Friday Evening by the River

Posted on August 13, 2012 by nicdempsey

I love London, especially when it’s warm and sunny and friends ask you to join them for a drink by the river… it was so good to see T & C and catch up..

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday Music

Posted on August 12, 2012 by nicdempsey

Richard Hawley – Down into the Woods

Years ago, Fran told me about hear a Rolling Stones song on the radio. She knew it was the Rolling Stones she knew that she hadn’t heard it before.  I thought about that a couple of weeks ago I heard this song on Radio 6Music (Jon Holmes on a Saturday morning was a genius move!) and I knew it Richard Hawley and I really liked it…

Then I bought Standing at the Sky’s Edge and have been listening to it on the way to work this week and I love it (Ma is going to have it inflicted on her when we go to Yorkshire) but his song is the one that makes me walk quicker to the station in the morning..

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Friday Night Cocktail

Posted on August 10, 2012 by nicdempsey

The Nicola 6

Cause it was my birthday on 6th August and I’m called Nicola.

Also it has pimms and cucumber in it and one day I’m going to make it with gin to see what it tastes like.

 

I saw it here, and it’s a great drink but a bit of a faff to make. (I used normal coloured instead of pink fizz,  because I am my  mother’s daughter and pink fizz is an abomination as far as she is concerned!)

Happy Friday

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What I did last night

Posted on August 9, 2012 by nicdempsey

I went to Sarah’s and drank fizz and ate fish and chips..

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Instead of doing anything useful at home. It was lovely to see her and catch up on all the news, gossip and general excitement.

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A birthday in pictures…

Posted on August 7, 2012 by nicdempsey

 

Oli, later on we made cakes (he’s good at cracking eggs and eating choc chips!)

 

Tabitha

 

Murphy

 

Saturday was the child friendly celebration, there aren’t any pictures of Friday night, but it was lovely and left me with no gin in the house!

 

Ingredients..for Friday Night cocktails..

 

 

 

 

Tabitha drawing a dog “with two eyes, two eyebrows and a tail”

Monday morning breakfast

 

Another year older and ready for cocktails at the American Bar!

 

Martinis

The Road to Victory (No 3 gin, Kamm & Sons, grapefruit juice, sugar)

 

Perfect Manhattan

 

Champagne birthday thing (champange, creme de cassis, bitters)

 

Time for a walk

 

 

 

 

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Birthday….

Posted on August 6, 2012 by nicdempsey

It’s my birthday today. Also celebrating birthdays today are The American Bar at the Savoy, (105 years older than me!), the World Wide Web (go google Tim Berners-Lee!), Tennyson, and Jamaica which celebrates 50 years of independence.

So I’m in pretty good birthday company…

I’ve had such a good weekend filled with friends, family and quite a bit of cake…

I used to have a phrase when things were going wrong, “This is not supposed to be my life”.

This weekend, even though this is not the life I expected or in lots of ways I wanted to have. I’m glad it’s mine and I’m glad these people that I spent time with over the weekend are in it!20120805-181545.jpg

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Sunday Music

Posted on August 5, 2012 by nicdempsey

Etta James. Because I heard it on the radio this morning and I remembered how much I like it.

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July Foodie Penpals

Posted on July 31, 2012 by nicdempsey

This month my parcel came from Anna Keenan and Robert van Waarden.

In it was: goats cheese, tempeh and a spice mix to go with it, stroopwafels and last but not least a bar of dark chocolate.

Anna had read the blog and thought about my parcel in light of my goals to loose weight and eat more mindfully as well as the addition of the 2 vegetarian days a week. So there were two recipes, one for cooking the tempeh and one for vegan chocolate mousse.

Could we also stop a moment to admire the packing on the chocolate?

Isn’t that beautiful. (it’s as lovely as the milk packaging I saw in Cote d’Ivoire)

I haven’t eaten yet but just wait! I’m really excited to try the tempeh as I’ve been far to reliant on cheese for my vegetarian days…

And I’ve already had a stroopwafel

 

The whole parcel is fab and was a great pick me up after the disaster in the kitchen I had on the day it arrived (all I’m saying is that things set on fire, I got a steam burn and breakfast was cancelled!)

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Sarah and Justin got married

Posted on July 30, 2012 by nicdempsey

On Friday, Sarah and Justin got married. They asked me to take the pictures. Sarah and I have known each other for well over 20 years (our families knew each other from St Thomas’)and her reasoning was that I know her and Justin well enough to know what they will tolerate (neither of them are very keen on having their photos taken) and they would listen to me when I asked them to something to get a good photo. I have a policy of always saying yes when people I love ask me to do something that matters, even when it makes me very nervous. So, I turned up with a camera and did my best.

    This I think is my favourite photo. Mother and Son. Ryan and Sarah got very lucky when God chose them for each other.

  Sarah, Tom and Elayne.  Tom and Elayne are Sarah’s people…

  Sisters..

  Sarah has spent a lot of time in India and the Ambassador cabs were very her…

 

Justin and his ‘best person’ Joy…

I do just need to spend some time talking about this young man. Ryan was amazing. He gave his mother away, signed the register, made a brilliant speech, kept his brothers under control. My mother says that he’s a ‘nice boy’ and that’s so true. His parents, step-parents and godparents are slightly gobsmacked that he turned out to be such an amazing person and I know that we’re all very proud…

I hadn’t realised how difficult it is to get a good photo of cake. Justin’s sister made these and his parents had a very anxious journey from Wales with them in the back of the car!

It was a brilliant day and suited Sarah and Justin perfectly.

Sarah and Ryan (and now Justin) are part of my family and I was so happy to be there and to know that everyone in the room were there to see and take part in a day that made a new family.

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Sunday Music

Posted on July 29, 2012 by nicdempsey

I spent Friday at Sarah and Justin’s wedding..

This is the song that stood out..

When I grow old, I know I’m gonna be the man that’s growing old with you

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