A day in Kew Gardens

On (Bank Holiday-) Monday we spent the day in Kew Gardens.
It felt like being on holiday.
We took plenty of photos and had amazing food.
I would love to move in to the Palm House a 1862 built glasshouse with victorian metal works, that contains a tropical jungle-
Mhmmm so nice and warm and humid in there.
The whole park was full off inspiring forms and structures.
So many fascinating plants, that we have never seen before.

Dave is back! Pancakes in bed thanks to jetlag

Skype, text and phone is just not enough...
I had 2 wonderful weeks (except the riot action) but I am so very happy that Dave is back!
Wednesday morning I got up before 5 o'clock to pick David up at the airport.
We stayed there for about 2 hours having coffee and breakfast and just catching up-
there was so much to tell.

Thanks to the time difference he is top fit early in the morning and saves me breakfast in bed every day.
Mhmmm these apple pancakes and rice puddings, and porridge.

( I've been cooking dinner, when he could hardly keep his eyes open after work)

Jetlag can be a good thing. Smoooch!

Liv is home alone + riots in London : Dave is down under as best man

It's been a crazy week.
Monday night when Dave left for Australia to attend his brothers wedding, the awful riots in London took off.
Not only wasn't I able to join him because I couldn't get time off work now also this.
Being home alone while our city and neighborhood got smashed and set on fire.
I didn't sleep Monday night, I was too scared and anxious and kept up watching the news.
I couldn't believe what I saw.
Next day everyone got sent home early from work, all shops and businesses were closed and locked up with wood in front of their windows.
Like a ghost town.
That night I just wished I would have been on the plane with Dave, who also couldn't enjoy his flight being too worried. Our house is still standing up and I didn't got directly effected.
But it was a scary experience.
I felt I just wanted to leave this place-
reviewing what happened I have to say it was actually great to see how people stuck together to clean the city up and how supportive everyone was towards the people who lost there homes and businesses.
You could feel that there are so much more positive productive people than negative destroying ones.
By now everything is pretty much back to normal, only that the city is still full off police.

I miss you David!!!
It's still 9 way too long days to go.
But the 1st crazy week is over. I am thankful for that.

A weekend full of fresh homegrown food, fresh air and wind turbines.

Family visit! A long weekend in northern Germany! Meeting my parents!
A weekend full of fresh homegrown food, fresh air and wind turbines.
Beside freezing 16 degrees and my severe cold that I just got in time for our trip, we had a great time.I was busy translating because Dave doesn't speak German and my Mama's English isn't that fluent either.
They both did extremely well and it made me very happy to see that everyone was getting along.
And I finally saw my little dog Leni again, who stayed with my Mum when I moved to London.
I miss her so much and it was good to her that happy, she is loving the countryside.
Even though the weather wasn't summery I showed Dave around and drove him out to my favorite beach and got him to taste some traditional dishes.
In no time the weekend was over and packed with strawberry jam from Mamas garden we went back to London where it was surprisingly hot and sunny, so that we had dinner on our local rooftop bar.
It's good to be back!

Another Chap Olympiad!

I can't believe it's already July and the last Chap Olympiad was a year ago.
Although the weather has been horrible and we have been hiding underneath an umbrella for several hours, trying to save our food and picnic blankets from the pouring rain, after six o'clock the sun came out and we eventually had a blast. It was such a fun day, also had the pleasure to do my friends vintage hair- and make up.