{Sunny Daffs make Winter seem not quite so cold}

After a couple of snow flurries last week it got me seriously wishing for a few real days of snow. The kind we used to have once a year, where you'd get up early to see if school was closed for the day and find your sledge before your hands and feet feel numb for the cold and you come inside for a hot chocolate. I was looking back through some photos from previous years, I think it was 2012 and 2013 where we had some real thick stuff to go and play in. Given that I should have started this blog a few years ago, I've got a backlog of my favourite photos to post, hence this post. Let's call this post Snowspiration and we'll pray for the snow gods to let us have some fun this year. Snowy photos, if you'd like to see -

Following on from last week's beachcombing post, a short guide on framing sea coral today for a bathroom or anywhere in your house.

{Spring blooms will be filling my kitchen until April, and beyond, from now}

{Roll on Spring please!}

Scon or scoan? That age old debate like which order to top them with. Jam or cream first? I'd go with saying scoans dahhling and I actually only like jam on mine, maybe just a tiny bit of cream. I think the order you top them with comes from if you're from Devon or Cornwall? Anyway, whatever your preferences I thought I'd blog a recipe for one of my favourite bakes today after going through some photos from last year. They're so easy, the kind of thing you can make, clear up from and dash to the village for jam and clotted cream all within an hour of finding out you have last minute guests arriving. Everybody loves fresh scones, so quintessentially English. Perfect for afternoon teas in the summer in the garden or just with your Grandma in the kitchen. This recipe is from the queen of baking herself, Mary Berry.

Our Christmas present to each other this year, like last year, was to book a cottage for the first week of January to start the year off. It was a long drive to the Lakes last year, and to somewhere like Devon and Cornwall but Norfolk is just over two hours from us and we'd been there before, for just two nights last summer, and really loved it. I'm a bit fussy when it comes to cottages as I think I've mentioned before so jumped at booking one of the Cartshed Cottages at Sharrington Hall after lots of googling. They all looked beautiful, boutiquey, in a good location and so tastefully done. It had to have a log burner, our winters can be so cold and if it was bad weather we wanted somewhere comfy and cosy to snuggle up in. We hit the jackpot with Shell, our chosen cottage for the week and had such a heavenly start to the year with long beach walks, amazing food {post Christmas detox started as soon as I got back} and cosy afternoons in the cottage.

{So much love. We've had the best week <3}

Happy Weekend! Officially through the first week of January. We've been in Norfolk this week, a little cottage/seaside escape to start the year off. We've had such a lovely time, I really don't want to go home and face reality. I'm looking forward to blogging the North Norfolk coast and the beautiful cottage we've stayed in, I could quite happily live here. How was your week? Feels like ages since I've done one of these posts. Here are a few of my favourite moments from this week and the usual weekend musings..