Luca

Kelly and Josh were home for the weekend for the Liverpool match. Kelly's family the McCann's are big Liverpool fans so she wanted to be home to soak up the atmosphere and to see the parade that happened today even though they didn't bring home the Champions League trophy they already announced that they would parade the FA and Carabao Cup.

We went to Luca on Allerton Road with Danielle and Matt. Luca used to be 109 Allerton which I'd been to a few times for lunch and enjoyed it and was always busy so not sure why it shut and has now reopened as an Italian small plates and cocktail place. The lunch and evening meals looks good so will be back to try it.

Avocado Artisan Sourdough - £10

Poached Eggs, smashed avocado, artisan sourdough, vincotto, breakfast radish, fried onions

I got the avocado toast which was nice until I realised there was coriander in it which wasn't mentioned on the menu. The server did ask beforehand if we had any allergies or intolerances but didn't expect them to put coriander with my avocado as I've never had it before. So they definitely needed to put it on the menu that there was going to be micro herbs and coriander. Other than that the sourdough wasn't tough and hard to cut like usual which was good. Without the coriander would have been a good avocado toast albeit a fancy one.

Matt

Vegan Breakfast - £11.50

Wild mushrooms, avocado, roasted tomato, vegan sausage, crispy potato, baked beans, toasted artisan sourdough

The beans came in its own little pot which Matt did hold and model for me but I missed it

Josh

Nduja Scrambled Eggs Artisan Sourdough - £11

Toasted artisan sourdough, chilli agrodolce, mascarpone

Danielle

Wild Mushrooms on Artisan Sourdough - £11

Poached eggs, pan roasted wild mushrooms, pancetta, pickled shallots

Kelly

Benedict Alla Fiorentina - £11.50

Prosciutto di Parma, poached eggs, herb mornay, toasted artisan sourdough

I liked that we all got different things and basically everything off the breakfast menu. Just needed 2 more people then that would have been the whole breakfast menu covered! It was dead in there when we went at 11:15am but guessing people were still hungover from last night. It's got some good reviews for dinner so presuming it gets busy of a night or later on when they have the full food small plates menu.

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West Ham United v Watford

Tuesday 8th February 2022

Took a very last minute trip down to London on Tuesday afternoon and came back on Thursday night. My dad was working in Enfield and was driving down so I decided to tag along for the ride. Super grateful that Kelly and Josh let me stay for 2 nights on such short notice. 

I drove down to Kelly's in Amersham which took around 4 hours from Liverpool then my dad took my car to where he was going and would pick me up on the way back. Much rather have took the train but the drive wasn't too bad only a bit of traffic when we got to Birmingham then the rest of the drive was clear and straightforward.

Kelly was working in the office and Josh was working from home so he was in and I basically ran to the toilet put my bags down did a quick change then we had to get the train as we were going to the West Ham game. Got the train to Marylebone then changed to get the tube and I couldn't tell you what tubes we got as we changed a few times. I just followed Josh but pretty sure we ended up in Hackney... We went to a pub to wait for Kelly. They had a pint then we went to get some food before the match. We walked along the canal and found this little boat called Baltic Fresh Sea Food and got some pre match calamari.

I got calamari and salad

 Kelly and Josh both got calamari and chips - Salad or chips was £9.

It was good calamari wasn't greasy at all and had a good flavour to them. Good pre match dinner. Once we ate we went to the stadium. West Ham play at the Olympic Stadium which is now called the London Stadium where they had the opening and closing ceremony and the athletics at the London 2012 Olympics. Really gutted I never went to the Olympics but at least I can say I've been to the Olympic park now. Need to go to a day time match so I can walk around the park and see the orb properly as we were on the wrong side of the stadium to see it.

Before the match there is a weird pyro light show with flames and flashing lights. Something a bit different to a start of a football match for sure. The stadium is huge and very different to being at Goodison Park. It's round rather than being square and so much more space. Also so many more toilets - clean and new.. 

Game started slow and wasn't great the first half apart from the Kurt Zouma boos and chants whenever he had the ball. Him starting after the cat video definitely wasn't the best choice. The second half definitely got better and the match ended with West Ham winning 1-0 so at least there was a goal and it was at our end. We were sat near the away end and the abuse the Watford fans were giving especially by actual teenagers... 

It was a good night and glad I got to go to a match as I usually go to London in the summer when the season is over so this was a nice unplanned trip! Also Tom the lead singer from Blossoms was sat next to us but Kelly and Josh didn't recognise him until we googled and it was definitely him. Should have got a selfie and asked for guest list as they're supporting The Killers when I finally get to see them in Manchester in June (this was meant to happen 2 years ago but thanks to covid it keeps getting cancelled!)

