a lux picnic

I was due to go up to London to catch up with one of my favourite ladies over the weekend, but unfortunately couldn't make it, so she suprised me by coming to Bournemouth instead! We grabbed a pinic and wandered up to Henguistbury head in Christchurch...

Look how wonderful and sunny it was! We were also able to catch some of the planes from the Bournemouth airshow flying overhead, you can just about see one in the picture of the reeds.

We found a quiet little spot and laid out our pinic...

Generic blogger enjoying food photo

and I tried my hand at posing fashion blogger style.... I quickly remembered why I'm not a fashion blogger!

After a few hours of chatting everything from Australia to drunken nights out we headed, in true Aussie style, to the pub...

which just happens to have a wonderful beer garden right on the river, perfect! 

Make sure you check out Catherine's blog too:  Lux life

What've you been up to lately? xo 

20 days to go....

I cant believe that the last australia update was 80 days ago, when we still had 100 days to go....how time flies! It's now just under 3 weeks until we leave our UK lives behind and take the biggest move of our lives to Australia. Since the last update I've started a blog just about our move called from aus with love on which I'm going to put posts for friends and family to keep up to date, we also got postcards printed to hand out at our leaving parties and to colleagues at work. So much has happened since the last update away from setting up blogs, we've handed in our resignations at work (although they knew it was coming anyway), we've opened our bank accounts with HSBC Australia, we've done carboot sales (still more to do though!), met so many friends for drinks and dinners etc. etc. etc.

So the next 20 days...

• We have three leaving parties over the next three weeks all with different groups of people. 
• We still have a tonne of stuff to sell / take to charity / sort out. 
• We're moving to live with another part of the family, yay more moving!
• Going to Brighton to see Lauren & Athena and Laura
• Finishing working our notice at work
• Having last minute catch ups with Rosie when she's back from America and Lux the evening before we fly 

and all the finer little details...that aren't so fine...like moving our money and packing our suitcases!

Expect irratic blogging because right now life is SO busy. 

xoxox

Blue Poole, Wareham

Last weekend my mum drove over to see us and we decided to head to the blue pool near wareham, to make sure of a token she had for free entry and a cream tea (she won it at a village fete a few weeks back). 

I excitedly jumped in the car and we started nattering about our week, the heavens opened during the drive but we risked it anyway...

At the end of a long drive way is a field style carpark, at one side there's a gate and a man sat in a shed. We giggled slightly at the innocence of the entrance but excitedly walked on through, past the Wareham bears (no photos allowed) and straight on to one of the many walking trails around the blue pool. Sadly, it wasn't very blue at all and the grey sky made taking nice photos quite tricky which was a shame as when Emma from The Style box went they took some beautiful pictures. 

We also made sure to grab our free cream tea, which was more than underwhelming. Tiny scones and a very modest portion of jam and cream served on a polystyrene plate...not the twee british affair that one would expect.

It was a lovely walk, and a lovely day out...but very underwhelming and rather overpriced - adults are £5.50 each! 

Have you been to the blue pool at wareham before?