A Busy Weekend

I say weekend, we all crashed and burned today, so it was really just a busy Friday/Saturday! We clearly aren't used to socialising anymore! 

So Friday was a long overdue promise to my eldest neice (16) to do some baking lessons. She's doing cake baking and decorating next year in school (why was I never offered a subject like that?) and wanted to build up her confidence on baking before starting the subject in a few weeks. 

I decided to keep it simple and went with chocolate covered cupcakes and empire biscuits:

I think we did pretty well! (and yes, they do taste as good as they look!) 

Afterwards we made vegetable soup and then we dropped her off. A quick 2 second hello turned into a few hour catch up and it was far too late when we got home to bed! 

Saturday I met up with friends for lunch and a dog walk and, despite our order being thoroughly messed up, we had a lovely time whilst Missy enjoyed the sun and slept. 

Then we saw different friends for a low key flat warming, even though they've been in the property almost 18 months now! 

Another very late night. 

This was Missy this morning after her walk:

Hubby and I felt this was a brilliant idea and decided to just have a quiet day and get some small jobs sorted around the house. 

Just a short post again, except to say that next week is National Dog Friendly day, I'm going to have to get my thinking cap on and organise something fun with Missy to celebrate the day! 

Now the main question is do we try somewhere new, or do I support somewhere we already love?