Gone

My visitors are gone and all that's left is a Swedish magazine. It was such a shame that I was working as much as I was when they were here. It was nice in one way to give them some aunt-nephew time, but it would've been nice to have the evenings off with them at least. Ah well. We saw each other last night after they came back from the football, and I had Thursday off with them all day. Now I'm working until Sunday when we are probably going to River Cafe for lunch instead of Thorpe Park. Works for me... Now I'm off to work. Have a great week! X

Does this make you feel sick?

Yeah me too, and yet it still seems that this is where I am spending my day next Sunday.

Thorpe Park....

When I was little I used to love all these things, the faster the better.

But now... not so much.

We'll see how it goes, maybe I'll find some inner adrenalin junkie living inside me that I didn't know about.

You look tired

Is there a worse comment to hear? I've never understood why people you hardly know feels that it's ok to tell someone else that they look tired. That's the comment that met me when I arrived at work yesterday. Yes I might have worked quite a lot lately and I knew I feel tired, I just didn't realised that it showed that much as well.

My reply was thank you (sarchastic) and he said I said that you look tired as if I didn't hear him the first time.

But no really - Thank you for making my day.

Make up bag out today to try and cover the bags under my eyes....

And then there were four....

My no bread, sweets or alcohol diet was put on hold on Thursday night when we went to Tempo. Both focaccia and dessert was consumed. So when I came home I though might as well tuck into the present that I got from Carin:)

My absolute favourite flavours. The one I ate was whole nut.

Now I'm going to try and be good until the next time I have a special occasion. Maybe Easter. Not too long to wait in that case. It is easier than I though to stick to it this time. We'll see how long it lasts.

I've decided that if I'm going out for dinner etc with friends I'll eat what I fancy but I won't eat any of the three above on just a random day. It feels easier to stick to this way.

The latest one

In my flowers-I'm-trying-not-to-kill collection...

Considering it's the only one I've got left I clearly didn't do very well with the others, but I have high hopes for this one.

Friday morning

We had a lovely night last night at Tempo (as always). Lots of food ciccetti with three different bruschetta (prawns and spinach, peas and picorini and burrata with peppers) and then a risotto with asparagus as well as tiger prawns with lots of garlic before our main courses.

Liam had Vitello, Carin went for Salmon and I got the Sea Bream.

Dessert arrived in the form of lemon tart, chocolate cake and raspberry tart. All accompanied with different ice creams and sorbets - blood orange, mascarpone, hazelnut and amaretto.

Needless to say it was all fantastic and you couldn't even fault it if you tried.

Having my breakfast now before heading off to work. Carin just woke up so we're enjoying the morning together. Won't see them before they go on Monday morning because I'm working doubles all weekend.

A bit grey in London today. I hope you're all having better weather wherever you are. X

Conscious collection

The new collection at H&M was just released and on all the pictures I've seen it has only been white, plain and boring in my eyes. Walking in to the shop I realised that it's all about organic and recycled. Doh! It's in the name. I've just never thought about it before. I'm now in the queue to the fitting room with two dresses. Fingers crosses that they look good on.

14th April

My lovely friend C arrived late last night with her nephew L. We all had a well deserve lie in this morning. Had some breakfast with the Italian before we walked in to town. We've had time for lunch at Yumchaa (off course). And now we're in Top Shop. Off to Tempo tonight for dinner. But first some more shopping. She brought me a very nice present:) I'll show you later.

Busy Week

Turned out that it was quite cold by the time I finished work on Sunday so we only stayed in the park for about an hour and then we went home and had some chocolate and watched criminal minds.

Nothing new there then.

Yesterday I woke up at 6.23 and realised that I was supposed to be at work at 6am. PANIC!

I managed to get there for 7.05 so I did quite well.

Finished at 6pm - too tired for Step Aerobic so went straight home and spent the night with the Italian that was off instead.

I've felt a bit of a cold coming on all weekend and today I had to cancel my spinning because of it, I did however go swimming this morning so it's not too bad.

I've spent the evening sorting out the flat a bit for my visitor who is coming tomorrow night and staying til Monday.

I can't wait.

Unfortunately I am working a lot while she is here, but she is coming with her nephew as well so they will have some quality time together.

I got them some tickets for the Arsenal-Liverpool game on Sunday (he is a Liverpool supporter) so that should be good.

I can't really breath now so I think I might go to bed and try and get some sleep.

Good night.

Sunday

Half an hour left until I finish and I can feel the sun on my skin already.

