Three stages of my week: – I need a haircut – I get a haircut – I get extra dark blue colour and coffee! Thank you @crystaljanescissorhands I love my new cut and colour. #bluehair #coffee #sf #octobertime (at Saint Frank Coffee Roastery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Bq7ldJ7kC/?igshid=76g8rvni4dd6
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Quick catch up of two weeks ago and our boat architecture tour in Chicago. It was cold, misty and drizzly but a super interesting and fun. #chicago #latergram #architectureboattour #brrr🥶 (at Chicago Downtown) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3h_MJwJB5m/?igshid=v9bwgp16j6ag
Friday is #Chicago it rained! 🌧 a lot. So we started @eggyschi for breakfast ( green eggs and ham ftw). Then we went to @artinstitutechi and spent a pleasant few hours looking around. Something Charlotte and I don’t often do – art museums together. That night was #greektownchicago for dinner, a stop for an amazing…
First night in Chicago, we started at the Palmer House lobby bar, met up with Todd had some tasty cocktails, then on to Miller’s Bar for food and more cocktails. Then on on to “2 two 2”, for more cocktails. Back to Palmer House for a last glass of wine 🍷 and then sleep. #chicago…
My travel essentials! #zojirushi water bottle, #allsaints bag and my #tumi carry on. Inside bags, are notebooks, and my leather jacket. I seem to travel in the same clothes too: boots (worn out ) #fryes, black jeans and long sleeve top. Pretty standard and easy. (at San Francisco International Airport (SFO)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B24YXkrJDOG/?igshid=d43bj7jgjek8
Last night was a wonderful event thanks too @hangar1distillery, @infatuation_sf and @lordstanley_sf. I bought a ticket to a vodka and dinner experience and that it was. The cocktails were not something I would normally drink – too sweet – but the food and venue were superb. A bus took all the participants too and from…
Last night Jessica and I finally saw the rescheduled Massive Attack show here in #sf. We took our time, dressed up got there early ( too early perhaps) and got right up front. It was a fantastic show. Lots of covers – Velvet Underground, The Cure, Bauhaus – and with Elizabeth Frazier, Tricky and Horace…
The 31st August was two years since my mom died. This year felt rawer than last year. I suppose as you get further away, the knowledge about what you miss grows. I miss my mom, more than I can say. I did a yoga style class at gym and had two mimosas, as I knew…
My weekend in pictures! Delicious strawberry pancakes ( family style serving) Chicken and pork sausage with soft scrambled eggs All eaten at #earlytorise Grace Cathedral Wonderful verbena and coconut donut from @mrholmesbakehouse Dragon above a car workshop And Misfits posters @officialmisfits (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1XabTfJ8BH/?igshid=1rvjdkyloxyi1
Last night the sky soften and the moon rose. Such a lovely view outside my window. Waiting for full moon tmr night. #moon #ilikethemoon #augustmoon #sf (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1K2DEZpUYP/?igshid=4q52k330v909
Tonight I made this delicious 🤤 banana snacking cake with a caramel glaze. My apartment smells wonderful but I need to buy some minor baking pieces: measuring spoons, a softer and a whisk. And a butter melted for the stove top. Mainly as the caramel has lumps of confectioners sugar in it that I could…
Time for a change! Thank you @crystaljanescissorhands for getting me to a new colour! #bluehair #sunnyday #sf (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_bwzCJDtb/?igshid=pinmxlzedtqr
My weekend in brief bursts! Spent with the lovely @niconography First up is the amazing uni pasta dish I ate @iyasareberkeley Next is the walk back to #bart: – perfect flower – the skyline with a sliver of the moon 🌙 – then a lonely phone at #bart platform The next day started with coffee…
Guess who made cookies finally! Yep me, I had to take them to work in case I ate them all, but I followed the recipe exactly, and although I read horror stories about them crumbling and falling apart they came out perfectly. #salted butter chocolate chunk shortbread” #alisonromancookies #saltedbutterchocolatechunkshortbread #cookieof2017 #success #nopicturesofbakedcookies (at San Francisco,…
This last weekend on walk around lake! Such lovely wildlife and plants. Saw ripening blackberries ( are some too) and lichen and so many dragonflies #weekend #bullardsbar #walk #flowers (at Bullards Bar Reservoir) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz__NEcpvVa/?igshid=e4hbhi3y60po