For my girlfriend’s birthday we had a big weekend of sunshine and fun. I took her for a posh meal in the OXO tower on Friday, then we had a party on Saturday, with a sunny garden full of people.  Friends from Holmfirth travelled here for the weekend, so on Sunday we all went for a sunny walk in hampstead heath and and look around sunny Camden market. I’ve just stuck many sunny photos on facebook, but here I’d like share this photo with you…

Feijoada! We had to go shopping for a special kind of black beans to make this Brazilian dish. The big Morrisons didn’t have them. Eventually we found them in a little supermarket on Severn sisters’ road, and we bought their entire stock. About 20 tins of beans for the party  …Yummy!