The Good Life

We've gone a bit Good Life today at Chez Wyld. Just a bit mind you. We took Henry blackberry picking this afternoon, and while he's not yet much help he seemed to have a good time. I plan to try this super easy microwave jam recipe from my lovely friend Weezl's blog http://weezl.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/easy-peasy-microwave-jam/. If it's a success I foresee many afternoons spent blackberry picking in our future.

I very highly recommend Weezl's blog to anyone looking to eat healthily but more frugally. We love many of her recipes, including the breakfast pancakes and the houmous. In fact I have made a big batch of roasted onion houmous today, which will be lunches for this week sorted.

Flirting with the darkside...

I have a confession to make...I have recently been flirting with the darker side and frequenting Costa! "Why?" I hear you shout, well certainly not for the coffee, or my beloved decaf skinny mocha, but I have taken a real shine to their iced tea. Starbucks don't do such a thing, so I am forced to don a disguise and slink into a secluded Costa to get my fix. My favourite is the original- it is sweet and cucumbery and not unlike a non-alcoholic Pimms. Perfect on a sunny day like today, hence why DH and I found ourselves sipping drinks in Costa while our son napped this afternoon.....just don't tell the boss.