Oh Sinnerman, Where You Gonna Run To?

This weekend Alex and I are making the trip back to her parent's home.

It's always nice to have some home cooked food, and tonight we should hopefully (finally) learn to play poker.

On a side note, I'm completely falling in love with jazz and blues again. Nina Simone and Billie Holiday absolutely blow my mind. I need to buy a record player to have in our home. My other one is too large, it's a vintage Bang & Olufsen and is stored at my parents home.

Lea

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Never give up, it's such a wonderful life [no.2]

{Apple pie and cream whilst reading blogs on a cold rainy night}

I can't believe how fast time flies, the nights are closing in ever quicker and it seems that every time I step out of my front door the cold wind bites that bit harder.

This will, however, always be one of my favourite times. The darker, romantic evenings, the comfort of walking into a warm cosy home after a hard day. Comfort food and the return of a good hot chocolate.

Halloween is coming up, and a trip to London to celebrate bonfire night, along with our anniversary. There seems to be so much colour and warmth in our lives at the moment.

You'll see that we have a new addition to our little family. She's called CoCo, and she's a dwarf lionhead. She brings us so much happiness and laughter. It's hard to imagine the times when we would be covered up under blankets before bed, watching or listening to something to pass the time without little CoCo being sat at our feet.

{A fluffy friend who reminds me of a lovely day trip to Chester Zoo, with a present of my favourite sweets}

{Little CoCo. Incidentally the easiest animal I have ever litter trained!}

Lea

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Never give up, it's such a wonderful life [no.1]

This week Alex and I decided to go out at night on a whim and see what happened. Leeds is such a vibrant place, there's always something going on. We had no plan, we hopped on a bus and wandered around the city. We decided to head down to the docks to Brewery Wharf, and ended up sat by the water in a bar/restaurant called Oracle. We had gourmet burgers which were amazing, mine was chicken bacon and avocado, and french martini cocktails. As the week progressed on, I discovered a love of a childhood favourite of mine once more, white chocolate Rice Crispie cakes. They're so easy, just melt a quarter of a tub of butter and a packet of marshmallows in a pan, stir in Rice Crispies and then once they've been off the heat for 5 minutes, stir in white chocolate chips. They're amazing after 5 more minutes, sticky and warm. My final craving at the moment is a rabbit, the one in the picture is my rabbit from my parents home. He's so so old now, and I'd love to adopt a new bunny to have with me in my new house.

Lea x

My Week So Far

This week seems to have been completely hectic, and it's only tuesday! I am however counting from Sunday, so please forgive me. Most of it so far has been filled with redecorating my room in Leeds, I wish I had taken a before and after shot, but when it's finished I'll post a picture of the end result. Lets just say so far, 2 days of solid hard work are paying off, it's so much cleaner and brighter when you introduce white gloss paint and magnolia, rather than the entire matt emulsion mess that covered every surface before, (light switches and doorhandles included). A lot of hard work has gone in to it so far and I'm only half done.

I can't even begin to put it into words how awful I'm finding being away from Alex so constantly. I just can't sleep on my own and my parents seem to have no notion of it whatsoever. I"m getting too tired.

This weekend will mark Alex's 22nd birthday and we will be celebrating in Leeds, so that will hopefully give me a little respite.

Lea .x