It's Monday, and it's a rainy, cloudy, and generally dreary day. So much for summer!!

On Saturday we trekked out to Gidea Park in Essex to Sarah and Jake's house for a barbeque. My quinoa salad was very tasty. The ingredients were: quinoa, chickpeas, corn kernals, celery, mushrooms, lemon jiuce and chopped fresh mint. I was very impressed with it. :) And it was so easy as well. All I had to do was cook the quinoa and mix in the vegies. I didn't cook any of the vegies, so there were some crunchy bits and some soft bits.

The barbeque was nice. There were new people to meet and talk to, as well as others who we had met at the wedding. Orlaith was mega grumpy for the first little while, but soon settled after being fed. She was like a child possessed when she saw Sarah's plate had some avacado on it. She lunged at the plate, grabbed the avocado and started stuffing it all into her mouth. It was very amusing to watch, especially as her hand-eye coordination is still developing!! So I ended up with avocado smooshed into my denim skirt and she ended up with it all up her arms.

Sunday we hung around the house a bit. Then headed up to Canary Wharf for some lunch and some shopping. Whilst in HMV, Scott got a call from the partner on his case asking if Scott could go into work for a few hours. This was at 4pm mind you! But he went in, and was home again by 8pm, the partner told him to take a cab home which saves him half an hour in travel time.

And it is another week of work. :-)