Lazy Saturday

No orchestra for Jonah on Saturday, so we all had a nice lazy day:

Although Cara does look a little worried about it. Don't worry , Cara.

Foraging again

We went on the hunt for sea spinach and rock samphire and found loads of each at Petit Port.

Meriel pickled the samphire and made the spinach into filo parcels with feta cheese - yum.

Here's the parcels:

And here's the samphire prior to pickling:

Now we've just got to wait 4 months before eating it. How long!?

Finally Meriel and Jonah went on the hunt for Alexanders, which were peeled and steamed. Nice:

Meriel's Birthday

Meriel's 39.

So we made her some cakes:

Perhaps we got a little carried away, but hey.

She got some PMC (precious metal clay) stuff for making jewelry along with some really nice books.

Oh, and we went to Petit Port for lunch - beautiful weather. We just had a packed lunch and watched the tide coming in. Here's the spot:

Happy Birthday, Meriel

Ben's Christening

We went to Ben's Christening last Sunday and, without being able to find anything in a shop which would convey a deep enough feeling of love and money, we all went home and made the nearest thing to it ...

... fairy cakes!

We each made one and put them in this really snazzy box we found in town.

Now, surely that was better than shop-bought tat, wasn't it?

And it was fun.

London after the holiday

We stayed with Meriel folks for a few days after we returned from the ski trip. No guessing which restaurant we went to when we hit Soho:

Skiing! Eeeeek!

So we went on this skiing holiday and knock me down if it wasn't completely perfect.

We went to La Plagne in the Alps and got good snow every day. Neither Meriel or myself are wildly experienced, but it was far and away the best conditions we'd ever seen.

The kids had a lovely time, going to ski school in the morning and bum-boarding and eating cake in the afternoon - what's not to like?

I was waiting to stitch together some images from the holiday which is why this post is so late, but I just haven't got round to it, so here's some of the other images from the trip:

Here's Chalet Ingrid, where George, our fantastic chalet host, lookaed after us with sublime food and daily cakes (yum):

I'll post some videos and some other images when I get round to uploading them.