food & fashion challenge in SouthGate Bath.

To celebrate the new restaurants opening in Bath's shopping centre, SouthGate invited me to come and have a nosey, and challenged me to buy a new outfit & have a meal for two for £150.. this is my kind of challenge.

I took my pal Lily along, as we do enjoy a little girldate on a Friday, and we had a lovely time in our neighbouring town (which FYI is also where we first met - cute).

healthy chocolate sponge in under 10 minutes!

Sometimes you need a chocolate fix, and sometimes you need it in under 10 minutes, lest you hurt someone badly. 

Even though we used to often make a chocolate sponge in the microwave as kids as a quick pudding fix when nothing else was in on a Friday night (and my brother and I were probably whinging) I've been a little dubious of mug cakes in more recent years, thinking they'd turn out rubbery.

I was wrong.

acting grown up.

The closer I get to 30, the more I look at certain items of clothing and think, "I cannot wear that." - I find myself leaning more towards clean lines, less pattern, and comfort.

Eurgh, that makes me sounds like a right granny, and like I'm saying that you can't wear certain things when you reach 30 - and that's not what I mean at all. It's just the way I'm evolving, and there are many things I put on and feel like I'm a little girl, when really I want to feel my age.

the old bookshop boozy brunch.

A little while back, I headed down to my favourite local to try out their boozy brunch menu - chef Alex Bluett's delicious brekkies paired with Psychopomp cocktails.

But be quick if you want to indulge, as the Psychopomp pop up cocktail bar will be no more by the end of this month!