Stir up Saturday

I made my puddings on Saturday this year as I was busy all day on Sunday, singing at Peter's church for their Patronal Festival of Christ the King, and then later playing in Vivaldi's Gloria at All Saints Putney for Alison's choir. A lovely day of music-making, and also lovely food - a shared lunch at Christ Church, and high tea with Catherine in Putney.

Here's the 'Before' picture ........

 

They have had 6 hours steaming, just need a couple more on the day. One for us, one for Mummie, one for Breda.

Teddy Axtell goes to a Conference

It was our annual Take your Teddy to School Day yesterday, to raise money for Children in Need. I was going to a Conference at Brunel University, so Teddy Axtell came with me. He offered his vast knowledge and experience, which was greatly appreciated, and he enjoyed the buffet lunch.

 

 

French Fancies

My trip to Lille was rewarded with these lovelies, in the deliciously named 'Ding Fring' for 1 euro 50 all in!

These very typical bowls (bargain for 1 euro 50 each in Monoprix) complement these gorgeous tins I bought recently from Happy Loves Rosie's shop. She got them in Lille as well. Check out her beautifully bright and cheerful blog here: http://www.happylovesrosie.co.uk 

Happy Halloween!

Woooh! Have fun bobbing for apples, trick-or-treating and eating pumpkin pie, watching out for ghouls, ghosts, witches and sorcerers!

 I love pumpkins; their shape, colour and taste.



 I snapped these marvellous examples in Lille yesterday; more about that later.



  How sweet are these little tiny ones!

Made of marzipan! How delicious!

Happy Second Birthday, Blog!

sky-blu-pink is two years old tomorrow!

 

Thankyou for visiting, and for all your sweet comments, dear readers!

Autumn

Autumn is well and truly here, but a bit damp for my liking. I love cold crisp days with bright sunshine and blue skies, but there is too much precipitation in the air at the moment! These wonderful pumpkins and squashes were on display in the organic Whole Foods shop in Camden.

I was inspired to make  roasted butternut squash, carrot and parsnip soup, with warm spices, and very nice it was too!

Nice Green Cafe

I went to the Vintage Fashion Fair in Primrose Hill yesterday. Cecil Sharp House on Regents Park Road is worth visiting for the building alone, a classic Art Deco red brick with a fab Bloomsbury-esque mural in the main hall. I found some very nice vintage buttons which I shall show when they adorn the cardigan and jacket I had in mind, but the real star is the Nice Green Cafe in the basement. So pretty and shabby-chic, rather like the Neighbourhood cafe in Liverpool.
(here: sky-blu-pink.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/neighbourhood-cafe.html).
Just how I'd like my kitchen to look!

 

 

Worth the walk from Camden Market if you want to avoid the crowds for a tea / coffee break with delicious homemade cakes, it's always quiet and peaceful, Today I was treated to a glimpse of some Morris Dancers (fit young men with big sticks who looked more like Rugby players!) and some graceful Regency dancers floating round in circles, like a rehearsal for a Jane Austen adaptation-for-televsion!

 

Still a few blooms clinging to life!

 

 

 

I wish they still sold monkeys and talking parrots here! Instead, it's a Tea Shop!

 

A couple of interesting things decorating buildings near Mornington Crescent