Holographic!

I'd seen a few mentions of Gosh Holographic nail varnish and I'm a sucker for a trend, so when I spotted one lonely bottle in Superdrug I snapped it up. I'm usually rubbish with nail varnish and very rarely wear it, but this is actually really easy to apply!

A bit of sunshine...

The weather's been awful just lately so it was lovely to get a little bit of autumn sunshine!

Tube strike survival kit...

Today we had a Tube strike, so I made sure I was prepared! I was all set to walk to work if necessary (it's only about five and a half miles) and even though reports said my bit of the Tube network was running normally, I wasn't taking any chances so I brought my trainers and map and easy-to-carry rucksack just in case. Thankfully in the end I didn't have any problems whatsoever - I felt quite bad listening to the people at work who commute from the other side of town (or from parts of west London with no Tube service today) describing their hellish journeys!

Sloes...

One of the first photos I posted on this blog was of the 2009 sloe gin bottling - and now we've picked this year's sloes and they're in big jars with lots of gin and sugar!

Carnival!

Carnival is a pretty big deal in Somerset, but none of my London friends seem to have a clue what I'm talking about when I mention it! This weekend was Ilminster Carnival and it was great fun despite the rain!

Weekword: Ten

Domestic Scribbles chose this week's word - ten.

My first thought was, seeing as October is the tenth month and it's also my birthday month, to find a photo of my tenth birthday. My mum always used to make wonderful cakes for our birthdays, so I confidently assumed there'd be a photo of me blowing out the candles on a fantastic birthday cake. Unfortunately, 1991 was the year I chose a local swimming pool for my birthday party, and we only have a few photos of a soggy-looking me! So here's a photo of me aged ten instead.

Sticky spicy apple cake...

My parents have a bumper crop of apples at the moment, so they're going into every sort of cake and crumble you can think of! This one was gorgeous - plenty of nutmeg and a crunchy sugar and honey topping.