The super exciting news this week is that Cut Out + Keep has signed with IndieClick advertising agency. We’ve wanted to work with them for a while, but they don’t take on many websites, and now we’re finally big enough! This means that IndieClick will deal with all the selling of our advertising space, leaving me with time to work on producing awesome content. We signed the papers over pancakes at Plan 9.

On Monday, Emma, Ben, Tom and I went for dinner at Yo! Sushi, followed up with drinks at a pub where the bar was covered in creepy clown dolls. On Tuesday, we headed through to Ealing for a pub quiz and came 2nd (thanks to Lynz being super smart) and won a round of  8 drinks for the table. We also played Consequences, which I had never played before and it was so funny. Here are some of the stories which were written about me:

• Freddie Mercury met Cat in Holland Park. He said “what’s a Shawshank Redemption” and she said “there is a minor delay on the central line due to a signal failure at Shepherd’s Bush”, then they won Euromillions.
• Limmy met Cat at a stabbing in Wilsden Junction. He said “how do you like your eggs in the morning?” and she said “I’m sorry to inform you of your wife’s death…”, and then yet more ants were imported – which gave all the anteaters something to do.
• Mr Dave Stewart Esq met Cat in Mexico, just above the border. He said “don’t! stop! me… noooow…!” and she said “when you think about it, Italy does kind of look like a boot, when viewed from space of course”, and then they went to Euro Disney and poked Mickey Mouse.

Emma and Raven have adopted two of our chili plant shoots, and yesterday morning, we went outside to be surprised by how much one of the shoots had grown over night.

It was such a hot day, so we met up with Lynsey and Claire and went for a picnic on Primrose Hill. We drank wine, posh-person spotted and got a little sunburnt.

Afterwards we headed back to the Mews, where Raven joined us and we brought the furniture outside to lounge on. Just before it got dark, the electricity men started knocking on the doors to tell us our power was going to be shut off for the next four hours.

Feeling defeated, we headed to Ealing with Lynsey for dinner and a game of Monopoly, where I was well and truly beaten.

Had an early start this morning and headed for brunch at Plan 9, where I had my favorite, a museli sundae.

The rest of the day was filled up with Lynsey’s cocktail party in Ealing. We headed over with Emma, Raven and Tony. She had a huge house, lovely flatmates and a very cute hedgehog cake.

We felt rather guilty after slaughtering it. We all became very sleepy after several hours of gin and tonic, so headed back to Paddington…

where Raven found love on the way home. Sweet dreams xoxo

Today we went on an impromptu trip to Ealing Broadway, where Tom’s Dad was born. But, not before picking up some delicious macaroons from Laduree. The licorice and pistachio ones are sooooooo good.

The tube driver let me stand in his booth while going through a tunnel, it was a bit creepy and dark up front, but kind of cosy too.

We went for a drink in a pub that had a wall covered in records, which reminded me of Tom’s old bedroom (though that was covered in floppy disks) and Avalancherecord store in Edinburgh.