Easter at Lush!! The Immaculate Eggception

I bought this from Lush cosmetics on the High Street. The beauty of buying from the shop is I can get to smell before I purchase.  This has three different essential oils combining to make a gorgeous scent for the bath - grapefruit, lemon and vanilla.  Do these oils combine to  give a chocolatey fragrance?  Personally I don't think so but with such a gorgeous smell I don't care about that.  Pure luxury is more all important where relaxation in the bath is concerned.  A surprise element is are you going to find an easter bunny or an easter chick in the egg!!  As you can see I found the easter bunny.  All I  need now is a chocolate face mask and one of these three pieces of the bath bomb in my bath for total 'me' time

weekend in Northampton

Took a trip to Northampton at the weekend and stayed at the Park Inn by Radisson hotel.  Nice hotel, great breakfast by why oh why does the health spa close at 7pm.  That aside, we went to visit 78, Derngate.  A house commissoned to Charles Rennie Mackintosh to decorate it in the modern style of the times in the 1920s,  Art deco...  Awesome design, so inspiring.  Had to wear these plasticy slippers over our shoes to protect the floors.  The house itself was a Georgian, terrace spread over 4 floors.  http://www.78derngate.org.uk/. to read about this fascinating slice of history from a now recognised, important designer of his time.

 It was a fun weekend apart from the fact  it was out of season there was not much to do but hey, there are some super shops there and not too crowded, even on a saturday afternoon.