EASTER IN 2014: Sunday

 This year's Easter was a busy one and this is Easter Sunday- excuse me hopping about- after the mass at St Jo's. I cried throughout as it strongly reminded me of the Thessalionians passage I'd read at mum's funeral but did smile when Father Mark said he still enjoys throwing the Holy Water about in church and how the fun has not lessened in the 26 years that he's been doing it!
So when I got home I need to be silly. hence the bunny ears. JJ worked and the girls were still asleep so I'd gone by myself but glad I went.

 As they were still asleep the eggs were un- assaulted !

 Easter decs were up...

I started on my chocco bunny and its ears were solid!

 And posh- nay very posh if not positively aristocratic- macaroons had arrived at the table?

 The girls had been in London with JJ for the day to do some art homework for Miss E and shopping, no doubt. I'd been to Hampshire to clear up and collect a few things and say a few more goodbyes.

 The bag the macaroons came in was nice too!

 And the box was designed by an architect???!

Fabulous flavours, cocolate, rum and raisin, lemon- and a really sharp& true lemon taste it was too!- 

burnt caramel, olive,rose, and mixtures too where top layer and bottom layer differ and all the centre creams were just so DIVINELY SUBLIME!

Once up, Miss E soon started on her egg.

 And I had blissful moments of Regency passions and a rose macaroon:

 The stocks may be looking elderly but the scent still beautifully pervades the room.

 And one of my ''early'' birthday presents was given, seen at Waterstones a week ago?

 Lovely lacy motifs with great diagrams.

 I especially liked this Winterburn hexagon and had a little try-out:

 3.5 mm hook and Yeoman's Cannele, it came out very large indeed, larger than I had expected.
I had a lacy summery bolero in mind and am having a re-think now.

Kid's Treat day out in London 12th April

 From playing with an african flower crochet motif while waiting for everyone to get and be ready to go:

 We went for an afternoon and evening's entertainment to London as a family. No holiday trip this Easter un like Dorset last year or Delft the year before as Miss E has revising to do for those imminent GCSEs...

 Admired these flowers in town when I walked the dogs just before going.

 The girls each had one destination they could choose: Miss Y chose Waterstones at GOWER st.

 What a building!!! Excellent choice: lovely building inside and out! Perfick for a bookworm such as she is but perfick for us too, we all had a lovely time browsing our favourite sections:
Miss Y: teen adventure/ teen genre, Miss E: baking and cooking as well as stationery, moi? CROCHET of course and JJ: coffee and newspapers to read.

 TWO shelves of crochet books! But I had seen most of them before, only one or two new ones.

Browsed happily and then sat crocheting in the cafe having tea while JJ read.

 Isn't this Liberty quilt divine? Blue and white my favourite and such a fun ''ripple''!
Actually very simply executed with squares split into two strips, one blue one white fabric...
Then it was off to WHOLE FOODS off Regent St for Miss E wo thought it her paradise and ran in totally delighted. We sat outside on ''tree'' chairs and had lunch.

 Mesmerising macaroons...

Then after this the tube to North Greenwich, loved the geometrics on this building and the round porthole windows. Quite ESHER-ESQUE?!

 Bunnies mural made me think of Easter...

 oh and a vixen and her family?

 DOGS! Including a dachshund!

 With the London skyline...Shard, St Paul's, gherkin.

 The millenium dome now known as the O2 site!

 1940'S COLOURS, VINTAGE geometrics, lovely...

 We went to see MIRANDA LIVE!!!!! JJ booked it for us many months ago for the family .

 The experience was amazing although some of the jokes were all recycled from the shows so that was rather ho-hum, surely she could be a bit more original and inventive?
And so small! We sat up very high, good job we weren't near an edge. JJ had been before for tennis apparently. I was disgusted by the way we had to remove bottle tops even of water bottles and our expensive special fresh juice treats from wholefoods which happened to be in a glass bottle were BINNED, yes simply THROWN out without a by -your-leave- when we went in?
We were very early so had we know we could have drunk them outside?!! I think people should be warned about this, I was really disgusted by the loutish behaviour of those entrance guards!!

 On the way out the queues for the tube were gigantic so I persuaded JJ that we take the ferry back to Embankment, walk to Charing Cross and take the tube back to the car at Shepherd's Bush.

 This is us walking down to the ferry, I remebered it from when I did it this way for the fan museum at Greenwich, remember?! It was just as delightful, quiet and comfortable! Much shorter queue too.

Bye bye St Pauls, bye bye London.