba blog.

I don't know why tonight was the night I finally decided to get off my ass and start a blog, it just was.Possibly my favourite fur coat in the entire world? Like an eighties rock star king..Coat - TopshopDress (worn as top) - TopshopSkirt - PrimarkNecklaces - vintage and Topshop…

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Bread, and the awesomeness thereof.

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW-OQkv3XInpNQqxQ3UxqoNjiCwG19UxmWX0bvN-hbciUmHRGp2hxIwuClvD01oA4LmdcpZe6WEgPlmMRiTWV9Se-Dws2z-MJguEeMF8OZuh79ajrQlm3qVBnQsxDDIjB7nqH9yCUlkTM/s1600-h/bread1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449152921273910914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW-OQkv3XInpNQqxQ3UxqoNjiCwG19UxmWX0bvN-hbciUmHRGp2hxIwuClvD01oA4LmdcpZe6WEgPlmMRiTWV9Se-Dws2z-MJguEeMF8OZuh79ajrQlm3qVBnQsxDDIjB7nqH9yCUlkTM/s400/bread1.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Well I fell off the Thing A Day bandwagon - surprise surprise - but only because my last couple of weeks at work were just too busy and exhausting and I was getting home, having a bite to eat and going straight to bed. But now I'm a happy housewife, for a little while anyway, and am filling my days with domestic things like cooking and sorting out our wilderness of a garden until my course starts. (Incidentally, there's a chance they might not get the numbers to run the course I really want to do, so if anyone is near Gloucester and wants to train to be a chef in three months, you should </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.gloscol.ac.uk/nqcontent.aspx?a_name=CourseInfo&CourseID=9793">come along</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and make up the numbers!)</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />Anyway, I'd like to share with you one of the newest obsessions in my life. Since I've had a bit more time on my hands, I've discovered the joys of baking bread by hand. People always say it's therapeutic and they are completely right - kneading dough is like squidging the world's best stress ball, and the results are far nicer than anything you buy in Tesco (those awful plastic white sliced loaves... yeeeuch). We bought a bread machine last year and used it constantly, but it's now confined to the cupboard while I get my hands messy.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />And like any baking, it's a bit like alchemy. Take random ingredients, mix them together, throw them in an oven, and they turn into something completely different. It's fantastic. You don't even need a recipe once you get the hang of baker's percentages.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2t1FnsNxhiIJ5X2ofKm8yYRQBfrGAtZq8d0XzZPoJWulVf9xc8IAEu7oPI6h0yzFx97bX1E9cKKPnXSgBjdliHPN204-9GOY3ajb1SHXS1zgk_Q7wbXmep2ZEJbM92ayzexk6gPWD2M/s1600-h/bread2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449152927835717762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2t1FnsNxhiIJ5X2ofKm8yYRQBfrGAtZq8d0XzZPoJWulVf9xc8IAEu7oPI6h0yzFx97bX1E9cKKPnXSgBjdliHPN204-9GOY3ajb1SHXS1zgk_Q7wbXmep2ZEJbM92ayzexk6gPWD2M/s400/bread2.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 400px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is my latest loaf. The top is a little darker than it would be normally, due to me forgetting to move the oven shelf down a bit, but it doesn't taste burnt and it made for very yummy toast once I'd spread cherry jam on it :)</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br />Go on, give it a try, I promise it's easier than you think. If you're tempted, pick up a copy of the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bread-River-Cottage-Handbook-No/dp/074759533X">River Cottage Bread Handbook</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, which is gorgeous and I've taken to carrying it around in my handbag. Is that a bit weird?</span> </div>

Bread, and the awesomeness thereof.

Well I fell off the Thing A Day bandwagon - surprise surprise - but only because my last couple of weeks at work were just too busy and exhausting and I was getting home, having a bite to eat and going straight to bed. But now I'm a happy housewife, for a little while anyway, and am filling my days…

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