Back to School

 Start of term seemed to come round all of a sudden, and with it the first pangs of Autumn. A slight chill in the air and a more golden sunlight, not to mention the torrential downpour we had midweek, which everyone I spoke with agreed we could have done with a couple of weeks earlier to dampen the raging fire on the nearby moors.

A very Autumnal feel (taken from my window)

The weather is not ours to control. Anyway, we quickly got back into the familiar school run routine, and then on Wednesday I went to get my nails done at lunchtime.

I don’t usually go for a neutral colour, but like the weather, I couldn’t make my mind up, so opted for this nice light coffee colour. 

The week flew by, and once I logged off on Friday I was heading down to Malton to meet the chap for a curry. I overdressed, of course, but I don’t care. I love an opportunity to put my heels on, and these ones I bought back in February and hadn’t yet worn were an absolute delight. 

It was cool enough that I needed my heavier knit River Island metallic dress (a go to of mine that’s definitely appeared on the blog before), my Mint Velvet leather jacket and of course, my Balenciaga bag which I bought in Paris and have been glued to ever since.

Shoes - Carvela, dress - River Island, Jacket - Mint Velvet (via eBay), bag - Balenciaga

I still wasn’t warm enough by the time evening drew in. This time of year seems to be defined by dressing either too warm or not warm enough! We opted for a South Indian restaurant called Kerala, which was a bit different from the standard curry places we usually visit. I had a fish curry, which was delicious.

Happy curry face

Afterwards, we wandered off to find a bar when we were drawn by the sounds of music coming from behind the Brass Castle Brewery Tap. 

There were a couple of guys playing guitar and singing a mixture of songs from Johnny Cash, Stereophonics, Crowded House etc, and a group of obvious Brewery regulars having a good old dance. We grabbed our beers and joined in. Well, kind of joined in, standing along the edge singing along and bopping (me) and dog bothering (the chap). 

Soon it was time for me to get my train home. We’d had a lovely relaxed night out though. Saturday morning I introduced little miss to one of my favourite breakfasts. Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. ‘I’d like this for breakfast every day’ she declared as she lapped it up. I reminded her that pancakes were her favourite breakfast to which she responded, every other day then with pancakes in between! I don’t make pancakes for us every day, they’re a weekend breakfast, so I won’t be rising to this new request, although we may have smoked salmon and scrambled eggs more often now I know she likes it too.

We decided we would take a trip to Harrogate, but halfway there we realised we’d left home too late to make a decent day of it there, so we stopped in York instead. I needed to get little miss some school shoes, so we went to the designer outlet for some Clark’s. 

While perusing, I fell in love with this Michael Kors Alpaca blend jumper. It’s so soft and a beautiful shade of lavender grey, so I bought it for myself as an early birthday present. One thing I know about living in North Yorkshire, a decent jumper is never a waste of money, and given I’ve been looking for a decent jumper (I.e. not 100% Acrylic) for a few weeks, this was exactly what I needed.

Sunday was meant to be a day of chores, and in part it was. I managed to tidy the garden, getting all of the weeds up before Autumn, as well as tidying my lean to. I also managed to kill my washing machine! It came as no surprise, it’s 11 years old and it’s been a slow death that allowed me to save for its replacement, so it was off to Curry’s in the afternoon to choose a new one. 

I also finished the final book in the ACOTAR series. I’m still surprised at how enthralling I found these books. I’m not getting into any more series of books for a while, I’ve lined up a book about folklore of the sea as my next read.