One25

It's been a mad couple of weeks for various reasons and this week's Apprentice style challenge only added to the craziness. It was for a great cause, a local charity in Bristol called one25 which helps to rehabilitate sex workers, providing them with a friendly place to collect their thoughts and seek device with the aim of getting them off the streets and on the right path. We met up at 9am and separated into teams, the aim of the day being to raise as much money as possible for the charity, though auction prize and cash donations. We had a great response and raised over £11k for the charity in one day between 8 people.

Oooh what's this happening in Bath

Saw some sets going up for a period drama in Bath, wonder what it is?

Zoo time!

Took a lovely trip to Bristol Zoo this weekend with my adorable nieces Madeline and Coralie.

I thought I would be super excited about the Jubilee celebrations this week. Maybe it was the weather that dampened my spirits, maybe it was the incessant coverage on the TV of slow boating movements, soggy paintings and lots of waiting around but my heart wasn't really in it. I watched about 10 minutes of the Flotilla, or floater as we like to refer to it and then switched off for the rest of the weekend. As an avid collector of Royal memorabilia (in particular mugs) I thought I would be loving it, but somehow the memorabilia was more exciting than the event itself. Anyway, weather aside, I did have a lovely weekend. Starting of with the soggy Dot to Dot festival in Bristol with my Manchestaaa chum Fran and pals, followed by a Cornish family get-together, A gorgeous dinner party in the briefly sunny Bathford, Latino lunch with yummy mummy's Sarah, Polly and stunning baby Faith and ending in a day of Gym action, St Nicolas Market browsing and munching with my favourite boy, Chris. Busy, busy, but entirely lovely.

Bento Beauty

Last night was my surprise night out for Chris (we each do one a month). I bought tickets to see Alt-J at the Cooler and we started the night with a Japanese meal at Masa. We both ordered bento boxes which were yummy! Mine had teriyaki salmon, seafood tempura, salad, pickled mooli, miso soup, steamed sticky rice and huge, jumbo grilled king prawns. It really was pretty good. Then off to Alt-J who were great too. A good night.