Elba.

There’s this little speck of an island off the coast of Italy…

…with the prettiest port, fancy stores…

…seriously fancy yachts, brightly coloured bunting strung up everywhere.

Where the beaches are white pebbles and the water is so clear you can see the bottom. Where my boys, goggles on, duck dived and swam with the fishes (but didn’t “swim with the fishes” if you know what I mean). It was one of the nicest days of our trip.

Holiday, please.

I’ve decided I need a holiday. Look at this and convince me otherwise!

Hmmm, thought so!

Holiday.

We had a lovely break. I feel compelled to share it. Mostly in pictures.

We caught a plane.  

Maggie Beer.

Hahndorff.

Beach.

Little Penguin tour.

Coffee and courgette cake.

Coffee and chubby legs at Cibo.

Shopping and sunsets. 

Belsize Square the Store- Now Trading!!!

D’you like our shop? Please come and visit us, we are now open!

Oh yeah, this is where I’ve disappeared to, felt too guilty every time I logged on to do anything fun like blog, so I’ve been strictly head down, bum up trying to get the shop ready for it’s soft launch. And talk about soft launch, we’ve strapped pillows all over it so it doesn’t explode on impact! This is some of my most favourite stuff that’s for sale there, right now!

If you’re here reading this, then I love you already (of course), but if you fancy take a stroll over to our shop and have a play. I’ll be ever so grateful.

Actually, I am such a liar, also managed to have the little terror’s second birthday and sneak in a 5 day holiday when I didn’t think about work at all (and even found some sunshine and warm weather, yeay!) Bubba boys had fun too…

It’s really not a proper holiday unless you visit a big thing.

Actually, I didn’t take this photo. It was (sadly) our second visit to the big pineapple in a year and as lumpy was asleep I didn’t actually get out of the car. Pumpkin and his dad did the train ride, saw the koalas (which, according to pumpkin, are very smelly) – did the whole schemozzle.