Cat Morley


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Oct

5

Mad Hatter's Afternoon Tea
We treated ourselves to the Mad Hatter's Afternoon Tea at the Sanderson London this afternoon. The hotel was lovely and the afternoon tea was held in their courtyard, with cozy blankets and heater...

4

Tea & Crafting
Dad got me a voucher for a ring making at Tea & Crafting for my birthday and the night of the workshop had finally arrived. The class took place at their super cute studio just next to Covent ...

Sep

29

Pop Art Sushi
It turns out that there's a tikki bar opposite our house called South London Pacific. Even better, they serve £3 tikki cocktails before 10pm. When I'd spotted that you could get a ferris wheel of...

28

Best Coffee Guide
The Best Coffee Guide saw some of my photos of Edinburgh coffee shops and got in touch to ask if I'd like to write some reviews for them. It's the perfect fit as I like to work in coffee shops, an...

27

Bompas & Parr
Motcomb Street was reopening after refurbishment this evening and was having a street party to celebrate. The Old Dirty Brasstards were playing a brass rendition of Royals by Lord when we arrived ...

22

Nordic Bakery
The family are away on a trip to Hastings, so I had a quite day catching up on work and then met Tom for lunch in Soho. We went to the Nordic Bakery famous for it's Scandinavian food and cinnamon ...

20

Dragon Palace
The family were back to stay today and this time my Mum was with them, so we had a very full house. We'd wandered past the Walworth Garden a few earlier and I thought it would be somewhere Mum wou...

19

Chino Latino
The family were away on a trip to Bath today, so Tom and I treated ourselves to dinner out at Chino Latino. Chino Latino is in the swanky Park Plaza hotel on Albert Embankment, which has an LED li...

18

Amazon Development Centre
The family were off to se Stonehenge today so Tom and I had been left to our own devices in London. Amazon were hosting an event at their new offices near Liverpool Street so we headed along to ch...

15

Friday
We went for breakfast at Vanilla Black this morning, sitting out in the courtyard and tucking into porridge and iced coffee. Whenever my Dad goes to the British Museum, I know to stay home as he c...

14

The Canadians Have Arrived
Grandma and Bruce arrived in London this morning and they'd got plenty of sleep on the plane, so were ready to head out and see the city. Grandma loves horses and Bruce loves kissing alpacas so I ...

10

Bermondsey Beer Mile
There's a series of breweries based out of railway arches in Bermondsey known as the Bermondsey Beer Mile and each weekend they're open to the public, so you can go on a pub crawl between them.

8

Tommyfield
We went out for dinner at our local gastropub, the Tommyfield this evening. I had a super food salad topped with tofu, quinoa and avocado. Tom had beer battered halloumi which tasted exactly like...

1

Cupcakes & Shhht
We were being so boring today that Bobbin decided to hang our with Alexa instead of us. She likes to put her paws on the Amazon Echo anytime Alex speaks. For dinner, we decided to order vegan junk...

Aug

29

Brixton
Though we only live just up the road from Brixton, we had never really explored it before this evening. There's a memorial to David Bowie down one of the side streets as he was born in Brixton and...

27

Silent Pool
After packing up our tent this morning, we headed to Salisbury in search of breakfast. It was a pretty little town filled with Tudor buildings and covered in bunting. We decided to try Cosy Club ...

23

Baby Driver
One of our local pubs, The Grand Union has been bough up by the Brewhouse chain and transformed into The Tankard. We decided to try it out for dinner this evening and it was warm enough to sit out...

20

Sewer Museum
It was our last day in Paris, so we decided to have breakfast out on our balcony. Tom brought back coffee and pastries from Le Grenier a Pain including some madeleines which were on my to-eat list.

18

Moulin Rouge
It was Tom's birthday and I'd booked us breakfast at Coppa Club at Tower Bridge to kick off our adventure. We were sat in a flower covered cabana with a gorgeous view over the Thames.

14

Atomic Blonde
It was Date Night tonight so we headed to the Kino Bermondsey for dinner and a movie. We sat outside and tucked into pizza from Elephantastic Pizza while we waited for our movie. We then picked u...

13

Petersham Nurseries
It was a lovely day today so we headed to Richmond where we parked up next to the canal. We went for lunch at Petersham Nurseries which was one of the prettiest places I've ever been to.

10

Oaka
We decided to try out Oaka at The Mansion House, one of our local Kennington restaurants this evening. Oaka is a cosy candle-lit bar and restaurant serving Pan-Asian food. We shared a bottle of w...

9

Regina Spektor
We went for crepes at La Petite Bretagne in Hammersmith after work. I was in the mood for something sweet so I had the chestnut jam crepe while Tom had the Océane with smoked salmon, dill and Crèm...

5

Whitstable
I was finally feeling better today after two weeks with the flu, so we decided to take a nice drive along the coast. We ended up in Whitstable where we parked up at Tankerton Beach. There were do...

4

Bobbin's Birthday
It was Bobbin's birthday today so Tom spoiled her with a fish-filled tea party from Fortnum & Mason. As well as fresh smoked salmon, he brought home salmon pate and some seaweed crackers so we...