Lots to peruse again this week, including loads of recipes – get your bake on!
Lifestyle
une semaine à Paris – Violet Key
Why I’m staying pale all summer long – Hello Giggles
Wonder Woman is TOTALLY a feminist – Hello Giggles
The charity shop challenge – Paper Crowned
Blogging
Learn to code – Melrosa Avenue
Using custom redirects on Blogger – xomisse
Why has Google cast me into oblivion? – BBC News
Film
The best movie-making cliques on the block – Hello Giggles
Books
Quentin Blake at the House of Illustration – in pictures – The Guardian
Post-reading: The Collective – Bookswept
Book Review: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Life of Kitty
Bookshelf additions – Gingerly Pale
Books About Town
The Book Blogger Tag – stasialikescakes
Ready Player One – Wrapped Up in Rainbows
Recipes
Chicken and chorizo pie – Colours and Carousels
Pineapple fried rice pizza – A Beautiful Mess
Chicken with mushrooms and thyme – Domestic Sluttery
Rhubarb and custard muffins – elevatormusik
Lavender blueberry muffins – A Beautiful Mess
Cheesecake brownie – A Diary of Lovely
Crafting
Build a mini horse bookshelf – A Beautiful Mess
Foxy needle book – Me, Bookshelf and I
Cornwall
St Ives’ Blas Burgerworks named as top burger restaurant in UK by TripAdvisor – The Cornishman
Paradise Park welcomes red panda cub twins for the second year – The Guardian
My week in photos
1. We had the week off and it involved rather a lot of eating out! This was a yummy quiche and salad from the M&S cafe in Hayle
2. We also met up with a friend I hadn’t seen in four years (and got to meet her fiance and three gorgeous pooches) and went to the Blue Bar in Porthtowan. Hot chocolate was rather immense
3. Sitting out on the decking in the evening is rather lovely. You wouldn’t think this was a glass of lemonade – the swizzle stick makes all the difference, right?!
4. And we went on a road trip with the pooch. Look out for Prussia Cove piccies next week
Want, need, wear, read
Want: This Alice in Wonderland brooch from The Literary Emporium is the sweetest thing! I think I even love it more than the Wizard of Oz one. Just…
Need: We have four white dining chairs and I’d love a flash of colour. Dunelm Mill are doing pairs of chair for £39.99 in lime green, purple, red, black and white. Of course, we could just stick with the plan to just paint ours
Wear: Peacocks are having a sale so you can now get this cute tea dress for just £12.80!
Read: I’m a sucker for books that have won prizes and Eimear McBride has just won the Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novelists for her book A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Will be giving that a go soon
A Cornish Geek 