This morning

An empty park, the sun on my skin.

Bliss!

Day Off

Time to get up and enjoy the glorious day in the sunshine. First on the agenda - power walk. Good Morning Folks!

Glorious Saturday

We had a nice lie in and later when the Italian went to the gym I went for a lovely power walk. Happy people around jogging, walking or just hanging out in the sunshine.

Time for a well needed shower and then unfortunately off to work. The Italian is off this weekend, off course, when I am working night tonight. A shame but never mind. Our time will come. Our time will come. Next week he is off Monday, Tuesday and I'm off Wednesday, Thursday. Our time will come. Our time will come. Haha. Anyway. Better get ready for work.

Morning.

We ate so much last night. In my head I was still going to stick to my no carb diet, but that went out the window after about two minutes when I had a glass of Prosecco in front of me and some gorgeous cicchetti mainly consisting of mini bruschetta with various toppings. After that I decided to leave the diet at home and eat whatever was put in front of me. After all, this is one of the best restaurants in London at the moment, so it would be silly to miss out. We continued down to the restaurant after a while and had an amazing melon soup, and then something I've never tried before. Scallop carpaccio with anjovis - just enough to add a gorgeous salty flavour to it. It was the best carpaccio ever. When Vanessa's boyfriend Ben arrived the Italian showed his sense of humour and sent up a lonely uncooked carrot on a plate and said that was all they could do for vegetarians. Haha he's too funny. After that he presented the most gorgeous vegetarian meal for him though, and then we all had a portion of Gnocchi - once again, the best Gnocchi ever, I never even used to like Gnocchi. They then asked us what we'd like for our main course. Pardon?
I chose grilled prawns. Yum! For dessert we got two massive plates. One with the most delicious lemon tart and the other had some Italian home made biscuits (I've forgotten the name now) with peach cream and berries - it was phenomenal. And then the big surprise for me that he'd kept telling me about, Frangelico sour jelly. Mmmmm it tasted exactly like the cocktail. It was beautiful. I am so proud of my man for being such a good chef and host. Got up early this morning when he went off to a meeting and I've had time for a power walk. He just came back home now and we're going to chill for a bit before heading to work.

The Week

Wow, what a week.

It's been non stop so I am sorry that I've neglected you.

Monday and Tuesday I worked from 8am - 8pm and I didn't do much else.

Although, actually I did go to the cinema on Monday night - Bridesmaids. A must if you like to laugh. It is the funniest film I've watched in a long time!

I was off yesterday and the day flew by.

I woke up about 8am and went for a power walk for an hour and 20 minutes. I came home and started a book (very rare that I just sit down and read) After a couple of hours I went for a run and did 20 minutes Zumba.

I needed some Jeans and went to H&M in One New Change and came out with a beautiful dress and some earrings instead.

A few doors down at Top Shop though I bought a pair of Jeans that were ok.

And then I jumped on the train at Liverpool Street to Ilford for my Spa Treatment - more about that later.

And then I went home, cooked some nice dinner and relaxed that much that I actually finished my book that I started the same morning.

 

And today I am back at work and I am meeting Vanessa at Tempo tonight for dinner.

 

I hope you are all having a good week so far.

Wednesday

In a waiting room at a spa to do something I've wanted to do for a long time.

Things that makes me laugh

There's a car park in East London that I cycle through every day on my way to work.

On the one side as you come in there is a sign that looks like this.

Completely normal and makes sense in any way considering that this is a car park.

However, if the car park looks like this

I'm thinking it is a bit pointless.

I mean fire exit ?? The whole car park is a big fire exit...

Haha, little silly things that gets me smiling in the morning.

Sunday

I managed to get a few more freckles on my nose after a couple of hours in the park. And now I'm going to change and head off to the cinema.

Good Morning

I woke up with a sore head today and went straight out for a power walk.

Just got home now and had some breakfast,

It was a good night last night.

I wore my new shoes last night but didn't take any pictures at all.

I did however send these two to the Italian to tell him that me and my prostitute red lipstick and my new shoes were going out.

And then I got on the tube and travelled to Clapham. It took  me 45 minutes.

H and I left the bar at 12.10 as the others were off out to a club, arrived at the tube station 12.15 only to find out that the last tube had gone, 12.15!! On a Saturday!! In London!! I never travel on the tube so I had no idea it was so bad.

Got a taxi to Victoria and then a bus to Liverpool Street and then another taxi from there since the bus I wanted to change to had moved somewhere else. All in all it took me two and a half hours to get home! Insane.

I said I was going to take my mind off Norway and go out. That didn't work very well. I spoke about it to everyone I met... It is just so, so sad.

