Jelte BBQing

We're at Jelte and Linda for an Easter BBQ. We are very lucky with the weather. The sun is actually shining after four days of rain.



However, Jelte's BBQ technique might just need to be a tiny bit improved... Or is it just down to the raw material... 85% vs 96% beef burgers...

Little horses

On Sunday L and I continued our healthy weekend with a walk to Eashing. Didn't find to much on the way capturing our photographic senses so we ended up mostly chatting and enjoying being out in the fresh air. As always you get hungry after a while so a lunch stop at the Stag was called for.

When we asked for the menu we were told that the waiting time would be 1 1/2 hour. No time to lose, we quickly got our orders in and the waiting time had miracules dropped to 1h 10 min. We called R&I to tell them it was time to finish painting their banisters and come and join us instead.

To our surprise after having waited for 25 minutes our food arrived. It was all very jummy so we were all very happy. Just as we were about to finish R&I showed up. A quick drink and we were off again.



As always when you are out and about the countryside you have to walk through some animal fields. This time we walked through a horse field. Three little horses were waiting for us close to the exit stile. All very curiuos and determined not to let us out until we had said hello. We were all racing to reach the stile first. We won but not until the horses managed to get a sneak cuddle first.




Safely on the other side we felt more at home to give them more cuddles. And it proved a good time for some close-up shots of pretty horses.

Gigantic cake

Today L and I have been out wandering the Surrey paths. It was blue sky, warm and generally very pleasant so a nice walk with the cameras sounded like a brilliant idea.

We headed out around one o'clock (hey it is Saturday and you don't have to get up early then). The target was to get to Watts tea house.

So we happily wandered along. Took lots of photos. Met some scary looking, but very sweet, highland cows. Took a couple of wrong turns and finally found the tea house.

Lyckily it was open, at this time we were getting rather hungry. Being a tea house we obviously had to get a cream tea (tea, scones, cream and jam) and a chocolate cake. The cake arrived immediately and both L and I got a big shock.


The size of the cake; it was enormous! It was enough to feed a whole family. It was in fact a quarter of the whole cake. And we got one piece each.

Every customer who came in commented on our cakes' size. Even the other waitresses did too. We became the big talking point.

After getting over the initial shock we started to photograph them. We needed proof. No one would believe us otherwise.

We had our cream tea and a little bit of the cake. But in the end we had to admit defeat. We just couldn't take it anymore. We both had a massive sugar rush and walked back home in high speed. Both craving for some salt to neutralise our taste buds.

I think we need to go for another walk tomorrow to get rid of all the calories and sugar.

G20 musings

So it has been an interesting day. Media has been trying to hype up the protests. Security has been extensive in CW. Walking through the shopping mall it felt like a weekend. The sun was shining and most people had dressed down. And all in all I've only seen one tired protestor catching a train home.

However it's been amusing to watch the dressed down "bankers". The train to work wasn't its usual black suits rubbing shoulders experience. Again a slightly weekend feel with a bit less people on the train. I can't complain.



Anyway it remains to be seen if the 5000 protestors will descend upon CW tomorrow or not. Here's a photo of what it looked like today, no suits in sight...

Apparently it was 10 years ago Symbian set up the Ronneby office so the Swedish ex-pats met up after work for a drink at our trusted Stage door. A nice evening with plenty of catching up on gossip.

Afternoon in Exeter

On the road back from Exeter. I'm stuck in the back seat as Rob has stolen my front seat. Don't really mind to be honest. Means I can sit here in the back playing with my iPhone.


We have all been to a family get-together in Exeter. Ian, Rob, Ruth, Piers and I all piled in to the cars this morning to meet up with Jane, James and the extended Hutton family for lunch. Ian's uncle Neil and aunt Rowe was there. It was good to see them again. Haven't seen them since Jane and James's wedding. Ian's cousins were also there with their kids. It was very nice to finally meet them.

Rowe, who organised the event, had picked a very nice restaurant for us to meet. Luckily we had a whole room to ourselves. Specially since it were 19 of us. After a few hours of splendid company and good food it was time for us to head home. We now have a four hour drive to get back home (and my battery is nearly dead!).

Exeter seems like a really nice place, the little I saw of it. I definately like to explore it some more. Perhaps next time. In the meantime, here are some photos I took.

Queen of the desert

On my way back home after a fab time at the theatre. Via my wonderful colleague I had managed to bag four tickets to see Priscilla the queen of the desert. I convinced hubby, R&I to tag along. And yes, I did not mentioned at the time that Jason Donovan was starring nor that it was a musical. In the weeks leading up to tonight the boys were giving me lots of grief and tried to get out of the whole deal. But no luck there.

Luckily the show was brilliant. A real feel good show with lots of laughter. Everybody enjoyed it and their faith in me is restored! I think I'm allowed to make more theatre bookings :-)

It's all happening

Oops, it's been some time since my last blog. Sorry about that. A few things have happened since last. First of all, my project has been completed and is now adorning our kitchen window. The chillies look really amazing when they catch the sun. They almost become translucent and you can see the seeds inside. Obviously I had to photograph it.

Secondly, the spring has arrived! For two weeks now the weather has been lovely. Sunny, warm and generally pleasant. This means that our garden has come alive. It's all very exciting to see which plants will come up etc. Specially since this is our first spring/summer in the house.

I've been particulary keen to see how the bulbs I planted will do. And yes! a few weeks ago I saw the first purple crocuses appearing :-) Unfortunately the wind/frost got some of them pretty quickly, but not before I got a chance to photograph them.

Next in line where the daffodils. They been cheering us up for the past two weeks and are still going. The tulips is in the process of coming up and soon the flower bed will have some purple in it again.

The weekend saw a proper spring clean of the garden. Ian had fun laying grass turf and plant a hanging basket whilst I was tearing down the naugthy climbing plant (not ivy but it behaves like it) and ensuring all the weed and snails are non-existent. All very satisfying work. The garden looks so much nicer now.

That's it for me, soon time to get off the train. More photos of the garden will follow as it progresss...