Foodie Penpals July

I love Foodie Pen Pals. End of. My Penpal this month was the very lovely Lin, of http://linsfood.com/ and she sent me a stonking parcel. I wish computers had smell-o-vision already, I recieved such a beautifully fragrant package!Lin's Homemade Curry Powder - which we tried a smidge of in Fishcakes. Honestly, just the memory of them is making me hungry... I may have to put in a repeat order...  Multi-coloured Pasta - I'm saving these babies for a special occasion. Lin says her guests love these, and I can totally see why.Chilli Oil...

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Olympic Camping

Camping, oh how I love thee. Oh how I hate thee.Forgetting the Olympic opening ceremony was on, we accepted a lovely invitation to go Camping with a group of really good friends.Our 5.5mile tramp, skirting beautiful lakes..Our home for the weekend, sleeping under the Stars (a 101 in 1001 goal!) It was cosy, very very cosy and one of the harder things about Camping - like our friend said when he kindly lent it to us "It's meant to be a 2 man tent, but it's a good thing that you know each other well!". The next time we'll go, I think we'll invest...

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Postcrossing

Another wee hobby I've picked up recently is Postcrossing. Such a nice thing to be dropped in your mailbox "a Postcard exchange project that invites everyone to send and recieve postcards from random places in the world".You +1'd this publicly. UndoTodays Workout: 55minutes Treadmill at 6.3...

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Average, and nice

It's been a pretty quiet week this week so far;Foodie Penpal Packages!Scrummy Vege boxTropical Fruit SmoothieSmoothie BowlsChillin'Sometimes I love my jobBecause the best thing to celebrate an althetic competition is mini-cupcakes, right?Bunny Rabbit free journeysZuuuuuuuumba!Chocolate Frozen Yoghurt. N...

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Queen of the 'burbs

As per my training plan for the walking half-marathon in September, today we were scheduled for an hour and 45 minute walk. With the sun pouring in, and a cloudless blue sky, we knew we had to head out and soak up some Vitamin D whilst we could, instead of blasting tunes & staring at the wall on a treadmill. We decided that instead of looping a nearby park hundreds upon hundreds of times, we would catch the train to Ealing and get our walk on.Map checking told us it would be 4.8miles which felt like a good walk, and as we were feeling...

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Party breakfast

I love Saturday mornings. They are made oh-so-much sweeter by the working week 'schlep' every weekday morning. This morning the clan all arose at about 10 (by clan I also include the cat, though she got up, stretched and went back to sleep...), we fixed ourselves some breakfast and began to plan for the day.Today I discovered Almond butter. A jar has been living in my cupboard, almost mocking me for being a scaredy cat and not trying it. I love peanut butter, but it's not so good for the hips, and when my kind penpal sent a jar of Almond butter...

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Bunny Wrangling

So, the last thing we expected was to be doing was bunny wrangling on our way home from the gym...! We were walking past a green near our house, and we noticed two animals bouncing around under the trees lining the park.This is essentially the main view we had of the fellas Photo Credit Looking closer, its a brown bunny and a white bunny! A hour and a half later, we've managed to keep them away from being squished on the busy road, and 10 people armed with coats, a dust sheet and some hastily ...gathered carrots finally manage...

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Goals

I love lists. I make no apologies for it, and admit that sometimes I make lists of lists, and then lose them, adding ‘find list’ to the items of a new list.Sometimes we find ourselves saying “what are we going to do this weekend?” I love 1001 in 101, solving the twin conundrums above. I stumbled upon the website via the blogs I read, and devoured the fabulous goals people are setting.In order to spice things up a bit, and to ensure we don’t find ourselves wandering aimlessly or sitting on the couch, no matter how much our Puss pins us down, I decided...

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London Kiwi Spotting

Psst look what I found in Regent's Street..Today's workout: 40 minute steady easy walk through Central London from work to Picadilly.Are you as excited as I am for the Olympics? London Ex-Pats, have you seen your flag?...

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International Foodie Penpals

It's here! My eagerly apnticipated trans-atlantic Foodie Penpals swap, has arrived. I was too excited to get a photo of the box on my mat, so here is the big reveal!Clara (of coWWow with her Twitter handle @mmmoomoocowow) lives on the West Coast of the U.S. of A. and sent me the loveliest box of goodies. We amended the usual £10/$15 limit as this was a special arrangement outside of the usual Foodie Penpals. With restrictions on what we could send, due to the time delivery could take, both Clara and I opted to send...

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