ephemerette

It's truly amazing how bit of sunshine lifts my mood. Although my attitude towards the weather is usually 'we live in England..get over it', I have to admit I'm starting to feel a little bit worn down by the rain and snow and generally feeling cold all the time. Looking out of the window I can just see another tiny sprinkle of snow settling on the branches of the trees. I'm going to sit here hugging a cup of creamy hot chocolate and dream that one day soon spring will come. I took this photo of the west pier in Brighton on a blazing day last summer . The pier burnt down about 7 years ago and it's skeleton has been slowly crumbling into the sea ever since, somehow I think it still looks quite pretty.

Wondering around the V & A on a quiet afternoon. It's such a gorgeous building full of amazingly inspiring things, it melds the past and present together beautifully. Sadly I don't wonder round museums as often as I'd like to now days, but occasionally I have a 'secret day' - take the day off work, tell no one what I'm doing or where I'm going and go off somewhere for a self indulgent time.

A while back one of my friends introduced me to The Hummingbird Bakery on Portobello Road. We spend a lovely day spent mooching around boutiques touching things we couldn't afford. Then we huddled over cups of tea and chatted between mouthfuls of delicious gem like cakes. I was instantly smitten by the dazzling displays of multicoloured cupcakes and cosy atmosphere. Joy. Since then I've developed a very slight mania for fancy cupcakes (anything that comes in a wrapper just wont do), something about them just makes me grin. The problem is there doesn't seem to be enough of these shops in London, plenty of independent online cupcake shops out there but you can't impulse buy a little beauty when the mood takes you or you want to brighten someones day up with some baked goods! So the other day I was planning a wander around the V&A and remembered reading there was a branch of Hummingbird Bakery round the corner from the museum on ...