I have too many shoes

It's official, I am only six months away from my fortieth birthday milestone.  To take comfort during this upsetting time I bought some cupcakes from my local shop Cupcake . Deciding whether or not to celebrate this milestone is an easy decision, you can't beat Father Time, you just have to join him and party.  So I'm busy planning a couple of events to mark the occasion and embrace my fourth decade! God, that sounds horrid.  I think the ageing process is relative, no one really looks their age or needs to act their age these days.  People leave their childhood homes later, marriage is no longer something to be achieved before you're thirty and with the fabulous facial serums, you can keep ageing at bay.  To be honest I think forty is the new thirty! I'm no longer setting myself timescales to achieve things by a certain time.  In the past few years I've realised that life just sometimes throws you a curve ball and you never follow a truly straight pat...

Today, I escaped the house renovations for a couple of hours for a catch-up with one of my best friends Jo. After a week of living in dust, dealing with bored two Jack Russells and being absolutely freezing due to cold weather, I was definitely in need of a a coffee and a cupcake! Whilst we don't have the luxury of living in a city where you can pop to either the Hummingbird or Magnolia Bakeries (though just sometimes being a city girl would be fabulous), Blackpool does have a good cupcake cafe - cupcake -that fully satisfies our Carrie Bradshaw or Victory Ford cupcake cravings. I have to admit that I've got a slight addiction to cupcakes but try to limit myself to just an occasional visit to Cupcake. Freshly baked cupcakes are in a class of their own and shop-bought, over-produced cakes don't really cut the mustard, if you know what I mean! As per usual, Vikki (owner and baker of Cupcake) did us proud with a variety of cupcakes to choose from. Today I went for a coo...