My ex-boyfriend has returned back on the radar, with a new job (I surmise), a new mobile number (or just one I am no longer familiar with), and a whole new name (!!). He manifested himself in two text messages. I replied to the first, thought for a couple of days over the second and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘birthday’
thoughts while walking to the train
Posted in slightly deeper thoughts, tagged birthday, family life, lion, mela v. world, Peanut, relationships, Russia, work on 15 February, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
year end happenings
Posted in encounters, tagged birthday, Christmas, family life, lion, Peanut, relationships, work on 23 December, 2011 | 1 Comment »
1. Peanut turns 3 years old. After waiting all year and returning home with birthday goodie bags from school every other week and partaking in everyone else’s birthday festivities, Peanut finally gets to blow the candles of her own birthday cake! 2. Moving out The Parents have more or less moved out of our family [...]
a movie, three cakes, forgotten work
Posted in encounters, food, tagged bakes, birthday, family life, food, lion, Peanut, performances, work on 8 November, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Court decided to give me a break last Thursday, which allowed me to take Friday off to make it a super long weekend. So on Friday, we dropped Peanut off at school, then took Lion for his MMR jab at the paede’s. After, we dropped Lion off at my parents and went to the [...]
meetings and drinks
Posted in conversations, encounters, random thoughts, tagged birthday, mela v. world, relationships, work on 10 October, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As part of my birthday celebrations, Jeffrey and I arranged to meet for one quick drink last Tuesday at about 6pm, before we return to our respective lives in about 0.5 to 1 hour thereafter. I only managed to get out of my office by 5:45pm, ran madly across the river and got to the [...]
an egg stained red, a slice of cake
Posted in encounters, food, tagged bakes, birthday, family life, food, lion, motherhood, Peanut, relationships, work on 5 October, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Happy Birthday to me
salt caramel
Posted in encounters, food, tagged birthday, food, motherhood, Peanut on 25 July, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I made these lovely soft caramel candies yesterday afternoon as follows: In a saucepan, heat 180ml of cream with 1/2 teaspoonful of vanilla essence, 1/2 rounded teaspoonful of fine sea salt and 30g of butter until it begins to boil. Remove from neat and keep warm. Heat 1/2 cup of corn syrup (or golden syrup) [...]
lion turns one!
Posted in encounters, fillers, food, tagged bakes, birthday, family life, lion, motherhood on 2 June, 2011 | 1 Comment »
happy birthday to daddy
Posted in food, random thoughts, tagged bakes, birthday, family life, lion, motherhood, Peanut on 19 April, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I meant to make this entry some time last month but time just slips away from me these days. I made this cake for The Other Half’s birthday this year: Toast 3/4 cup of coconut for about 5 minutes and leave it to cool. Cream 90g of butter and 1/2 cup of sugar until light [...]
a lifetime away
Posted in encounters, random thoughts, tagged birthday, family life, food, lion, motherhood, Peanut, relationships on 13 March, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I put away the large pot that we use to sterilize the infant milk bottles this weekend while I was making bolognese sauce for lunch on Saturday. I have stopped breastfeeding two weeks back and we no longer needed to sterilize the breast pump at the end of every work day. While scrubbing the pot [...]
the day I turned 30
Posted in encounters, tagged birthday, family life, lion, mela v. world, motherhood, Peanut, relationships, work on 5 October, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I put on a pair of new tights and wore my wedding jewellery. I carried my sleeping daughter on my lap all the way from our home to my parents’. I gingerly peeled back the shell of an egg, stained red, sprinkled salt and pepper on its just done yolk, and ate it with slices [...]
