Brown Sugar

Today me and Finn went out for lunch with his Granma, we went to a cafe I've been wanting to try in Long Stratton called Brown Sugar. Brown Sugar is touted as 'A cosy place to meet up with friends and family' so I therefore thought it would be quite child friendly, boy was I wrong. I felt quite uncomfortable with a baby in there from the word go so should of really gone else where but thought we'd give it a go.

We had to wait about 5mins for a table of which there was about 8 small tables in a side bit of the cafe and a section with a sofa and bar stools. Being carb free at the moment I ordered there steak mince chilli with jacket potato and salad, minus the potato and Finn's Granma had a smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwich. The coffees were very good I must admit, lovely proper coffee. I was a bit miffed about being charged full price for my meal as I didn't have the potato but I guess they have to turn a profit.

The food arrived slowly for it being such a simple order, mine was very tasty but Finn's Granma was a bit disappointed with the bread in her sandwich, with there being an amazing bakery in Long Stratton we had hoped the bread would of been from there, clearly it wasn't. Also I noticed they we're selling bacon, which I thought would be from one of the great local butchers, it wasn't it, was from the EU. I mean I'm not one to go all out and buy organic but I do support my local village by getting my meat and eggs from the local butchers and our veg from the farm shop so that was a bit disappointing, didn't really see why they were selling it to be honest.

Changing facilities, well there wasn't any, there was one small cramped toilet which was a bit unclean. I had no choice to change Finn on the on the floor, now I do know that not all small cafes can cater for baby changing and this obviously isn't there market but I think for a coffee shop in a largish village which has regular mum and baby meets and the local sure start centre that they could do a great trade in coffee and cake for yummy mummies with bambino's.

We will be trying the 'Tree House' cafe next time which looked much more inviting and I wish we had of gone there instead this time.

Love Mel & Finn xx

Coffee & Cake

Another day another coffee. Today I met the other yummy mummies from the NCT group that I should have gone to, had I not been admitted to hospital at 32 weeks! One of the mummies is very poorly in hospital at the moment so I wish her well and hope she is on the mend soon.

Today we met at Zest @ House of Frasier. It was a nice bright cafe looking out over the parade of shops in the mall. We were able to get a bench of sofa's and apart from blocking a poor man in we were able to park all the buggies up. I do like cafe's that act as if its no trouble to bring your drinks over to you, rather than the ones that let you struggle with the pushchair and a tray of hot drinks so major bonus points there for Zest. Some of the mummies had lunch which looked lovely too.The changing facilities were very good, although there was only one baby changing room I imagine there are more on the other floors. Luckily this one had a toilet in too, which I always think is a must! In the main Mall there is an open baby changing room with a couple of changers, however the toilet door opens in wards so you can't take the pushchair in there, which seems pretty pointless to me, who's going to leave the baby in the pushchair on the other side of the door.

Had I of been a good blogger I would of taken a photo, I shall do this from now on.

All of the babies are so much more alert now as the weeks go on, Finn is now 12 weeks corrected and the other babies vary from I believe nearly 8 weeks to 12 weeks so it's nice to see that Finn is on par with the oldest baby.

I've fallen off the diet wagon today, oops, straight back on it tomorrow though as it's really working and I'm actually enjoying it so much, I'll blog about it when I've lost a stone.

Just noticed Britain's & Ireland's Next Top Model is on, I'm hoping for a Juste and Jade final, got to love a bit of trashy t.v.

Love mel & Finn xxx

Coffee days

I spent the day doing what I do best..... hanging out in coffee shops with other yummy mummies!

I like to try a different coffee shop each time, though Starbucks is my most favourite place ever.

Today we went to Marks and Spencers new cafe, M&S in Norwich have just had the biggest redesign in M&S history. It is very nice, not a store I frequent really so can't really comment on it! The cafe itself was lovely and bright, very busy and service was slow but was with a smile. The cakes, oh my, they looked amazing! Baby changing facilites are good, very clean, one private changing room (could of done with a toilet in it really, I mean what are you meant to do if you're on your own?!) and lots of changing stations in the main ladies toilets.

Sorry for such a boring post!

I shall leave you with a pic of my cutie pie this morning.

Love Mel & Finn xx