One Bank Holiday.

Oh how I'm loving this warm weather right now, I'm really enjoying getting my lunchtime hit of vitamin D and jacketless walks back to the car in the evenings.

Easter weekend passed me by in a drizzly, car-hopping blur, a fun, drizzly car-hopping blur. I was a little sad at how much sun we were promised but it's two weekends ago now so I think I can let it go.

We started on Good Friday with a trip to our friends Richard and Fran's fancy new digs in Gloucester. Our house-hunting trips this year meant I'd kind of seen this house before but Fran has filled it with lovely things and even though their plan is to move into a place all of their own soon, they've done such a great job to make it feel like home already. I was pretty good inspiration for our soon-to-be-home (I'm currently constantly mentally adjusting my Ikea shopping list).




It was our first time in Gloucester but I'm looking forward to going back in sunnier weather. We were lucky enough to be treated to Gloucester's Spring Fest and the best (not-pictured-too-soon-devoured) hog-roast bap. Lots of cute stalls from independent retailers filled the dockyard, just our kind of thing, and it sounds like a similar, smaller scale version happens fortnightly, which just sounds like a treat.








After an evening of drinks and board games and a morning of good breakfasts and the muddiest walk, we hopped in the car and back home to sort out my Easter pavlova before heading to my Gran's for a family gettogether.







Thank goodness boot-season is coming to an end...!






And I guess family-time was how the rest of the weekend continued, even if Sunday afternoon and Monday morning mainly meant going all out helping my mum sort out her garden. There were actually technically still Easter eggs in our house until yesterday so this post isn't as late as it seems - also note the remarkable restraint(!)

Easter Weekend Photo Diary.

My Easter Weekend was quite varied, beginning in London followed by New Malden, Epsom, Dorking and home again. All of it all resulted in eating everything, maybe even more so than Christmas(!) It was a good weekend for discovering new things (hello, coconut oil) and spending time with friends and family.

It wasn't all that great for taking photographs though, which I blame entirely on the weather - and maybe a bit of a lack of planning when it came to popping into London. We were there to watch Punch Drunk's The Drowned Man in the evening and really could have been more productive prior to 5pm rather than going all the way to East London just to pop to The Diner - that burger though...!
The Drowned Man was wonderful and like nothing I've ever seen before, I might write more about that later.








We finished up our Friday night with a documentary about honey badgers before setting out on Saturday morning to visit our friends Matt and Tom - I'm already looking forward to a proper catch up next weekend! Saturday evening brought us a Johnston family party, which I wish I'd taken more photos at, I think I definitely will for the next one.


Dessert-spread.
Sunday and Monday were fairly similar, we placed pretty high in the pub quiz on Sunday night - beating Pete from Dry the River and his team, apparently we actually share a local, Newbury is weird. We mooched around Newbury Food Festival on both days, rain or shine, you can't keep me away from free samples of artisan(ish) food.

Monday was much nicer weather-wise and my Gran and sister popped over for a visit, which was lovely as although I saw them a couple of nights before, they haven't been over here in a while.


Big and beautiful Leonbergers. ♥





Unfortunately the rain meant my delicious pulled pork tortilla from Tacada got cold pretty quickly, still, such nomz!


I made beetroot-crust pizza, it looked neat but didn't add or take anything away. Much extra faff compared to my usual homemade pizzas.



We won some wine! Fingers crossed for as good result this week, we're quizzing like pros lately, 3 weeks running!



Cupcakes feat. edible lego.



Guess the number of olives in the jar. My guess was 586.







Granny Johnston confirming what I have always known - I'm from a family of cat-botherers. ♥
All in all a quite a quiet one, I just keep telling myself that 'April Showers Bring May Flowers' but I'd much prefer to be out and about without a coat or umbrella in-tow. Rain makes me quite nervous, I'm afraid I can't quite embrace it.