The week in brief: 4 June – 10 June
This week: Henry and the Fox, breakfast at Hub and… that’s kind of it. Also, hooray for long weekends. 🙂
Also – check out Big Ted. (Bro bought him from Costco.) The bear is so massive I could barely lift it. (Weak.)
This week, I caught up with my dastardly friend Haz for a quick drink at Mr Mason.
Hooray for fires (even gas ones) – it was so toasty warm sitting next to it. I’m pretty much over winter already. Bring on summer. We don’t have long to go… right??!
We then went to Henry and the Fox for a bloggers dinner (disclosure: I was invited and it was complimentary).
Dinner was pretty good. The mains were a bit salty, but the entrees and desserts were excellent. Blog post to come.
This week it was my colleague’s birthday. She told me last week about her birthday, and then followed up with, “I hate birthdays.”
Well. My cruel streak couldn’t let that pass and so I devised ways of tormenting her about her birthday the whole week. Mwhahaha. I really did torture her too. I’m so mean.
But I did bake her a cake to compensate – this molasses cake which was AWESOME. SO SO GOOD. I took the whole cake to work, but made a small one for Alastair to have. 🙂 My cream cheese icing was a bit runny but gawd it was delicious.
Seriously, you have to make this cake. It’s amazing.
Yesterday, I dragged myself out of bed to head to St Kilda for breakfast at Hub, part of Hotel Urban (disclosure: invited, complimentary). I’m really not a morning person, and having to head southside on a grey, drizzly morning didn’t put me in a very good mood. :p
Fortunately, breakfast was good. Check out these crumpets. They came with lemon and honey and were really good – so fluffy.
For breakfast I chose the croque madam. It was delicious but it totally defeated me because it was absolutely jam packed with ham and cheese.
And finally, in the afternoon we went to see Prometheus. I thought it was really good but afterwards I had SO MANY QUESTIONS.
However, we couldn’t find a bloody car park at stupid bloody Highpoint (it took 45 minutes) – so missed the session we were originally booked for. We had over an hour to wait for the next week, so I decided we should have something to eat to kill time. We went to Guzman y Gomez, the newish fast food Mexican place where I ate a mini burrito and corn chips. The corn chips were served warm – they were awesome. The burrito wasn’t bad either.
Today was really quiet and I’m looking forward to tomorrow because it’s a long weekend, baby! (Thanks to the Queen.) If you have a day off – what’re you up to? And if not… how was your week?
Winston
June 10, 2012 @ 10:17 pm
You’re always SO happening, Agnes!! Making me feel old for not going out as much HAHA. But good stuff.. And omg at that Costco teddy bear. It’s one of those things that I never knew if people would buy (like that massive playground set in there), until now… ;p
But yum. Your Henry and the Fox meal sounded great =D
Agnes
June 10, 2012 @ 10:56 pm
Haha oh Winston, if you’re old, I’m ancient. ANCIENT.
The Costco teddy is freaking huge. It’s amazing. We saw quite a few people buying them – it’s one of those things that people love!
Sarah
June 11, 2012 @ 12:22 am
I recently saw Prometheus too! I loved it! Michael Fassbender as a blonde robot? Perfection!
I haven’t seen the Alien films yet (gasp!) but I have the DVDs so should sit myself down and watch them.
Agnes
June 15, 2012 @ 10:46 pm
Michael Fassbender was amazing, wasn’t he? He was definitely the highlight. I loved him in it.
(And I haven’t seen the Aliens movies either.)
Trish
June 11, 2012 @ 4:29 am
who doesnt like a bit o’ crumpet – ooo, I say! Public holiday monday – YAY, Im up at 4am to go to yoga. wtf…
Agnes
June 15, 2012 @ 10:47 pm
4am?!? Public holiday – you’re doing it wrong. 🙂
Hannah
June 11, 2012 @ 2:44 pm
Molasses and sprinkles OMG SO GOOD. I wish you’d been here to make my birthday better.
Agnes
June 15, 2012 @ 10:47 pm
Awwww. One year I’ll make you a molasses cake with sprinkles. <3
Annette
June 11, 2012 @ 6:37 pm
The cake looks great, but will pass for now as we are stuffed with food, including cake, after a great party weekend in Gloucestershire with friends. Now busy packing up for our 6 days of walking the Dales Way –essential to walk off all the food we just ate – (not to mentioned the 19 homebrewed wines we sampled!!!)
Agnes
June 15, 2012 @ 10:48 pm
Good luck walking off all that food (and the homebrewed wine!)
love2dine
June 12, 2012 @ 2:00 am
Your recipes and photos are always wonderful
roger
June 12, 2012 @ 10:41 am
Thansk for the mention and pics. hope to see you again soon. Roger
Agnes
June 15, 2012 @ 10:49 pm
My pleasure – thanks for a lovely breakfast 🙂
Iron Chef Shellie
June 12, 2012 @ 5:17 pm
I wonder if Pat will ever regret buying such a giant bear 😛
Agnes
June 15, 2012 @ 10:50 pm
Hahaha… nah… oh… maybe… 😉 It doesn’t seem to be living in our house, so who knows?
msihua
June 12, 2012 @ 6:17 pm
I still think that bear is too big!!!
Agnes
June 15, 2012 @ 10:51 pm
Haha it’s really big. Almost as tall as me. :p