Saturday 27 January 2018

Photo diary: week 4 (project 365)

On Sunday morning I was still in bed, when super excited Eddie ran into my bedroom: "Mummy, snow! snow!" Ever an optimist, he was hoping for more snow and no school the next day. Alas, the snow melted by late afternoon, being all wiped off clean like a slate by an incessant drizzle.


On Monday I was returning home from the school run, and realised that our street was almost void of all traffic or parked cars, which basically never happens. It makes you think just how it must have looked like centuries ago (minus antennae and asphalt). Most of the houses in our street are 200-300 years old.


Our garden is starting to awaken a little bit, and I can see snowdrops poking their spiky green tops everywhere. I also spotted a few primroses and even a couple of crocuses.


The river Windrush has been put on a flood alert last week. A few days ago it even spilled out of its banks in the flood fields. On Wednesday it was raining almost non-stop. I snapped the river on the run home from school. These are raindrops on the camera.


The next day it felt very much like spring in the air, fresh and clean.


Friday is Eddie's favourite day of the week, as it's the beginning of a weekend, and also he has his best friend over after school, and the guys talk Minecraft and other important business. They asked me to buy a Cheese feast pizza for them, to which I added some ham, and they demolished it quickly. For dessert, they had a mango sorbet (Eddie's favourite ice cream).


After a quick grocery shopping and a visit to Gregg's for Eddie's weekly treat of a sausage roll, we came home, and I baked a chocolate polenta cake. The smell of chocolate was drawing people in the kitchen like a magnet, Sasha couldn't wait until the cake was ready. He kept poking into the kitchen, and I kept telling him to wait a bit. He was the first one to get a big slice of cake, when the cake was still warm.

best chocolate cake


23 comments:

  1. That cake does look good. I do love the town you live in, it must be very rare to have no cars in the road! It's been a weird week weatherwise hasn't it, I hope the Windrush behaves itself #365

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    1. Thank you, Mary! I hope the Windrush behaves as well, we don't want the repeat of the big floods from several years ago.

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  2. Love the photo of the houses in your street. The chocolate cake looks delicious!

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    1. Thank you, Sarah! Our street has an interesting history. I'd love to see all houses inside.

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  3. Ooh I love polenta cake although usually do a lemon one. What a lovely row of houses too - so strange when you see an empty road nowadays

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    1. My family likes my orange polenta cake. A lemon version sounds lovely too.

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  4. Ahh! My girls were hoping that their school would be closed on Monday too....It didn't happen. Eek! They had fun in the snow on Sunday though.
    Fab photos! That cake looks so good x

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    1. Thank you, Kim! A bit of snow would be lovely.

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  5. Oooh polenta cake ... now there's an idea :)

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    1. I will try to post the recipe later today. :)

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  6. What a gorgeous area you live in!hehe I would be waiting for the cake too! #365

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    1. Thank you, Fee! The cake was good, we all enjoyed it.

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  7. your houses will still be standing long after my now 70 yr old house is demolished.
    Shame he did not get much snow. Our river was very full as well with all the snow melt and rain last week.

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    1. Thank you, Elaine, I hope the houses keep standing for the other generations to enjoy them too.

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  8. sounds like a lovely week, sad i've missed the best of the weather, ie the snow and when i return in a few weeks it'll just be drizzle, never mind, it'll be nice to have a change of scenery. The street you live on looks lovely

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    1. We didn't have much snow, nothing like up North, where they could build a proper snowman.

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  9. Love the photo of the houses in your street, what a lovely house. The chocolate cake looks so good xx #365

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    1. Thank you, Susan! The houses are all different in size and layout.

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  10. Lovely to have snow but yes not quite an avalanche! I've seen a few snowdrops about in the village too #365

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    1. Our garden is now carpeted with snowdrops. It took a few days, but now there's a whole sea of them.

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  11. Your street does look pretty without cars and traffic. Hope the River Windrush is behaving itself.

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    1. Thank you, Erica! I'd love for our street to be traffic-free all the time. The river behaved itself so far.

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  12. Ooh do you have a recipe on your blog for the cake? I'd love to try it! #project365

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