I Must Go Down To The Seas Again

 

Last weekend Alex and I did what we do best when we meet up and had a massive cooked breakfast. We're making our way round the city sampling all the breakfasts on offer and this weekend we stopped by The Rude Shipyard.

First things first, I love this place. It's a quaint and quirky bookshop/café on Abbeydale Road and is a pretty cool place to go and just chill. It's an absolute wonderland. It's full of cosy rooms with creaky floorboards and of course books! Lots and lots of books (plus the odd banjo). It's the perfect place for a folk performance.

 

 

 

I'm usually all about the pancakes when it comes to breakfast but this time we both had a full English. Alex had a regular and I went for the veggie version and it was beautiful. All homemade and free range.

 

 

 

There are loads of really nice characteristic features like the table having an old Singer sewing base beneath it! There was also a room with an old banjo and mandolin in and not to mention the beautiful original wooden floorboards. It's actually a really nice building and would be lovely to live in, well I suppose it will have been someone's home at one point!

 

 

 

 

So it's definitely the place to go if you're after somewhere a little more peaceful than the hustle and bustle of the city centre. We both said we're definitely going to go more regularly and luckily it's not too far from where me and Ben are moving to.

Don't forget to check out Alex's post on it too!

 

oxoxo

 

 

 

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Cafe Hopping With A Physicist

So yesterday was the much anticipated and not at all dreaded (and that's no lie!) MOT and service day for my little car! I was genuinely quite excited about it as it's my first ever car and so the first time I've had to do it. Luckily it was payday too so not too much to worry about, especially since my mum, an expert haggler, was there. She really pushed this young guy, who was obviously new to the job (and looked a lot like Rico Rizzo). Poor thing, his hands were shaking!

After that I headed into town to meet up with Rebecca, formerly of Sainsbury's, for a day of cafe hopping.
We went to The Attic and had tea and cake. I had such a nice orange and lemon cake.
I love The Attic and I love introducing people to it. It's right at the top of the building so it has lovely views of King's Square. It's got a really relaxed atmosphere and what's especially good is that they're serious about making the best quality coffee, so it's nothing like Starbucks.
Next we stopped in at our usual hang out, The Vanilla Cafe. A very cute, twee tea room with lovely blossom trees outside that are not quite in bloom at the moment, in a great setting right outside the Minster.

 

 

The best news today though was Rebecca's 3rd year exam results which were 3 starred firsts. I didn't even know it was possible to get a starred first! I think that's pretty much as well as you can do. She's doing Physics at York, and it was she who got me interested enough to read A Brief History of Time.
She was ecstatic, she's definitely gonna ace university!