The Hummingbird Bakery
It has been a great weekend, really busy, but I have managed to pack so much in it has been really satisfying. On saturday we headed north to Crouch End to pay a visit to a restaurant that serves up the best American/Californian breakfasts this side of the Atlantic, called Pick More Daisies. The food was to die for, it was seriously worth the 1 hour trek. Crouch end also has some great shops, it really is an independent shop honey pot. The icing on the cake, quite literally came when Miles and I decided to head over to South Kensington to The Hummingbird Bakery for some Sunday afternoon tea and cupcakes. Well, diet coke and cupcakes.
The Hummingbird Bakery is one of my favorite places in London, it is so damn cute! The colour scheme is bubble gum pink and brown and it does shabby chic very well. It is much more than just aesthetically pleasing – the cakes are totally dreamy. The vanilla frosted cupcake is yum, very smooth and really fluffy sponge. I love all the cakes, I love the shop, I love the displays, basically I just love everything about it..
So if your in London Hummingbird is really worth a try, their sponge is hard to beat for fluffiness. Plus the guys and girls serving you get the best uniform. They get little pink sweat tops with Hummingbird written across it – super cute!We finished our afternoon off with a 3 mile stroll around Hyde Park, it is so beautiful. The sun was setting, and the Serpentine was shimmering a gorgeous slate blue hue. The ducks were out and the leaves were all off the trees it felt like the perfect warm up to Christmas. Ice skating at Somerset House soon, I can’t wait…. now that will be Christmassy.
I couldn’t Agree More
I saw these over at Keep Calm and I couldn’t resist sharing them. I am already in love with everything Keep Calm make and this print really tops it off. It sums my life up in one statement. I love tea and I find great comfort in drinking it. Not just any tea though, I drink green tea and Jasmine tea (by the bucket load). I have been drinking this type of tea for about 3 years now and it never fails to sort me out. I suffer with poor digestion and constant stomach aches and all I need is one soothing cup and I am good to go. The same soothing effects can ease a head ache, PMT and general stress. It has been working wonders on my awful cold that I have at the moment, well as much as a cup of tea can (she types one handed clutching a huge mug of hot tea). I am so British I take my tea away with me on holiday, and carry it around in my handbag (because other people’s tea just isn’t the same). I will be purchasing one of these lovelies just as soon as I get a pad of my own to hang it in (I hope they don’t sell out before that happens?)
Lazy Sunday
The weather is getting gloomy outside and the daylight is disappearing rapidly. I thought the perfect anecdote to the darkening evenings would be to throw so colour into the mix. After a long afternoon walk in the park spent kicking around the leaves with Holly we decided to go home and have tea and biscuits in style. Between us our assortment of Cath Kidston and Greengate is large enough to open a small shop, so we decides to get it all out and eat in style.
Ok, so we didn’t have any real cakes so we improvised with the knitted cupcakes my mum made us. They added to the effect. Cookies and strawberries had to make do, next time it will be cakes from The Hummingbird bakery or Crumbs and Doilies. I was lucky enough to spend last night in the very cute and comfortable Greenwich Picture house I saw the very moving and powerful Once by John Carney. A great film and a really lovely cinema. Lastly I wanted to say ‘thanks’ to little Lj over at littleljbigapple for her kind words about my blog. Lj is a friend of mine who writes a super cool blog about her adventures in New York (she has just moved there) – and she is rather entertaining!