I am now going to go and lie down and wait for the Italian to come home from the gym and then we might go and make something of this beautiful sunny day.



Norway

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Such a horrible story.

I still haven't got a TV so I just have to follow it on the Internet as best I can.

I've read some blogs from witnesses and people that were there.

It's a very sad day.

I am going to try and put it aside for a minute though and get ready to go and meet H in Clapham for a drink tonight.

My thoughts go out to all of you with friends and family in Oslo.

Soft night

Watched two films Gia - such a sad story, and another step up film - still love them, this one was even from London. Even better.
And now I'm lounging around in my new favourite t-shirt watching some tv series that I've downloaded.

Sick house

The Italian and I were so excited to be off together today but he's just gone to bed for a bit with shivering cold, and I've got a really bad headache that feels like it's coming from my sinuses. A shame, but we are going to try and make it to the cinema later to at least get out of the house for a bit.

Mobile failure

Sorry, I've tried to blog via the phone the last two days since we came back to London but it doesn't seem like it worked?!? Let's see if this works better. It sucks being back, but I'm keeping myself busy so I'll forget how much I want to be back in Sweden. It's always nice to come home though after you've been away, I just wish that home was in Sweden... I always feel like this for a few days after I've been away but I'm sure I'll snap out of it soon. Lots of pictures from Sweden coming up either later today or tomorrow. X

Thank you

The Italian and I have just finished a slow hour and a half walk in the evening sun and we are now off to the cinema for Bad Teachers.
By the way thank you so much for crossing your fingers for my lottery ticket. I won!
I won £7!!!!!
I've never won anything before....
Very excited. And I spent two of them buying a new ticket for tonight's draw. So I need those lucky fingers crossed again. Thank you!

Good Morning

We pretty much just woke up.

It was a great night last night, and I, as always, want to move into Shoreditch House.

It is such a gorgeous place.

I am now going to check the lottery numbers from last night (keep your fingers crossed) and have some breakfast.
Adele is on in the background.

Not much on the agenda today. I am going for a run and dong some Zumba at home.

I was planning to spend the day in the park, but the sun seems a bit uncertain of it's attendance today so I might have to leave that.

I hope you are all having a great weekend, pictures from last night will come up shortly.

Friday Feeling:)

I am off this weekend so I've got that Friday feeling today.. Well actually I feel a little bit rough after last night (there might be a video coming up shortly if I can get it to work) but I am still very excited about this weekend.
Today is all about no make up, fatty food and a summer dress.
I just went out and bought myself a Magnum ice cream. Life is good.

Tease

There's a big concert week going on in Hyde Park this week and a few days ago my favourites Kings of Leon was there. Somehow I had completely missed this and therefor obviously didn't go. The day after I came into work and heard all about how amazing it had been. I put on my grumpy face and told them that I wasn't interested.
Today someone brings me a souvenir... A four day old VIP pass. Thanks but no thanks....

Speaking Italian

After speaking to the Italian last week about our next trip to Italy I realised that I need to stop lazying around about my Italian language learning.

Going to Italy is one of the most relaxing things to do, but I will off course enjoy it ten times more if I can actually communicate with people as well. Especially since I am a bit of a chatter box.

They might not like me as much if I get going, but that's a different matter.

I had an offer from Groupon that I couldn't resist, a 6 month course from Babbel for £5.

And yesterday I started, it's so much fun, and I rock. The Italian was next to me this morning as I continued on and he said that I will speak better Italian than him soon:)

I am so excited and can't wait to continue it tomorrow morning.

From now on I think we might have one day a week that is Italian speaking at home as well.

If there's any languages that you've thought about practising, Babbel is a great website, and whether you have a coupon or not the prices are really reasonable.

DLR

I always feel like a child when I'm on the DLR it feels like I'm on a tram in Gothenburg and it gets me quite excited. We're going out for dinner.

Two Favourites

Sometimes you forget how beautiful London is. It's easy to just look at all the grey and concrete.

But on my way to work I cycle by two of my favourite buildings in London.

The first on is the Royal Court of Justice.

I don't know what it is that I love so much with this building, but I find it absolutely gorgeous.

I've only been inside once, for the after party of the premiere of V for Vendetta.

I've looked for the photos to see if I had some good ones of what it looks like inside, but I can't for the life of me find them.

And the second one is St Paul's Cathedral.

I've never been inside properly, but last time when my parents came to visit we had a little peak through the door right at the entrance.

Here, but no further

I've always been fascinated my churches and cathedrals though and my dream is to convert and old church to my dream house one day.