Just Tickled Pink

It is the Australia Day long weekend this weekend. Rowan has come over from Sydney for a visit. Yesterday we went to one of Oliver's favourite places - 'Just Tickled Pink'. It is a cafe near our house which specialises in ultra-delicious cupcakes. Rowan kindly treated us all to a cupcake and coffee. William chose a Mars Bar cake, Rowan chose a Banana Caramel cake, Oliver selected their signature pink iced cake, and I chose a trifle cupcake. Inger showed great willpower and resisted. Oliver has a current passion for collecting china cups so he was in his element!

This shot shows just some of the pretty cups which adorn the cafe.

The cafe also acts as a gallery for the owner's personal collection of Audrey Hepburn memorabilia.


A selection of the mouth-watering home-made cupcakes.


Today we invited our dear friends Margaret and Peter and their two girls Kate and Alice over for a barbecue. The boys adore Kate and Alice and had a ball playing with them for the entire afternoon. It meant that the rest of us could have a fairly relaxed afternoon sipping champagne and chatting around the table out under our shady tree. It was just such a wonderful day. The boys fell asleep at 6.30pm while I was preparing their shower. We just slipped them into bed, grubby little feet and all so they could dream about their lovely day. They are very social little boys.