Lazy Sunday

Oh what fun Sunday is in the rain. I can't complain really as we have had such beautiful weather of late here in New York. Anything is an improvement on London.

So what to do when it rains? Staying in with the New York Times, endless coffee and delicious food is always a good option. Even when it doesn't rain.

Henry my 4 year old is a superb sous chef. But only if the recipe involves cracking eggs (his favourite thing right now). Otherwise he's bored in under a minute and wanders off. So my 6 egg frittata's always a good one. Or pavlova, or scrambled eggs. On Sunday morning we decided to have a crack at pumpkin and cinnamon pancakes with peanut butter and maple syrup. Quite honestly the most ridiculously good, calorificly amazing breakfast I have EVER eaten. Am I turning American? Scarily.

Not enough action to report from the rest of Sunday as it literally threw down rain until Monday morning so I'm going to cheat and tell you a few other little bits of fabulousness I stumbled across on the weekend (ok so maybe on Friday but hey).

This guy is simply hilarious. His name is Ji Lee and his company is called pleaseenjoy.com. I love him. He is a designer who makes 'parallel worlds'. Little art pieces that are miniature rooms that he installs on your ceiling. If you fancy.

My favourite - R2D2 meets a Hippo - where? the Google offices in New York. Genius.
Oh and just to get back to food.....The Sweet Life - an old fashioned sweet shop on Ludlow and Hester on the Lower East Side sells everything from sweets (clearly) to Vegemite and TimTams. Helpful to know.

Aaah sweet sunday sleep in and coffee and paper in bed. A relaxing start to the day. Hubby had a man sleepover at his brothers place so the house was mine! Yes you heard right man sleepover - they apparently needed 36-hours to prepare for brothers 'Pork in the Park' birthday celebrations on Sunday afternoon hence the sleepover. I think this is code for drinking beer and organising team line-up on Supercoach.

Drank coffee and a meandered down Gertrude Street, Fitzroy with a girlfriend for a few hours intermittedly returning to Leonard St. Clothing to oogle extremely cute ankle boots. Beautiful soft cream leather with wooden heel and gorgeous stitching detail on front - a steal really at AUD$238. The real question is how many pairs of ankle boots does one girl need? Hmm will sleep on it and if they are there in a week I will just have to accept that purchasing them is fate.

Then the highlight of my Sunday 'Pork in the Park'. Nope that is not code for anything quite literally it is eating pork whilst sitting in a park - Darling Gardens in East Melbourne to be geographically exact. The boys had done a spectaular job with roasting the pork - the crackling peeled off like a turtle shell. Totally appreciate the necessity for man sleepover now. The Roast Pork was complimented by every condiment under the sun, sourdough bread and cabbage salad - a birthday feast fit for a king.