Luxefoodie's Profile

Oh and yes, my mum wouldn't feed me mad crazy Kale, Quinoa etc... I was fed, cabbage, and pulses etc but sensibly so. You can't give a child a massive protion of Umami lukewarm grains and be offended if the child doesnt like it. Just good normal food, mash potatoes, chops, pork or lamb, buttered vegetable, spaghetti bolognese, shepherds pie, Heinz tomato soup sometimes too! Homemade chicken pies, beef, steak and ale, fish fingers and beans, salads. I was told broccoli were baby trees when I asked what they were (I loved trees and never asked or questioned them again), and now broccoli is still my favourite. And if I had breadcrumbed chicken , it was homemade schnitzel. My mum was full time working single mother. It was my normal.

Well I am rather clean and tidy with my bedroom already but I will dutifully change over my bedlinens to fresh clean new ones, along with the flowers. I will also take down and wash the curtains and re hang them, with some lead weights in the bottom. (thats one of my jobs on the list from Day One. I will also try and upholster my bedroom chest (another job from the list), and sort and clear out under the bed, thats the main "deep-clean" needed in my bedroom... also has anyone ever tried those vacuum sucky bags to flat pack and store clothes.. ? they are amazing!!

Oooooh this January cure get's better and better. Sleeves rolled up and digging right in. I have planned some much needed "me time' tomorrow, a run early morning, first class of my spanish course until lunchtime at my local library. Then I will reward myself with a nice pooch around the shops and a little treat (I have my eyes on a shirt in zara) in the afternoon for just a short while. Saturday evening will be "kitchen blitz" time for me and so I will get stuck right in, starting with my fridge.....

Wonderful cure for the day, I have an amazing piece of art that was available as a one off commission by the local (to my part of London) area artists Gilbert and George, on the internet via a special website for only 24 hours... I downloaded it years ago and in typical Gilbert and George style its a series of 9 A4 frames designed to be shown as one big picture, I bought the frames in the lead up to christmas last year so all that I have to do now is choose some fab paper and get my graphic designer stepdad to print it up for me. SO exciting, can't wait!

I am so excited and getting right into the January cure, thus far I am up to date with -my 'January Cure' list, the 'Outbox' is up and running, and for day 3, I have come home from work tonight and started to have a little sort out, filling up even more my outbox which now contains
- 2 lovely deep red plastic boxes
- an entire boxed set of sex and the city (entire series on dvd - which I know will have to go *sob)
- a black giant box that was full of old paperwork from when I moved back to London from Geneva earlier this year (which I hasten to add I have tonight entirely emptied and sorted through important and unimportant paperwork, receipts etc.

My work desk where I am now sitting as I type; has been cleaned and it's drawer sorted and emptied (again, it was full of junk), AND I have sorted out all my half finished knitting projects and put them away into my special knitting trunk, having left just one out to work on.

It feels amazing to b getting straight in this little slice-of-heaven apartment where I live.

Tomorrow morning the floors (to be cleaned with Method laminate floor cleaner which I already had and LOVE the smell of) it makes my floors SO lovely and shiny. I have also extended the green clean concept to the bathroom - for which I use another method cleaner (it smells like spearmint - yum), and lastly FLOWERS, for which I have organized a girly walk along the beautiful Columbia Road flower market, with a friend on Sunday morning to treat myself to some lovely flowers - for some reason this tomboy homemaker fancies pink peonies... hmmmm