Menna Van Praag's Blog, page 17
August 5, 2014
I love cake. I love summer. I love this summer cake of ho...
I love cake. I love summer. I love this summer cake of hollyhocks & bees – so beautiful!
August 3, 2014
Saw Shakespeare in Love – the play – yesterday with the l...
Saw Shakespeare in Love – the play – yesterday with the lovely Natasha. We ADORED it!! Highly recommend! Esp if you loved the film & frankly, if you didn’t, then whaaaat?! 
July 31, 2014
More food – very posh sticky toffee pudding – one of my f...
More food – very posh sticky toffee pudding – one of my favs! At the lovely author event organised by Rainy Day books where I met the lovely Lucy Atkins – look out for her new book The Missing One, it’s beautiful & amazing!
July 30, 2014
Oh, Happy Day! My very own desk in our tiny apartment I...
Oh, Happy Day! My very own desk in our tiny apartment I wrote my other books on the kitchen table, the sofa, in bed – this is luxury indeed!
July 28, 2014
The Duke & Duchess of Cambridgeshire created from jelly b...
The Duke & Duchess of Cambridgeshire created from jelly beans in Mr Simms – spotted while walking down King’s Parade yesterday, during one of my frequent visits to said sweet shop
July 27, 2014
Sitting outside King’s College eating almond & hazelnut i...
Sitting outside King’s College eating almond & hazelnut ice cream 
A literary dinner with the gorgeous people from @rainyday...
A literary dinner with the gorgeous people from @rainydaybooks in Oxford – what a wonderful night!
July 23, 2014
My little reader on our camping trip! One night we called...
My little reader on our camping trip! One night we called him for dinner & he said “no food, I reading.” Of course he can’t read yet, but I couldn’t have been more proud!
July 21, 2014
One of my new fav places! The Hours Cafe & Bookshop – bui...
One of my new fav places! The Hours Cafe & Bookshop – built in 1643, with many beautiful books, delicious homemade cakes & gorgeous staff – I WISH it was my local but I’ll be returning soon!
July 20, 2014
Can you see the elephants? We saw them in Wales – so cute...
Can you see the elephants? We saw them in Wales – so cute! I hope you all had a lovely Sunday. Today I had the BEST massage of my life! Thanks to my AMAZING sister, Idilia de sa Barreto. I’d still been feeling pretty rotten with the cough etc, but her healing hands brought much happiness