I got an invite to go to Embassy last night and I was really tempted to go. However, considering how tired I feel today even though I went straight home after work at midnight I think it might have been a good thing that I turned it down this time. Next time...

I am working less Saturday night nowadays so I predict some dancing in the near future. The trouble is the early starts on Sunday mornings but I am hoping to have less of those as well soon. And then I'll be able to enjoy living in London fully.

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Fashion for relief

As always I'm a bit behind with my vogue reading. I was looking through last month issue this morning and found this. I only got an email about it and there wasn't this much information about the event in the email.

At least now it makes a bit more sense. But in the room where Naomi Campbell was, were only about a handful of people let in, so I don't know how much money they'd make for charity if not everybody has got access to it.

At it again

After four hours sleep I woke up and rubbed my eyes and pretended that it was just a bad dream. Surely the alarm didn't just go off. It sure did! Off to work again... Had a battle with the biggest spider I've ever seen. I thought I was cool and was just about to attack it with some toilet paper, when I realised that I was certainly not cool enough so I went into the bedroom with a humble "excuse me..." two seconds later the spider was in the toilet. The Italian claims that he didn't open the window. I didn't open the window, so the spider clearly pushed the window open himself from the outside (yes it was that big).

Another beautiful day today so the Italian and I will probably have a picnic in Green Park when I finish at 5pm. Tjohoo! Have a great Sunday. Xx

She's back:)

Well she might not be completely intact but that doesn't stop me. I am just glad that I don't have to walk to the nearest barclay bike only to find out that there are no bikes left. Or to finally find a bike and then arrive at my destination only to realise that there is no spots to leave the bike. So up I stand and in a weeks time the saddle should arrive and then it'll be just pure bliss.

Saturday afternoon in Victoria park

Glorious sunshine and lots of people sunbathing. Unfortunately I wasn't one of them. I just went through it on my run since I have to be at work at 2pm. My next day off is Thursday and the way it's looking now it seems like it's back down to 12C by then. A shame but what can you do. At least I went running in shorts and singlet top so hopefully some sun caught the eye of my skin and wanted to set up camp there. Here's hoping. Have a great saturday. Seems like Sweden's got great weather this weekend as well. I hope you get to enjoy it. X

Chelsea - Man U

Not as exciting as we would've hoped, but at least it was a gorgeous day. Last time I went to the football it was absolutely freezing and I had to borrow one of their blankets, this time I didn't even need a scarf.

I realised that I hadn't been to Stamford Bridge all season, because everything had changed in the lounge. Even the food was better. I started my no bread, no alcohol, no sweets diet again on Sunday. Didn't go to well. I've had sweets and bread every day and I had cocktails and champagne on Tuesday.

But now - this is it, I am hoping to start it properly from today...

Vogue Event

On Tuesday night I went to Westfield with Vanessa for a Vogue and Tatler event in The Village.

I knew that I didn't have any money right now to be able to buy anything ( I am still catching up from Miam, Madrid and Sweden) but I thought some window shopping and catching up with Vanessa was good enough reason for me to go.

So we had cocktails and cupcakes in Ted Baker, champagne and macaroons in zadig and voltaire (where I fell in love with everything - especially a leather jacket with a scull on the back), sushi in the hallway whilst looking at all the gorgeous people including Naomi Campbell.

Some girlband singing about make up

Beautiful V

We got a hand massage in Dior with their new J'adore fragrance, and I fell in love with these babies that Vanessa is modelling for me.

A really nice evening and I am glad that I could go for once, all the other Vogue events has always been when I was working evenings.

Hopefully I'll be able to attend more in the future when I havent already spent all my money on other things.

Good Morning London

Football

Waiting for my friend outside Earls Court tube station and it is really loud here from all the boys cheering for their team outside the pub. Only two hours left for kick off. I think Their voices will be gone by then....

South Kensington

Haha just lots of pictures of me in the sunshine today. I've now moved on to south Kensington and I'm having a coffee with Robert who's in town for a day.

Great day

I am enjoying the sunshine on my balcony before heading off to south ken to meet a friend for a coffee before the football tonight. Big game! Should be fun. I hope you're all out enjoying the good weather as well.

Day off

I had an appointment by tottenham court road this morning and I thought I'd go to zumba at 1pm, but the sunshine and the generous heat of 20C today made me change my mind. I thought I'd walk home and then I'll go for a run by the canal instead. On my way home I decided to stay here for a bit. So right now I'm sitting in Russell Square in the sunshine hoping for some more freckles on my nose by the end of the day.

