Saturday mornings

We have settled into a bit of a Saturday morning routine with the girls. If it's a week when we can have a few hours together we do a major outing; if we don't have as much time then we have to do a Nature walk with Abi and a baking session with Ella to make the morning complete.

We took the girls to the just completed parkland for our C5 apartment in Campbell, on Saturday morning a week ago.......  

It's all very raw and new but Ella and Abi were very excited by the spaces, the endless (and super safe) looping cyclepaths, the water course and bridges - the hi-tech swings and play equipment......

 ..the fitness course and the interesting play spaces. The girls have given our park in Campbell a big tick (phew)!

Last Saturday was a baking morning.  Any form of chocolate (and sugar) is the basis for all our baking efforts. We like Donna Hay's recipe ideas while the Primrose Hill Bakery girls are the inspiration for our icings.

Ella loves her baking and is a keen follower of a number of bloggers with catchy names like Ro and Mo and Brooklyn and Bailey, who specialise in baked goodies. Matilda (Tilly) Ramsey's (daughter of Gordon) cooking blog is another favourite of Ella's.

It means I'm no longer the baking guru and Ella has had to teach me a few new techniques (which sometimes I don't agree with...especially the one about cutting the tops off your cakes so the icing goes on more neatly!!!!!!!!!)

However, some things never change - everyone still loves scraping the icing bowl........

 ..and the beaters.....

.....and having the last word!