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Boxing Day

Everton v Burnley

Thursday 26th December 2019

I got to go to the Burnley game on Boxing day with my Uncle Mike and Brandon as my Uncle Ray couldn't go. It's been a while since I've been to see Everton. I've still yet to see them lose so was hoping my luck was still going strong and with Carlo Ancelotti's first game as manager it was going to be a good game!

I only got asked on Christmas day if I wanted to go to the match and already said I was going to bake scones to take to Tracy's and make waffle mix as she has a waffle iron. I had to get up early to make sure they were all done before going to the match. I got picked up at 1pm as kick off was at 3pm.

The weather wasn't great it was that horrible drizzle where you just get wet. Because my little cousin Brandon has a season ticket my Uncle Ray and Mike have moved to sit in the family enclosure. They used to sit in the Lower Gwladys Street end but there's just too much swearing there. These seats are good dead close can see all the players. You just can't see the right corner flag as we were sat closer to the left side. Less shelter being low down and we did pretty wet.

At the start the atmosphere was a bit quiet as people weren't sure of the new manager but it did pick up. My luck continued as we won 1-0! Clearly I need to get a season ticket because if they win or draw every time I go to see them could actually win the league... Don't think I could do that every week though if it's raining. It's alright in the summer when it's dry but sitting in the cold and rain definitely isn't for me! I do love going to the match but being wet is a no.

Everton has just beat Newcastle 2-1! Good start for Ancelotti, just need to keep this up for the rest of the season.

After the match we went to Tracy's as she was doing a gathering at hers.

There was a lot more food than this but was too busy eating it to take a photo of it!

So annoyed this was the first batch which also happened to be the biggest but was over baked!

The next two turned out so much better. We had so much food that we didn't even end up making waffles so I'm going back to Tracy's on Saturday to make them as I left the mix in hers.

I have a new favourite board game now - The Logo Board Game. Me and Chris were against Tracy, Laura and Brandon and we smashed them. But then wasn't as good with Articulate. Shouldn't have stayed with Chris for that... 

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We're up all night to luckyyy

Absolutely obsessed with song & I think everyone else is too! It's number 1 for the 3rd week now in the UK Top 40! I think it'll be a while before they'll be knocked off the top spot. Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams is just an amazing collaboration! Pharrell just doesn't age he celebrated his 40th birthday last month but just looks about 20, I think we all need to have whatever he's having!

Leather Jacket - Matalan

Hoodie - Nike

Top - Zara Sale

Skirt - Internacionale Kids

Shoes - Anchor Print Converse T.K.Maxx

This was today's outfit, I haven't done a post in a while as I'm just so stressed out with uni! I've got a 2,500 interview data analysis to do which I gave myself today as the deadline but I've clearly failed it as I've only done 2 lines... But I handed in my gender essay today which is worth the same, same amount of words & the same deadline but for a different module so at least that's out the way. But I still have 2 exams to revise for next Monday & next Thursday which I haven't even had the chance to even properly think about! I can't wait till next Thursday so I can have a rest & 4 months of basically nothing!

I just hate uni so much but dreading next year so much as it is just going to be even worse! :(

Uni really isn't worth the money especially the pain it's putting me through!

Everton v West Ham United

As you will know I'm an Evertonian & I was lucky enough to go to the last home game of the season yesterday which also was David Moyes' last home game in charge of Everton after 11 years! It was also our captain Phil Neville's last home game even though he didn't play as he's injured. 

One of my uncle's who has a season ticket is ill so I got to go! Everton beat West Ham 2-0

2 goals by Kevin Mirallas which was the perfect send off for the manger on his last home game! 

It was pretty emotional as he's a great manager & will be sadly missed. He might not have won us anything but he has been a good manger. He got a guard of honour at the end of the match as well as Phil Neville & my favourite ever Everton play Tim Cahill who left last season to play for the New York Red Bulls travelled 7000 miles to say goodbye to the manager & captain which shows how much Moyes will be missed! It did almost bring a tear to my eye, but there was plenty of tears in the stadium which was full. 

Whoever is the next manager just won't be same! But all the best to Moyes who is going to be Manchester United's new manager after Sir Alex Ferguson has decided to retire after 26 successful years. It was be hard for him to follow in his footsteps but I'm sure he'll do a great job in his own way!

Banana, Walnut & Sultana Cake

On Saturday I baked a Banana, Walnut & Sultana cake, to relieve stress, you can tell where uni is on my list of priorities...

I followed this recipe it is meant to be a bread but I don't have a bread tin so I turned it into a cake & added some sultanas. As you can tell from my baking I do like to put sultanas in everything... It was nice it think it's quite dry even though it was a pretty wet mixture before it went in the oven & I think I put more banana than what the recipe states as it doesn't specify what size bananas... 

Julie

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