Breakfast at E5!

Ronan came yesterday for a spontaneous one night visit to London.

Today we went out for breakfast, apparently a little too early for regular Londoners on a sunday. Everything was closed so our direction kept changing and our appetite building until we reached 5E Bakery. It was nice to try something new for a change, I have never sat down to eat there before. As always there was so much yummy bread and cake, but I settled for some yogurt and of cause a cup of coffee. 

Something Royal

There is nothing more exiting than coming home to a slip from Royal mail, telling you that there is a parcel for you when you are not expecting anything. You wonder if you have forgot about a recent Amazon order, but come to the conclusion that it must be something else.
There is the overnight anticipation where you keep asking yourself who might have send you something. Different people come into mind, but you really don't have a clue.
And then when you go to the postoffice you tiptoe over the counter to try and see if you recognize the handwriting on the parcel and they finally hand it to you and you turn it around to learn the identity of its sender.
After there is the walk home, where you have time to wonder what it could possibly be. You judge the size and the weight of the package like a naughty child at Christmas time. And then when you are home and you open it, it never contains what you have imagined.

That happened to me today, and I have to say I would never have guessed to receive a French specialty by mail. It made me very happy; not only the actual cake, but the whole process. Those kinds of things rarely happen anymore. 
So thanks to Ronan for giving my weekend a great start. 

Bright Croche Octopuses!

Do you remember this?
Well, a friend of mine recently had twins and so I decided to try and do some crochet animals for them. This was the first time I was crocheting and I was exited if they would turn out nice, but in the end I was really happy with my two octopuses, though they were not exactly identical.

I found the octopus pattern here. But made them slightly bigger than it suggests.

A Secret Place!

I've been walking pass this building many times and wondering what was inside. It is one of those 50's modern entrances and I always thought it was beautiful. Yesterday Ronan took my inside and it turns out it is a gym. The old architecture was still there and I thought how great it must be to do ones training in a place like that. The blue railing was just amazing and I loved how the paint is sligthly coming down the walls. No doubt I wanted to get my camera out.

Impressions from Indre and Le Pellerin

Today it seemed that spring was gone and it suddenly turned into summer. It was perfect for a little planed roadtrip and for once I felt like my curse of rain was broken. While eating lunch I sat in my t-shirt and got a bit of sunburn.
I went to Indre and Le Pellerin together with Ronan to see a bit of the area around Nantes and Loire. It was great to see some countryside. Both Indre and Le Pellerin were colorful, idyllic and very calm and all the houses along Loire that seemed only to be occupied over the summer made me dream of going there and undo the shutters, opening up the house for the season, sit on the balcony and enjoy the view and tranquility while having a glass of wine.

Favorite colors

Lunch view