Flavour Of The Month (FOTM) is our nod to old-school blogging days. We’re sharing a taste – a ‘flavour’ if you will – of what’s happened in the month just gone.
Why do we do this?
There are a few reasons actually. First and foremost, we like to be able to google our lives. All too often, Christina has asked me when we did something and all I’ve had to do is search Mr & Mrs.
But we also love writing about things that either don’t really fit anywhere else or that isn’t quite a big enough story to have its own stand-alone article.
Best of all, we love sharing important moments of our lives here, so you get a real flavour of what’s happening with us in these posts.
Happy New Year, everyone! As my sister says to me each birthday, who’d have thought we’d make it this far! I know for a lot of people, 2013 was a rough year. We both hope 2014 is a much better year for you. Our 2013 was pretty good. Lots of travel, MrAndMrsRomance.com going well, both … Read more
Merry Christmas, everyone! We hope you’ve had a wonderful Christmas week! We certainly have and it’s been so relaxing, we wonder how we’ll ever get back into the swing of things in 2014. I also wonder what I’ve done to deserve my own personal rain cloud. It’s two days before Christmas Day and it’s gloomy, … Read more
What with Mr & Mrs Romance turning one last week, Mrs Romance celebrating her birthday this week and Jesus blowing out 2013 candles next week, the build-up to the year’s end is going full steam ahead. We start off the week with a beautiful Monday morning; perfect blue skies, warm winds and Sydney lookin’ pretty … Read more
Not long now till this very bridge will be exploding with millions of dollars worth of fireworks. I really can’t believe where this year’s gone… but it’s been a pretty good one, all in all. Caroline Childerley of the newly established but already much-loved site The Gin Queen has put us onto this new gin: Four … Read more
As you can see the Christmas tree has gone up! We celebrate our achievement with a pink fizz champagne cocktail – here’s recipe – and congratulate ourselves on a job half done! Then Mrs Romance sets about the task of decorating the Christmas tree. I have learnt that this is a one-woman job and I merely … Read more
Sydney’s been in a strange old mood recently. It hasn’t been the build up to summer we’re used to here. Low temperatures one day, hot the next, raining the next, hail and thunder storms the next… will summer ever get here? That’s what I want to know. Anyway, as a quick addendum to last week, I … Read more
Rain is pelting the windows and Sydney looks unseasonably glum. It feels a bit ironic as I work on our next post about Australian beach life and how to fit in with the locals. We start getting cabin fever so we make a mad dash for the nearest cafe and some perspective. I don’t find any … Read more
The only way to start off the week – to start off most things actually – is with a good coffee.We try the newest place round the corner – the Paramount Coffee Project‘s coffee hits the spot nicely. The coffee’s so good, we decide brunch is in order. Mrs Romance has the salmon, black quinoa … Read more
So here we are. The final leg of our journey. We’re in Essex with Mum and Dad, and a welcome plate of good ol’ fish ‘n’ chips – just the way we remember them. Delicious! We take a trip around Colchester, following the tourist trail. The new multi-million pound art centre is a bit of a … Read more
Here we are in sunny London. That’s right, you heard correctly! Sunny! Who’d have guessed it? We check in to our High Street Kensington hotel, courtesy of our friends at Creative Holidays (thanks, guys!) and head out to explore the Big Smoke. Round the corner, we find this. Yes, under all those flowers is a … Read more