As you may have guessed I love Christmas.
Every year Leigh and I alternate spending time with my family and Leigh's and this year it was my turn for Christmas Day and Leigh's for Boxing Day. I am pleased about this because my brother is moving to Australia in January and we don't know how long he will stay so it was nice to have all the family together.
It's so special spending time with family and although it's hectic it's so much fun. I'm so sad its over for another year because I really do wish it could be Christmas everyday!
I hope you all had a very lovely Christmas :)
xxx
I feel recently that my blog has become quite the cooking blog and I haven't really talked about much else at all, so I thought I would do a little update post about what's been going on this month.
In November it was my best friend's birthday and she had a mustache themed party so we all decked our furry undernose accessories and played a few rounds of beer pong (I won my go I might add) and had a cracking night.
I have had my work Christmas party which was a lot of fun - I wore this dress from New Look which was sparkly, twinkly and lovely.I teamed it with this gold tassel necklace (also from New Look) and I was good to go.
We went to a bar/club by St. Paul's called Patch which was really good, there were little mini burgers and little mini mince pies being taken round on platters and we were allowed 5 drinks vouchers which helped the Christmas spirit along nicely. I do love a Christmas party.
In non festive news I have just finished my second essay of the course which was on Jane Eyre. For my sins I had never actually read Jane Eyre before and I have no idea why because it was quite brilliant. I really recommend it, some times you just need to get back to the
classics because (and I know this is often said) they just don't make
them like that anymore. I have just ordered the 2011 film to watch as well and I am quite looking forward to it.
It was my favourite person's birthday this month and we went out to Wagamama's for dinner. I do enjoy a wagamama's, it's all so tasty and it was nice to get out of the kitchen and have someone else cook the meal!
I have been a little bit clumsy this month and I fell down the stairs. I was wearing some new cozy socks and I slipped at the top of my stairs and fell down all 14 of them, which means I am in quite a bit of pain when I try to sit down. I've been to the doctor and they told me that I haven't broken my coccyx but I have really badly damaged the muscle so they have signed me off work for a week which means I don't have to go back into the office until the 2nd January! Which seems like a long time off but it mean I will have plenty of time to rest it which it needs.
This weekend it was the 'Friends Christmas Lunch', I get together with my best friends and we pick a name out of a hat and they get to host the evening, which we all contribute to. This year my friend Callum was hosting and I was in charge of pigs in blankets, canapes and parsnips! I made some scrumptious Camembert puffs which I will be posting about very soon. It's lovely to to take the time to sit down with the people that are important. I am aware that sounds about as cheesy as a Christmas cheese board but I don't care because it's true.
It's so close to Christmas now!
xxx
