Remember to Remember: Summer 2014

I love this photo taken of an overgrown van in a garden in Latvia

This Summer seemed to pass by quickly. I had quite a full diary and there were fewer chances than I'd hoped to just sit in the yard-en and admire the plant pots and beautiful honeysuckle, which flowered for the first time this year, four years after it was first potted.

Diary scribbles: Summer 2014

• A trip to London with my mum: Miss Saigon and afternoon tea at Claridges
• Crafting
• Dinners and sharing holiday photos with friends
• Betting on black at a casino to celebrate a good friend's 30th birthday
• A three week adventure travelling around Bali and Gili Trawangan
• Mid week wine dates with friends
• A weekend of board games, cycling, spa fun, barbecues, crazy golf, boules and hot chocolates with friends at Centre Parcs, Sherwood Forest
• Watching the rain fall, cosy with a mug of hot chocolate
• A family spa visit to Ribby Hall for my mum's birthday
• A week visiting M's family and exploring Latvia: beaver watching, saunas, castles, beaches, elderflower beer, turning trees
• Treating myself to Clarins Beauty Flash
• Investing in our own copy of Settlers of Catan
• Long sunny walks
• Baking homemade peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies
• Impromptu pub dinners
• Stripping (wallpaper) and prepping to redecorate our second bedroom/office
• Little spending sprees, including my new favourite Autumn coat
• Total relaxation on an overnight stay at the Quay Hotel and Spa and a day exploring Conwy
• Graduation celebrations in honour of my little brother's PGCE
• Lunch dates and Frappuccinos
• Liverpool's Summer Art Market Craft market
• A day as tourists in our own city
• A beautiful Brighton wedding
• Garden centres, making the yarden look pretty and wishing I had a garden of my own
• Overeating at Liverpool's Food and Drink Festival
• Chasing giants around Liverpool for Giant Spectacular's Memories of August 1914
• Celebrating a leather anniversary and falling in love with my beautiful new leather satchel
• A long overdue hair cut and pamper
• Impromptu half price Indian head massages
• Becoming an ebay whizz

It's already October and I'm only just publishing this post! This is mainly because of the ongoing redecorating project in our office which has meant that the computer has been in bits, and stored in the bedroom, living room, even the bathroom over the past month! I'm finally sat at my desk in my home office, sliding the chair across the new flooring. Still staring at a bare plaster wall, though. As I said, it's ongoing!