Spring in the Cotswolds.

It's been a little bit cooler here in the last few days but last weekend really gave me a real vitamin D kick!
And hey, it's England and yeah, I broke out the sunglasses and sandals and yeah, it's a bit ridiculous but it's also completely fine.

After watching the Six Nations at our friend Long's house (I say watching, I didn't really, sorry, not sorry) the following morning was absolutely glorious. It was the perfect opportunity to take advantage of how close we were to the intriguing Cotswolds Water Park.



Long and his girlfriend had other plans so Moon and I headed over with our other friend, Simon. It's truly beautiful and after seeing online that there were activities such as wind-sailing and mini golf and that there was a lakeside beach, I really wasn't sure what to expect. Something a bit lame I should expect, but it totally wasn't, I'd love to head over there again.




Set on the edge of the Cotswolds amongst several lakes, with beautiful Scandinavian lake houses, this place was amazing for good dog spotting. We took a little plod around the main park's lake - there are lots of different attractions by each lake but a lot of them are private - before heading over to the, ultimately terrible but still really fun, mini golf. It was then pub lunchtime before the three of us parted ways with Moon and I riding home with roof down.























Not quite as pretty as a Cotswold lakeside but in other news we also got all the weeding done and lawn mowed when we got home. Needless to say, we were on fire last Sunday!

It was such a wonderful day, so nice to not feel chilly or worry about jackets. Getting out and enjoying the day early seems to be the key to a great weekend, it's worked pretty well for this weekend too! I love a lie-in, but when you're up before 7 on a normal weekday, getting out of bed by 9 is enough even if it's still cosy. Really realising oversleeping doesn't do as much for me as it feels like it should.

So, happy Sunday, hope you've had a nice weekend! ♥

Little Buddy.

It's only Monday and it's already one of those weeks that definitely needs an eighth day. I have so many ideas and things I want to get done but I just don't have the time, and I don't even have work to blame, I don't know where all my time is going.

Only I would get a whole weekend off on the same weekend where my boyfriend, who I hardly see considering we live together, has to work on Saturday. All things considered though, I had a pretty nice weekend. Here are some photographs I took on Sunday, we had Moon's family down and went out for a nice lunch, sidelining into an obligatory mini-tour of Newbury, hopefully it will be the last one we do for a while as everyone who needed to visit now has.

---

I gave lemonade another shot which much more success, so much nicer than my pink lemonade efforts, and I didn't even follow the recipe very well.
Who would have thought lemons, sugar and water could taste so good?





Cat News: Moon and Doll have seriously bonded in the last couple of weeks, I don't know how it's happened but I could almost say he feels as though she's his cat too now. Makes me feel so nice. ♥


I really wish the farmer's market in Newbury was bigger, I'd be able to see more characters like this chap.

Steak & Chips at The Lock, Stock and Barrel; definitely one of my new favourite places to eat in Newbury and it's right on the canal too.




I picked up some old National Geographics from the YMCA shop, I love the vintage adverts, and hope to use them for something soon.

---

I have quite a few posts lined up and lots of photos to share, it was so nice to have the time to snap away, even if there's little time for much else at the moment.

Public House.

On Friday night I made the journey down to Dorking - from work and everything - to head out to Guildford to meet up with mine and Moon's friends, Jason and Michelle, who we went to Glastonbury with a couple of years ago.
It was really good to see them again and it's a shame that they we can't see them that often because they live so far away usually, but occasionally they make the trip down to Dorking to see Jason's parents.

We joined them in Guilford and headed to a little pub called The Brittania, thank God, we weren't hanging out on Onslow Steet. I find that Guilford is an average town at best and at a push I could see why people might think it's a good place to go shopping, but it all goes to hell on a Friday and Saturday night. Now, I like a dance and drink as much as the next person, but doing those kind of things in the gropey, lairy vomfest that is Guilford town centre at the weekend can get a bit stressful.
It was a pretty good catch up though with some chatting and a few drinks. <3

This is the trouble with more 'local' places. I'm not sure if this is an inside joke but I'm fairly certain that these lyrics are wrong.

Moon appears to have decided that he wants to look like a grump in any photo that I take of him. I don't know why, maybe he wants everyone to think that he doesn't like me :(
I have notified him of his grumpy face and that just seems to have inflamed the issue and he's now definitely doing it on purpose.

Back to work tomorrow so I'm getting a couple of 'what I did a the weekend' posts out of the way. Stay tuned. x