A few days away...

We attempted a move near to Brighton roughly 7 or so years ago but... Winter, scooters, 4wheel drives, country lanes, black ice and fractured bones don't go together or aid a move down south! (This is a whole other story)...

 

After all these years of promising to go back to Brighton we finally decided to go on a bit of a whim... So trawling the internet for a cheap(ish) hotel (family room) with parking in Brighton... Yeah laugh away!!!!...

We finally settled on a Travellodge 2 miles or so from the seafront!... The last Travelodge we stayed in was a flea pit, but this promised more and with parking for £5 for 24 hrs!... Bargain!...

A 3.5 hr journey later & we were there... The hotel was kinda ok too... Great view over a park, clean, comfy good size room, really friendly staff... (But don't have the breakfast! Really, honest don't have the breakfast!)...

 

I love being near the sea, the weather was amazing, sunny with a slight chill, but for November it was awesome... Wondering round the lanes with a massive jogging stroller... so many amazing food shops, too many food shops, tons of veggie food available, falafels galore everywhere... & the best cookies ever...

Bens Cookies...

Peanut butter & chocolate chunk not chip but massive chunks of chocolate...

Hmmmmm... So so good...

I had my sights on a bit of Christmas shopping but the two small one wern't interested in that idea... 

Brighton is a bit of a toddlers paradise lots to see and lots of room to run and explore... so running along the beach, looking at the sea, digging up pebbles and finding a great playground on the beach near the old pier, with sandpits, climbing frames, toilets & changing facilities & a great coffee shop nearby... 

What more can 2 parents and 2 toddlers ask for???!!...

I did actually forget my daughters shoes so yes, she is wearing socks and playing outside in autumn) but she was the luckiest girl alive and did end up with a pair of new shoes, I got a cookie, (an amazing cookie) she got shoes... 

It was a fab few days and now back home to reality xx

Cursed Cookies...

Armed with a voodoo doll cookie cutter (from amazon)  2 toddler sized people... A gingerbread recipe (thanks to @yesimcharlotte) and we attempted to make our voodoo cursed halloween cookies...

Our first batch wern't very successful the dough was too sticky and ripped apart easily so we made decapitated heads instead...

After baking I decided to experiment with cutting the shapes once they were cooled which worked quite well...

After adding some more flour and an extra 30 mins wrapped up in the fridge, the dough was a better consistency to cut shapes from... 

We didn't have that much dough left do made half bodies and erm... Zombie cookies... (I love zombies)...

The end result... They tasted great but were a bit swollen and not quite how I'd imagined them to be... They looked great before going in the oven but not so amazing after... They were fun to make and even more so to eat... #nomnom xx