Early evening

7.30pm. Still light. St Paul's. Blue sky. Buds on the trees. Just finished a hard body combat workout. Walking home without freezing my butt off. What a great start to the week.

Sunday

My beautiful Senorina arrived from Spain last night and we had time for a breakfast chat this morning before we head back to London.

And now we are all packed and ready to go.

See you back in London.

Saturday

Yesterday was probably the calmest day since I arrived here. Apart from Monday when I was in Stockholm all day it was the only time that I stayed in the same town all day.

We started off with going into town fora bit and the Italian did some shopping.

Afterwards we went to my grans house and had some coffee.

It was a gorgeous sunny day so we decided to head to the football and HBK's first match of the season.

And then back here to my parents house for dinner.

I sat down talking to my niece and didn't realise that she had already moved on to something else.

A lovely day.

Yesterday

Yesterday morning I got the train from Malmö to Copenhagens airport to pick up a gorgeous tall dark Italian man:) I was just about to say that it is so great to have him here with me, but I then realised that I have been up for nearly three hours now and he is still asleep (hence all the blog posts I am throwing out there like there's no tomorrow)

All jokes aside it was lovely to see him, we got on the bus and a few years later we arrived in Halmstad.

Off we went to my sisters house and a beautiful little girl that was very excited to see the Italian ( it was after all nearly two years ago since he saw my niece)

Even though they can't communicate - yet, they quickly became friends and he was thrown into building towers and helping all the animals getting to the farm etc.

In the evening we went out for dinner with my parents.

They haven't seen him since they came to London last May so they were also happy that he finally arrived.

I am now going to see if it is possible to wake him up so we can start this rainy Halmstad day.

Baby cuddles and Pizza

Moving on to Thursday and my dad hada day off, so Thursday became father - daughter day.

We went for a walk by the sea, I would like to say that it was beautiful but it was rainy and windy.

It felt like we got anough fresh air for the rest of the year now.

Afterwards we deserved a mid morning snack so we went to a new cafe and had some tea.

In the afternoon I jumped on the bus and went down to Malmö. I got to meet the new addition to our gang - Freja.

Vide was happy as he was with his new best friend. 

She is so tiny and beautiful

We ordered Pizza and hada lovely time.

Freja's mum and dad didn't seem to get attached to any photos but they were there as well.

A Wednesday in Sweden

My mum is always off on Wednsedays so whenever I happen to be in Sweden mid week we usually have a mother-daughter day.

This time was no different, we decided to go to Helsingborg (about an hours drive south from Halmstad).

On the way we passed Ikea and I realised that I need a few things from there that could fit in my suitcase.

In we went and I found everything I wanted. I've said before that I want to re decorate the flat. At least now I'll hopefully get a little bit of fresh air into it.

The compulsory stop at the Cafe

After a couple of hours in and out of the shops in Helsingborg we stopped at my favourite place "Ebbas Fik", it's really retro and it's got a Jukebox in the corner with really cool music. And the food portions are massive!

We both had jacket potato with prawns. We wanted something sweet afterwards, hard to resist when they have everything you can think of on display.

I really wanted one of their amazing chocolate cakes, but I had to settle for a carrot cake, otherwise I think my body would have screamed. It was all a bit much. Nex time I'll probably skip the potato and go straight for the cakes.

When we got back to Halmstad I dropped off my mum at home and then I went on to go and pick up my niece from nursery. It was such a gorgeous day and I was a bit early so I sat down and enjoyed the sunshine for a few minutes first.

We had a lovely afternoon and when my sister came home we had some dinner and then some sister time as well after my niece went to sleep.

Tuesday Night

As usual when I am in Sweden every minute is planned so therefor I haven't really had much time to sit by the computer.

Here are some pictures from Tuesday night when I got to come with my beautiful friend Annarell to "Innebandy" not sure if it even exists in England let alone what it's called...

I didn't want to participate, instead I got to cuddle and spend time with this little princess:)

And then I got invited to their house for some home cooked Swedish food.

Afterwards we had a girly chat when we went for a long walk in the woods just me and A.

I wish I lived closer and could do these things more often.

A huge present

When we were in Miami I bought a pair of Converse for my niece. I thought they looked massive but better too big than too small I thought.

So the other day I arrived wearing mine and I gave her these. She was so excited that we had the same shoes that she refused to take them off.

Possibly a touch too big.

Next spring we'll be walking on the streets with matching shoes, but until then I think they'll do her more harm than good....