Cat Morley

Cat Morley

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19/05

 
 


 

We found the most amazing lighting shop inside a church in Newington today.


 
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It was the perfect place for taking photos and we managed to find the lighting fixtures we needed to make our fox lamp.


 
Tom's dream drum kit!


 

Tom spotted his dream sparkly blue drum kit in the window of a music shop.


 


 

Our next stop was Anteaques, an antique and tea shop which smelled amazing.


 
Rose tea, chocolate olives & antiques!


 


 

We shared a green tea & almond brioche bun and rose petal tea which were both delicious.


 
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It felt like the type of place that was designed for taking Instagram photos. I was in heaven!


 


 

By a really crazy coincidence, they had chocolate olives, which I had discovered once on holiday and was telling Tom about hours before. One of the waiters told me that they imported them from France and it was the only place that sold them.


 
Tom trying on a Ryan Gosling style jacket


 

Tom tried on a Ryan Gosling style biker jacket in Armstrongs and kind of suited it.


 


 

We stopped for a drink at the Earl Of Marchmont on the way home and it was finally warm enough to sit at a table outside and people watch.


 
Pretending to be in Paris by sitting outside with a French martini


 

I pretended I was at a cafe in Paris as I sipped on my French Martini.


 
Finally hacked our fox chandelier in to a lamp and it looks so awesome!


 

Tom hacked together our fox chandelier when we got home and it looked so good when it was lit up.



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We went for dinner at the Caley Sample Rooms this evening. It's a cool pub that looks like a barn with all kinds of beer on tap.


 


 

I had risotto, with a poached egg on top, washed down with a bottle of Fruili. It was delicious and we'd have stayed for dessert if we weren't running late.


 


 

Kenny was hosting this year's Eurovision Song Contest Party, so we headed around to his flat, armed with bags of pick 'n' mix and the most appropriate wine we could find from the new hipster beer shop - it even had a pink cork!


 
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We made up rules for own Eurovision drinking game which involved taking a shot of a "domesticated home brew spirit" every time a musician dropped to their knees, played air guitar or an announcer tried to make a joke that nobody could understand.


 


 

We left Kenny's around 2am after helping Laura leave inspirational post-it notes and drawings for him to find around his apartment.



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Pretty day to be by the sea


 

It was a lovely sunny day today and Mum brought Nana through for a visit.


 
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Pretty day to be by the sea


 

We started off with a coffee at Nana's favourite pub, the Old Chain Pier where we had an amazing view over the Forth.


 


 

Afterwards we went for Afternoon Tea at the Famous Peacock Inn which I'd got a offer for on Groupon.


 
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We were served Prosecco, sandwiches, scones and all kinds of delicious cakes.


 


 

It was delicious and we were left feeling a little tipsy afterwards which may or may not have been unfortunate timing as we had to rush back for a surprise interview with the Daily Mail.


 


 

It was a pretty intense interview with questions we'd never been asked before but I think that's just a sign of an excellent journalist. We rewarded ourselves with an amaretto & cinnamon milkshake at the Chocolate Tree afterwards.



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Yay, check out page 7 of the Edinburgh
Evening News!


 

There was an article about us in the Edinburgh Evening News today and we had to spend the whole day sneaking past people reading the paper in the street. You can read the whole article on The Scotsman website but ignore the bit about me being a wannabe Kirstie Allsopp.

The rest of the day turned out to be crazily busy, starting with breakfast at Piecebox with Mum & Dad. I then had to rush home in time for a phone interview with DC Thomson.


 


 

Tom was then booked in for a haircut at Ruffians, so I played on their iPads while I waited for him.


 


 

We took a walk along the Water Of Leith afterwards which was so pretty.


 


 


 

We stopped for coffee and cake at Peter's Yard when we reached Stockbridge.


 
We were also in The Reader today, the newspaper of our adopted second hometown, Omaha! http://www.thereader.com/comments/cut_out_keep/


 

We checked The Reader, the newspaper for our adopted hometown of Omaha to see another article about us on their website and in their paper. The journalist is going to send me a few copies to show our Grannies so I'll scan them for my blog too.


 
Banging things!


 

Tom had a drumming lesson with the drummer from Arab Strap last week, who was really impressed with him and though it was something he should persue, so we booked out a practise room with a drum kit at Banana Row.


 
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The room felt a lot like the teenage bedroom we never had, complete with a hanging of the star signs on the wall.


 

It was lots of fun banging things really loudly for an hour but we were soon interrupted with a phone call asking if a Daily Mail photographer could meet us at our house.


 


 

We rushed home just in time to tidy up and get dressed for the photo shoot. We were all dressed up anyway, so we decided to take ourselves out for dinner afterwards.


 


 


 

We ended up at Blackbird which serves the best cocktails in town.


 
Treating ourselves to cocktails in mason jars after a long day on the press junket


 

I had a strawberry and rosemary smash which was served in an awesome mason jar. I was later told they're known as hillbilly wine glasses and made by glueing a mason jar to a candlestick. I need to make a set!


 
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I also had mushrooms on toast with a side of mac n cheese and a sherbet martini for dessert.



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15/05

Mud

 
 


 

Mum & Dad came through after work and we took them for bento at YummyTori.


 


 

I was so proud of them when they took out their cameras to take photos of their food. I feel like I've been a good influence.


 


 

The cocktails and mocktails at YummyTori are really really good. I tried the passionfruit ice tea this time which delicious.


 


 

There was a double rainbow in the sky as we walked to the cinema to see Mud. It was a pretty good film and reinforced my dream to have a houseboat in a swamp one day.



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