beach walk

D and I went for a walk along the beach out at Eastbourne. I wanted to walk round to the Pencarrow Lighthouse but I was only wearing thin jandals. Rocky beach + jandals = bad combination. It was yet another gorgeous Wellington day. Recently, I've nearly forgotten I live in Wellington and think I'm back in sunny Nelson. It has been an amazing summer.

Life has been a bit crazy lately - with lots of extra hours spent at work. I've been doing a wee bit of baking - but nothing memorable. I never got round to making Easter cupcakes, which is sad because I had some great ideas.

Mum is coming for a visit this week which I am looking forward to. It will be nice to chill out and spend some time with her. D commented today that he was worried about cooking (yes... he does the bulk of the nighttime meal cooking - he loves it, I swear) as my Mum is such an amazing cook. I thought that was lovely (though I'm not 100% convinced that Mum actually lives up to this idol-lic status... Sorry Mummy!).

I made some blue and green cupcakes for D's brother's birthday. they didn't cope with the heat very well (what was I saying about Wellington weather) and the icing melted a bit....

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inarizushi

Tonight I made inarizushi for dinner, (I also made enough for bento tomorrow and to freeze a couple). All I can say is YUM. They were absolutely delish and so easy to make! I got the recipe/inspiration from JustHungry. JustHungry (& JustBento) is an awesome blog for Japanese style food. That said, there are lots of fantastic non-Japanese style recipes too. I highly recommend a trip over there to check them out.

Despite being REALLY good (I did go out to Flying Burrito Brothers for a work dinner one night - but I didn't have dessert!) I haven't lost a lot more weight. I think I've only really maintained last week's 4kg loss. I'm consoling myself with the thought that I would have been perfectly happy with two weeks of 2kg weight loss - so whats the difference!

My daily walks home with Natalie have been really good and we've walked in lots of different weather! Boiling hot sun to gale force winds and sea spray. Last week I took my camera on one such day and took these snaps: (which meant I had to run to catch up with Nat!)