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Chronicling the adventures, travels, eats, reads, and inspirations of Krystle and Felicity; two women in love.
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How to feel like a Borrower...

We recently gained ownership of a giant cupcake cake tin (by Eddingtons) and decided to give it a test run by baking a belated birthday cake for Krystles mum. We decided to make carrot cake (one of y...

16 Aug 11

Food: Zombie Cookies

The other day we both got addicted to the game, Plants vs Zombies, which involves fighting off the un-dead with an army of home-grown produce. Then last night we indulged in a zombie TV show marathon...

23 Jul 11

We are proud parents...

This is Lucky. She is a lovely little cat that has adopted us. She likes dancing about to the Backstreet Boys (Backstreets Back), tea bags, snuggles, and watching us chase away the evil tomcat (her n...

19 Jul 11

Food: Chocolate and Peppermint Tea Cupcakes

It would seem that were on a bit of a using tea leaves in baking binge. I wanted to make some sugar cookies infused with Peppermint Tea like the recent Raspberry Leaf Tea ones I made for us, but at t...

15 Jul 11

Food: Raspberry Leaf Tea Sugar Cookies

A while ago Krystle and I tasted some gorgeous Earl Grey Tea infused biscuits from Marks and Spencer and ever since then Ive wanted to re-create them for us. Seeing as in the near future we plan on w...

14 Jul 11 1 person likes this

Food: Lemon and Honey Curd

Honey isnt really a much healthier substitute to sugar in baked items. I thought that perhaps it would and so I did some websearching about using honey as an alternative in a Diabetic diet. I read th...

13 Jul 11

Food: Lemon and Honey Curd

Honey isnt really a much healthier substitute to sugar in baked items. I thought that perhaps it would and so I did some websearching about using honey as an alternative in a Diabetic diet. I read th...

26 Jun 11

Food: Lemon, Honey & Poppy Seed Scones

Years ago I found a recipe for Lemon & Poppy Seed scones that I wanted to try out, but Krystle and I live in the kind of place where youd get a curious look if you asked for poppy seeds in the local ...

24 Jun 11

Food: Courgette (aka Zucchini) flowers stuffed with Blue Cheese & Mushrooms

On Tuesday I cooked up something a little bit different for Krystle and I. In our previous post we quickly mentioned how we had found out that the bright golden yellow flowers on courgette plants wer...

23 Jun 11 1 person likes this

Our Summer Project: The Windowsill Vegetable Patch

Here is a quick succession of photographs to show how our little vegetable (and strawberry) windowsill garden is coming along. The bright marigold colour flowers have come out on the courgette plants...

20 Jun 11

The greenery of North Wales

Trefriw, Conwy County, WalesBetws-y-Coed, Conwy Valley, WalesSnowdonia National Park, North WalesThe Great Orme, Llandudno, Conwy County, Wales

18 Jun 11

Llandudno, Conwy County, Wales

There are so many photographs (and weve not yet had our film developed too) and so many things to write about that I dont know where to start. Of course, there was the haunted hotel room as explained...

11 Jun 11

Back again.

Were back from our vacation in the North of Wales and super tired. Here are a few quick photographs of the view from our (third) hotel room balcony in Llandudno. We had quite the hotel experience. Ou...

10 Jun 11

The Group of Seven

Whilst sat on wikipedia (I know...) looking up hopeful topics for my ensuing dissertation meeting I came across a Canadian art group called The Group of Seven. Why have I never heard of this group be...

04 Jun 11

The Virtues of Film

Here are a few photographs taken with our Diana Mini with Flash. I havent used a film camera or even a lomographic camera in quite a while. Not since a trip to Kuala Lumpur, I think, when I ran about...

03 Jun 11

Amsterdam through the lens of a Diana Mini: Part two

Krystle

02 Jun 11

Amsterdam through the lens of a Diana Mini: Part one

Felicity

01 Jun 11

One year

One year ago (In gay time that would be maybe 5 years. We should really have a mortgage and kids by now. Just kidding.) today Krystle and I became an official couple. Weve been celebrating for the pa...

31 Mai 11

Gifts for geeks

Whilst whiling away a spare hour online I happened to find a plethora of nerdy drool-worthy things to put on mine & Krystles wishlist. It all began with the incredibly personal library kit which I fo...

29 Mai 11

Amsterdam

Were back from Amsterdam. We didnt end up taking lots of photographs with our digital cameras. Instead we snapped away with our Diana Mini cams, but above are some taken with my Nikon.Krystle and I w...

28 Mai 11

Sushi!

Krystle and I LOVE sushi (thats not a euphemism, not in this post specifically anyway). We have made our own sushi once before as we tend to be giant nerds and have activity nights where we watch fil...

24 Mai 11

Reading material

If there is one thing we both buy a ridiculous (and unnecessary amount) of it is... books. There really is nothing quite like the feel of a book in ones hand or resting on ones chest at night, snuggl...

23 Mai 11

Tomorrows impending art history exam

Tomorrow at 9:30 I have a one hour art history exam. One hour. One hour in which to summon up everything Ive seen, analysed, and learned in the past six months; (ROME) 16th century Italian Baroque an...

22 Mai 11

Burton Agnes Hall (part one)

Yesterday, Krystle and I took a break out of our essay writing schedule to take a trip into the countryside to visit Burton Agnes Hall. Burton Agnes is a grand Elizabethan stately home just five mile...

22 Mai 11

"If you look the right way, youll see the whole world is a garden."

These hand embroidered illustrations by Jillian Tamaki are incredible. My particular favourite is Tamakis take on Frances Hodgson Burnetts The Secret Garden. The colours are fantastic and I love the ...

21 Mai 11

Five Senses (May 20, 2011)

Seeing: an alarming amount of junk/paper work to be shredded, the sun setting (thus my entire room bathed in gold), laptop screen, lots of movies (Dont Look Now, Aliens, Boys on the Side, The Night L...

20 Mai 11

Les Fleurs

Just some photographs of flowers that Ive taken on our visits to the park so far this Spring/Summer. I especially love the golden flowers in the first two pictures. I wish I knew what plant it was! I...

18 Mai 11

Going somewhere?

Seeing as Krystle and I are about to commence packing for a Summer of adventures (Amsterdam, Wales, and London), as soon as our last essays of the academic year are hand in, Ive been eyeing up some f...

16 Mai 11

One of many Summer projects

This quickly ensuing Summer we have some projects to be getting on with. One of the main ones involve growing lots of lovely things, mainly vegetables (and some herbs and fruits as well as flowers). ...

15 Mai 11

Night of the Hunter

Guess who has tickets to see the amazing Tori Amos at the Manchester Apollo in November??? *runs around like excited children on E numbers* Yes, we only saw her perform in Dublin last summer BUT its ...

14 Mai 11

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