The Rabbit Hole // In This Moment

I'm laid up in bed being ill and pathetic. Which is fine, as it is a bank holiday and I had no plans. I forced myself to get up to find some food and the Doctor Who easter egg my brother and niece gave me looked massively inviting. Especially as it came with marshmallows. So it is now sat next to me in the form of hot chocolate waiting to be drunk.
I hope Jonny won't mind as we were meant to share this egg, but I'll give him some of another one to make up for it.

Yesterday we had a big family lunch, and for pudding I did the unthinkable and baked a cheesecake. I wouldn't have done this if I'd chosen the pudding, but I rather stupidly said to Mum 'find something I haven't done before and buy the stuff and I'll do it.'

I am in general very anti baked cheesecake as I've never had a good one. They get a skin on when you bake them, and I just think it would be so much nicer if left to chill.
My one was tasty, but I couldn't eat the edge as it did get a skin on it. Also because by the time I got to that bit I was stuffed and overdone. I'd served up Libby sized portions and really the only one who could finish them easily was my big brother, who is in training for the marathon.

After lunch we had the egg hunt where Mum and Dad hide eggs around the back of our house (I'd love to be able to say garden one day) and we all manage to find enough childish excitement to go and find them.

On the egg front I got more than I ever would have done when I was a child. It was one big egg and the hunt back then. This year I got the one from brother, a percy pig one from my parents, a small lindt bunny from my parents, a cow from Jonny and the other lindt bunny from Jonny's mum.
It is not a good thing.

And Doctor Who is back on TV! I was nervous but enjoyed it a lot, I think I'll get used to Matt Smith as the Doctor, but still managed to count all the things he said that Ten also said and cried a little bit when they showed all the past Doctors.

It has been a good Easter.

Dude (Looks Like a Lady) // Aerosmith

Happy Easter everyone! I'm having a relaxed weekend while Jonny is off seeing family. We met up with friends yesterday for a day in the pub, we got quite settled in and played cards and backgammon and Jonny arranged an egg hunt! It was really good fun, despite being pushed in the back in competition for an egg.

Jonny took some lovely pictures for me yesterday of the egg hunt eggs and the lindt bunnies his lovely Mum gave to us, one of which is sat next to me half eaten.

I must be the luckiest blogger ever, having a professional photographer at my command. I think he's amazing.

Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire) // Meat Loaf

It's be quite an amazing, important week for me.

Firstly, it's pancake season. I think that there should be a law passed that means everyone must have at least one pancake on shrove tuesday.
I am very passionate about pancakes. My Mum's are the best. I am passionate about what a pancake should be. Thin. Batter made with egg. None of this vegan malarky.
I've got into quite a few debates about pancakes, and always run out of arguments, I guess it's just my snobbishness in the end.
Jonny decided to put my passion to the test and cooked me 4 pancakes for a blind tasting.
They were to be one animal-product-tastic-homemade batter;


one vegan homemade batter (soya milk and flour AKA wallpaper paste), one made from Shake-to-Make Betty Crocker pancake mix and a mystery one...
I tested each one with lemon and sugar. I thought it would be easy to work out which was which.
I was massively wrong. I guessed the mystery one, it was foul. Disgusting. Bleeurghh. This was a week ago and it still makes me feel a bit ill to think of it.
It was a ready made pancake from tesco. Need I say more.
My favourite turned out to be the Betty Crocker, which is massively shameful, but I will say that hours of product development went into making sure that mixture turns out the perfect pancake everytime.


I also thought the vegan one was the non-vegan. I'm humiliated. But heh now I know that I will eat either.

Betty Crocker:

Delia:

Tesco:

Vegan:

On the actual day I had lunch at Jonny's which involved my first savoury pancake - bacon and maple syrup. Wow. I'll have that again. And then for pudding we had nutella filled ones.
Then I went home to my Mum and she cooked me 4 - all of which were lemon and sugar.
This took my pancake total up to 11.
Then on Wedenesday we invited a load of friends over for a pancake evening


I couldn't even begin to guess how many pancakes were cooked. We made the batter using 10 eggs and got through a block of butter frying them. We'd asked people to bring toppings. Lots of fresh fruit, lemon, nuttella and maple syrup. Plus some dodgy icecream sauces courtesy of Will.

Oh and I know that marmite filled pancakes were consumed.
I ate 9 more that night. So I have had 20 pancakes in a week. I'm proud. Nothing will stop me being proud. Oh bugger my ipod has picked this fantastic moment to play fat bottomed girls.

Secondly it's been an important week for me as my lovely boss left and I've stepped into her shoes and taken on the role of officey manager sort of thing. Which is very exciting. To be honest it doesn't change my job that much, but I am allowed to hit people if they don't recycle properly.

Thirdly (last one, promise) it's been an important week as I came off my medication this week. On Tuesday infact. I was only ill for 6 months and it sometimes seems like a very long time with the changes I went through with my career and then sometimes it seems like a massively short time. I was very ill when I was at my lowest, and now I'm back on form and properly happy. When it started it felt like it would be a lot longer.
So a gushing thank you to all my amazing friends and my brothers who kept me going, especially Becci who I'm sure would have done anything I asked during that time.
And mostly to Jonny who got the worst of it but was there for me every single time I needed him. I don't think I will ever be able to do anything for him on that scale.