Happy holidays.

You know you are relaxed when you have no aches and pains, no thumping stress headaches. I am so grateful for this back to front holiday. Easter is everything Christmas is not. Relatively stress free, nothing but chocolate to buy, no cards to write, no crazy present haul via Amazon!!Last Sunday was Easter day and we woke up super early and drove over to the Wirral and went to church where we got married. it was a sunny joyful day and I love that special church as everyone I have ever loved had been there for our marriage 15 years ago.So the weekend was glorious and now we have oodles of time to just be. Be lazy, be a proper Mummy baking, be able to go for days out without having to be somewhere at a certain time.
So we ventured out today to Sedbergh, Hawes and Dent. I felt really energised and calm , that`s when Matty said "it`s probably because you`re in Yorkshire." We had veered over the Cumbrian border and that is maybe why I felt so "at home". We went barefoot into the meditation centre where we had said goodbye to our beautiful friend Sam in November. This time though it was warm in there and sunny and all the harshness of Winter had melted away and hope was springing up everywhere in the countryside. We stopped for cider and pork scratchings in the pub there which was rammed with rosey faced walkers all huddling round the real fire. The day just felt "real" and I was with who I really wanted to be with. We went to hawdraw falls and just marvelled at the sheer force of nature and ran underneath the thundering waterfall , like loonies. Then it was hometime, I think of Yorkshire as my spiritual home but wherever Matty, James,Lily and Jemima are is my true home. They were all starving and were threatening to break into the pot noodles,so I promised I could make them something more delicious quicker.This is what I came up with and they all are snoozing now with full tummies, dreaming of sheep and waterfalls and happy days...

No pot noodle supper

1 pack of spaghetti
salt
1 pack smoked salmon
1 garlic cheese roule
single cream
lemon juice
black pepper
1 pack sugar snap peas


Cook the spaghetti in boiling salted water for ten minutes, add a nob of butter to make glossy. Stir in the salmon, cheese, cream , pepper and squeeze of lemon. Microwave the peas for 1 minute and add to the pot. reheat til the creamy sauce is warmed through and the salmon is pink. Yum. Eat greedily in 5 big bowls, better than a pot noodle anyday.