Afternoon tea with the Higginson's

Totterdown art trail was in full effect this weekend, whilst we went on our wanderings

After another fairly stressful start to the week, with both Sam and Eve being ill, it was so lovely to receive a text from our dear friend Ocky asking if her and her husband Dan could pop round with little Arthur at the weekend.

Eve's cold got much worse last weekend and turned into a chest infection, so the doctor prescribed antibiotics (amoxicillin) and nasal drops. Her cough went from being a little baby cough to an adult cough which sounded awful. Thankfully after a few days of the antibiotics she started looking so much better. Unfortunately because of some legal reason nurseries are not allowed to administer antibiotics to children, so we were told that she could not go to nursery for 48 hours - but we still had to pay. Seems like a bit of a mean policy to me, but there we are...

Anyways... so the lovely Higginson's stopped by with homemade banana bread for afternoon tea yesterday. We went for a quick walk and then back home to eat cake, drink beer and warm brews together.

Daddy and Eve

A cool band were playing a selection of drums down in the cemetery as part of the art trail. They were really good. It was cool walking through the woods, hearing the sound of booming beats in the distance.

The cemetery was looking lovely, with winter berries creeping around the tombstones.

I'm so pleased that Eve has her appetite back. I've been getting quite worried as she hasn't been eating much whilst she's been ill. So a good, long dinner with Arthur was just what the doctor ordered!

Eve and Arthur enjoying some broccoli for dinner

This weekend has also seen mine and my husbands 14th anniversary - the date that we got together, and first kissed by the dreaming spires of Oxford.

He's such an old romantic that 10 years after that first kiss, he took me back to Oxford and got down on one knee in the snow, at exactly the same spot and proposed to me. I'm such a lucky girl and I treasure him and my beautiful baby girl.

I have only been out at night two times since I gave birth to Eve last December - and both times she has been with me. So it was with rather great wonder that I went out, minus Eve, with Sam on our anniversary on Friday night to a little pizzeria called 'Acapella' just down the road.

I must say that I fully recommend it. We had a fantastic, candle-lit meal, and the pizza's were outstanding. Lots of people were popping in to collect take-aways, so it had a fun, busy vibe. You can take your own booze too, so it made it quite a cheap meal too, which is always a good thing.

Our waitress was friendly, and the lemon tart was the best I've had for years - reminded me of my mum's lemon meringue pie that she used to make when we were small.

Note to self: do not try to eat a 14" pizza again!!


http://www.acappellas.co.uk/