A very causal Saturday

There is nothing that I love more than a super casual weekend (apart from maybe a weekend away), and since Nick and I have been on best behaviour for most of the year so far, chilled out causal weekends have been on the agenda for all of January.

            Following a particularly hectic and busy week at work, this weekend was thankfully no exception to our January norm!

            After all the excitement of our Friday night, Saturday dawned bright and early, so I kick-started my day with a trip to Tekka wet market to stock up on fruit, veggies, meat and fish. We’re out of town for over half of this week, but following a Tekka trip I always end up with a gloriously full fridge, so an early Saturday shop meant that my Sunday would also be wonderfully filled with cooking-to-freeze entertainment too.

Beautiful, crazy Tekka Market

Once the craziness of shopping at Little India’s Tekka was accomplished I spent the rest of my morning drinking Starbucks and getting my hair cut, coloured and poofed. Sadly I don’t ever seem to look as elegant as other people while they are being preened.

Seriously lacking "beauty parlour elegance"

Then the latter part of our day was filled with picking out our wedding invites and then a lovely lunch out in the sunshine at a place we stumbled upon by accident called Artichoke. It’s tucked behind an old church building that is now being used as an art gallery space, and it served us some truly amazing, but incredibly naughty lunchtime treats.

The lovely Artichoke Cafe

VERY naughty fried chicken lunch

Thankfully our evening plans were just for a very low-key fish BBQ supper with our neighbours Liv and Matt, so luckily we managed to just about cancel out the damage to the diet plans that we did at lunch. Oops!