Friday Round Up

a branch I walked into - jessie enjoys a run on the stubble - wilson is busy with a stick

rosie's one pan supper - delicious starbucks full leaf tea - hot water bottle = best friend

my slow cooker (Winter saviour) - yummy sweetcorn - 'put a log on the fire mrs maguire'

I haven't blogged as much as I would have liked to this week, it's been a busy one all round. Matt has put in an offer on another business property and we had to sit down and strategically plan the next 5 years to see if we could afford to do it. This involved having the scariest conversation of our relationship so far - deciding when we want to (ideally) have a baby and how much money we will need to survive comfortably when we don't have my wage anymore. We've talked about children a lot before, for various reasons, but actually drawing a line in the sand and planning it is a very different thing. It feels like something grown ups do!  

It's been a chilly old week and we've been eating some winter warmers from my trusty slow cooker (beef and Guinness stew last night - yum) as well as Rosie's one pan wonder. Try it, you won't regret it! We also had our traditional sweetcorn supper tonight. Every year at around this time the farm up the road sells their home grown sweetcorn and it's absolutely amazing. When Matt walked in with a bag of 25 cobs tonight I couldn't wait to get my teeth into some, I've been waiting for that sign to go up at the end of the drive for the last six weeks! The corn is absolutely amazing - I didn't even think I liked sweetcorn until I tried it - I still can't eat the tinned stuff. Boiled for 3 minutes and soaked in butter and salt, these are heaven in cob form.

We've had the heating on a few times and a fire most nights, there have been a few rainy days and I've been wearing my snuggly Joules snood around the house. It really feels like we are into Autumn proper now and that makes me very happy indeed. My lovely best friend has booked our traditional October spa day and I have booked our Christmas trip to Chester, as well as looking at places to take Matt for his birthday treat in November. I think I've found the perfect place, I hope he likes it as much as I think I will!

This weekend holds a trip into town to see my family, visiting our friends who welcomed their new baby into the world last week, more work on the new house and perhaps a slow cooked bolognese. A roast and Downton Abbey on Sunday night and the first #lbloggers chat on Twitter at 7pm - don't forget to join us!

What do you have planned for the weekend? Are you enjoying the colder weather?