May 28th: Farewell feast

Today I'm grateful for a nice spot of Thai with the family to send Simon off back to the Navy after his month's leave.

May 27th: lazy lie in

Today I'm grateful for a lovely lazy bank hols lie in with some rubbish reading material

May 26th: Greenway

Today I'm really grateful for a lovely walk along the Greenway to Cookham on such a nice sunshiney day :)

May 25th: blitzed broc

Today I'm grateful for the little tip I read online about whizzing broccoli up in a food blender raw to chuck in salads. Knocked up this little number tonight. Yummings

May 24th: Friday

Today I was grateful it was Friday and a bank hols coming up...so grateful I forgot to take a photo. Oops.

May 23rd: Smile

Today I'm grateful for the little smile this brought to my lips this evening when I saw it in the kitchen. Alex's snacks ready to take into work tomorrow.

May 22nd: these boots...

were made for walking! Today I'm grateful for my fitbug to keep an eye on me and my legs for keeping me moving

May 21st: Pimenton

Today I'm grateful for having found this yummy ingredient in Sainsburys

May 20th: A walk in the park

Today, I was grateful that there's a 'nice' park to walk around and sit in during my lunch breaks, until I read about the attack that happened practically in this alley way later today. Nice. So now I'm grateful it wasn't me who was attacked.

May 19th: New togs

Today I'm grateful for finding some nice new gym trou in Marlow

May 18th: Reunion

Today I'm grateful to have spent time with some lovely ladies I used to work with. Lovely catching up, sharing news and fizz.

May 17th: Mmmmeatballs

ok, sorry, so this is another Gwyneth food post: Today we're both grateful for turkey meatballs!

May 16th: Picnic with pickle

Today I'm grateful that Alex drove up to meet me for lunch on his day off...and the weather was a bit better than mine and mum's attempt yesterday

May 15th: lunch with mum

Today I'm grateful that my mum came to meet me in my lunch hour and we had a little picnic that she'd bought with her by the river together.

May 14th: Overwhelmed

Tonight I'm grateful that my post was published on Tiny Buddha, and totally overwhelmed by the huge response it's had. wowsers.

May 13th: Mmmmmango

Today I'm grateful for the existence of these beautiful things. And the people who get them over here so I can get them into my tummy

May 12th: Hold your horses

Today I'm grateful for a day at Royal Windsor Horse Show, especially the dogs! I'll upload the photo later when I've sifted through them all and cropped them so you can actually see said dogs in the distance!

May 11th: Pickle at Pinkneys Green

Today I'm grateful that Pickle accompanied me to the steam fair...even though he really didn't want to, and we then had to hang about and wait for the rain to stop (after he had warned me it was going to rain. a lot!)

May 10th: On ice

Today I'm grateful to watch The Professionals on Ice. Super cool (literally, was freezing in there). Phone's camera wasn't quite up to the job but you get the gist!

May 9th: Hungry Caterpillar

Today I'm grateful that I had time to sneak my phone into the pre-school room after all the children had gone to take a quick pic of our new Hungry Caterpillar board. Quite proud of that really.

May 8th: YUM

I make no apologies for yet another food themed post, I am still totally in love with my Gwyneth cookbook and this is basically two of our new favourite meals in one. Amazing herby grilled chicken and totally surprising mango and avocado salad. Grateful indeed.

May 7th: Miso

Today I'm grateful that my first miso soup turned out really rather nice.

May 6th: Many things

Today I'm grateful for this...

this...

and this.

May 5th: Family and fish!

Today I'm grateful for a chance to see my brother, for a lovely walk back along the river from Dorney, and for these yummy fish cooked by yours truly ce soir.

May 4th: Beet it

Today I'm grateful for some lovely fresh ingredients, yummy recipes to try and all the time in the world to savour the result together.

May 3rd: Hip hip hooray...

...it's a bank holiday! and for that I am very grateful. 3 lovely long days just to us.

May 2nd: Early doors

Today I'm grateful to all the parents who picked their children up early meaning I was out, down the hill and snuggled up at home by 6.30.

May 1st: Looked out for

Today I'm grateful that, although I'm rubbish at remembering to take my supplements and whatnot, somebody else is looking out for me