Three Bad Mice: countryside

My weekends of late have either been laden with crazy drunkenness and late nights or work and absolutely no play. So last weekend myself, Mini and our gorgeous little pal Kim decided to get the hell out of the city and spend some much needed time resting up in the country - Flaunden in Hertfordshire to be exact. It all started on Saturday evening when we raced to Waitrose to pick up our favourite foods for an indulgent dinner and Sunday morning brekkie ahead.

We finally arrived at Elm cottage when dusk was setting in...

We settled in, got the fire going and prepared our scrumptious dinner - homemade lasagne with lashings of white sauce, tasty beef and mozzarella...

Prepped, ready and waiting we decided to wrap up warm, torch in hand and head to the local pub, The Bricklayers Arms for a bottle of well deserved wine.

An hour later we zig zagged back up the pitch black country lane on our tipsy toes, chattering excitably as we went whilst on the look out for Orion's Belt of stars in the sky!

Ten minutes later, we were back in our safe, cosy little cottage and were ready to well and truly demolish our pre-prepared supper...

Next came the Champs... Kim had snapped up this little bottle of goodness from The Modest Merchant on her way to the cottage. A gorgeous independent wine outfit that offers up carefully selected wines from the major wine regions of the world. Each bottle of plonk comes with a thoughtful narrative card that talks you through the wine, where it comes from and why it's so special. Lovely touch...

And to finish us off, in true 3BadMice style, we indulged in a cheese board and settled in for an evening of Christmas films and snoozing. Heaven!

The next day, we were up bright and early preparing yet more delish grub! This time sourdough, scrambled Clarence Court eggs (only the best will do), parma ham and parmesan shavings with a steaming pot of tea and freshly brewed coffee...

Next on the agenda? Sitting around in cosy PJs of course! Reading the weekend supplements, sipping more tea whilst talking make-up, boys and plans for 2015. Hours passed by without us even noticing - love these girls.

To top off our blissful weekend, we took ourselves off for a blustery walk...

The Perfect weekend - only problem is, I now want to do exactly the same EVERY weekend! Kimmy - can we, can we???

HK mouse is once again 5995 miles away and the two babies are left teeth chattering and all alone in London Towers - boo hoo...

We're all starting to get back to the normality of not eating out every night, working late and feeling the gym guilt but we're now not so sure that normality's for us! We much preferred eating and drinking non stop and generally being a trio of sister social butterflies!

When we haven't been weeping over being minus a Mouse, this week the Mice have mostly been...

Wishing with all our might that we were back in the country wearing gingham quilted jackets and Wellingtons once again! At the end of two manic weeks of sister fun in London, we sought a little R&R at our childhood escape in Devon - Topsham Cottage. We took Friday off work to cut the week short and drag the weekend out, jumped aboard the Devon Express (well a three hour train) and off to the countryside we chugged!

After the initial fish out of water arrival... think arriving at the local pub in leather shorts and Isabel Marant boots... we donned every warm piece of clothing we'd packed and had an amazing country Mouse adventure!

As always, our time away pretty much involved eating as much as humanly possible, drinking gallons of red wine, huddled around a roaring fire and of course we snapped all our goings on to share in a mighty blog post!

Here's what we got up to...

Morning cuppa to get the day going...