I heart Hanson

Last night me and my sister went to see Hanson play live. I was a crazy fanatic screaming teenage fan of Hanson when I was younger and was convinced I would marry Taylor Hanson. Last night was the first time I've ever seen them live and I can tell you this much, they've still got it. Taylor if you're reading this, call me!

I'm off to Scandinavian Kitchen to get a few Swedish essentials for our Advent celebration today. It does feel strange thinking about Christmas when it's this sunny outside and the temperature is 13 degrees!

Last night was great, lovely Italian food and good company. By 11 pm I was knackered and feeling quite faint so I got a taxi home. I was very happy when I was finally in my bed.

Toasty toes

Perhaps it's time for me to get changed out of my comfy clothes and slippers (best slippers in the world btw) and start getting ready for tonight? I am going with my sister to a 50th birthday party... I've even bought myself a new dress that miraculously FITS! It's a maternity dress mind you, but still! It's going to be my go-to dress for whenever I need to be a bit dressed up over the Christmas season.

Not half bad...

I'm planning to fritter away the next few hours with a soya hot chocolate, croissant and a book.
This whole thing of starting my maternity leave over 2 months before the baby is due really was not a bad idea!

All's well that ends well.

Yesterday after establishing how lazy I am, I decided to clean out the fridge. After about 20 minutes of back breaking cleaning I realised that the fridge wasn't particularly cold anymore. James thinks the fridge overheated after I had been cleaning it out without switching if off ( I blame my pregnancy brain here...). So there we were with a broken fridge and all that food I had just gone out to buy! At this point I sank in to a deep depression. All that work for nothing.

But then something magical happened! James rang the landlord and he said we could buy a new fridge! I shiny new fridge! It was like Christmas had come early! AND we managed to save all our food by putting it in a cooler bag that is now hanging on a hook outside the back door, safe from the foxes.

Speaking of lazy, today me and James rode our bikes to the leisure centre and went swimming. And I am baking bread as I am typing this (well, the dough is rising..). Guess I'm not so lazy after all!

Lazy mama

I'm so lazy. Even though I am not working anymore and have loads of time on my hands I am getting nothing done. If I get one thing done a day I am impressed with myself! Today that one thing was going to Sainsbury's and doing a big shop. Which took about an hour. Now I am stuck on the sofa drinking cup after cup of tea, eating lemon drizzle cake and watching daytime TV. I keep thinking "I should go clean out the fridge" or "I should put the washing away", but do I actually get up? Erm, no... I really should get my ass in to gear, my to do list goes on for miles. I'm just going to have one more slice of cake first....

Ladies who lunch

I'm out shopping on High Street Kensington with Sabina and we've just had the most delicious lunch in Cafe Concerto and now we are both uncomfortably full. Good thing I'd already done most of the shopping I needed to do, I think I'll need to spend the rest of the afternoon on the couch trying to digest my meal!



Sabina!


Yum.....

Radio silence

I'm on holiday in Sweden for a couple of weeks, hence the radio silence here at Smells like London. I've just arrived in Stockholm after spending 5 days in my home town Umeå. I've had an amazing time so far, lots of time spent with friends, talking about all the important things in life. Lots of walks through my beautiful home town. And of course, lots of "fika".



The beautiful river in my home town, Umeälven...


and the view of the town centre across the river.


My longest standing friend, Maria.


Breakfast at Madde's house.


Yum!


Maria and my brother Petrus.


"Fika" at NK...



and at Mekka!