wedding: the venue, part 2

Today is the one month mark. In one months time I am getting married. That still sounds like such an immense sentence to speak outloud.One month. Thirty Days. 720 hours. 🙂 Remember when I told you in the middle of July that we hadn’t yet found a venue for our wedding party here in Brussels?…

09.09.09

I know, I know, I am getting lazy again with this here blog. The honest truth is that my life is not full of interesting things to blog about. I mean there’s the wedding plans, but most of that is boring discussions about who still hasn’t rsvp-ed and where to buy purple napkins from. Actually,…

Hedda’s wedding…

Saturday was the wedding of my friend Heather, who I first met in South Africa, when we were volunteering at God’s Golden Acre in KwaZulu Natal. I was a naive idealist (what’s changed?) 18 year old, spending my days washing, ironing and distributing 50+ school outfits to the children and Heather was the mature motherly…

oxfordshire

In four hours I am getting on a train to go home. Well, to my other home. The home that was home for the longest and will alwasy be home even though here is home now. I haven’t been back in five months! I just worked it out by flicking back through my filofax and…

Daring Bakers: Dobos Torta

The August 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonful of Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular Dobos Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers’ cookbook Kaffeehaus:  Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague. “Spectacular” is quite a daring word, don’t you…

wedding: invites

I think there’s some rule that says people are meant to have their invitations to your wedding about two months before the wedding, particularly if they’re expected to travel for it. *cough* Well, they’re going in the post today and the wedding (as my mum posted on her facebook page) is 47 days away. That’s…