Pumpkin Spiced Iced Chai Latte

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Pumpkin spiced chai latte

Hello from Melbourne! I’ve been home for about a week now and over the jet lag I had going for the first couple of days! The flight over was looooooong as you can imagine and Joe and I pretty much didn’t sleep at all (seriously I don’t understand how some people can sleep for the entire flight!). So yeh the first couple of days I was feeling a bit loopy and just in a daze but as I said that’s passed!

We were greeted with warm weather when we arrived, in fact one day it reached 36C/96F but true to Melbourne weather the last few days it we had showers and cold weather! It went down to 8C/46F!!! I had forgotten how unpredictable Melbourne weather can be… luckily I packed a couple of warm things. Today the weather is better and hopefully we will be getting more of that summer sun that I desperately need, because I’m going to need it before I get back to England! [Read more…]

Paleo Pear Crumble

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If you looked outside our living room window right now you would think it was the middle of Winter and not the beginning of Spring! There is snow EVERYWHERE and it has been FREEZING for the past few days! According to The Daily Mail this is the coldest March since 1963!

Apparently last year at this time temperatures reached to 22C/71F which is not even HOT, especially to an Aussie who is used to temperatures of 30+C/86+F… but I’ll tell you what that 22C sounds PERFECT right now! In fact anything over 10C/50F would make me happy right now… a statement I would have NEVER made back in Australia.

Since the weather’s been like this I haven’t really felt like doing much other than staying inside and keeping warm! Luckily The Healthy Life Summit is on, so I spent most of Sunday listening to the first day of podcasts and I’m currently listening to the second day of talks while typing out this blog post. So far the talks have been excellent! Who else has been listening?

Uhhhh well enough about the weather, it’s unfortunately one of those things that you can’t control but hopefully the sun will come out to play soon (fingers crossed). [Read more…]

Almond Crusted Chicken with Garlic Cauliflower Mash

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Plate of almond crusted chicken and garlic cauliflower mash

It’s cold, it’s cold… IT’S COLD! Did I mention it’s cold? Last night we went walking and I wore so many layers that it was hard for me to even move and today at work the heating wasn’t working properly so I was sitting there freezing and it’s not even officially winter yet!

As if that wasn’t bad enough I have people back home constantly reminding me of how warm it’s getting there and seeing photos of people at the beach or sitting outside at a nice cafe…. NOT FAIR!

On the plus side I think our heating bill will be a lot cheaper this year since for some reason our new apartment gets quiet warm so we don’t need to run the heater all day. Speaking of apartments there’s an old lady that lives in the apartment across from us and she must be in her late 80′s, anyway today she put up Xmas decorations on the door at the main entrance to our building which I thought was so cute and when I complimented her on it she seemed so pleased 🙂 [Read more…]

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