Hello and welcome to my post covering my unblogged events from the winter this year; it's a little bit late in being published as the past couple of weeks have been busy, and then I was in Wales at the end of March. Winter was busy this year, and I had a lot of different things to cover from holidays to birthday days out with friends. I also caught the illness that everyone else seemed to have in early March, and it took most of a month to finally recover from it fully.) Winter seems like a long way away now with the nice weather we have had (at the time when I wrote this post, but now it seems cold and wet again).
First up is Chinese New Year, and one of the events that I did not write about previously was getting a Chinese takeaway on the day and enjoying a Xi Home Dumplings dumpling shaped like a dragon. It was vegetarian, and they do different shapes for different seasons. It was very good.
I also received some pastries inspired by Chinese New Year at a work bake sale.
Next up, I had a few trips to Sloane Square's Saturday market. On one visit, I bought some delicious choocolates.
I also brought back Dubai chocolate from Vienna when I visited at the end of February.
The blossoms started to make their appearance, which was welcomed as the winter has been particularly cold and miserable.
I had several days of just relaxing at home with the Maine Coons, Merlin and Sir Lancelot.
Humble Crumble has been one favourite of mine since I discovered them at Canary Wharf before they were popular, and they brought back their creme brulee crumble topping for January, which I tried.
Next up is Valentine's Day, and I received an afternoon tea box with scones and rose Prosecco, chocolate, and fudge. It came with candles and rose petals too.
My friend and I went to enjoy breakfast at The Ivy, and we went to the branch in Kennsington High Street. She wanted to do something different each month this year of items on her "bucket list", and visiting the Ivy was on the list. I had not been there for breakfast myself.
I also enjoyed a Saturday lunch with a lot of two-for-one cocktails at Ego at Pomeroy, which is based in Little Chalfont near Amersham. The meal included a starter of corn fritters, and I got the chicken as a main and a dessert with small portions of their popular desserts - crumble, creme brulee, lemon tart, Eton mess, and brownie.
Toward the end of winter, Holi was celebrated. I invited friends over for dinner (they won't eat Indian food as they do not like the spice, so I made pasta as we were planning to have a pasty dinner party anyway), and we threw coloured powder at each other.
The beautiful spring flowers started to become available in shops toward the end of winter, and I had to buy some to enjoy the colour.
Goodbye to winter, and hello to the much-awaited spring and hopefully nice weather ahead. I hope this year has a proper spring and summer and is not a wash out.
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