Kilpatrick Oysters

This is the best little starter to a meal or for a light dinner.  Kilpatrick Oysters.  So easy to do you will be coming back for more.

What you will need:

  * 12 of your finest oysters - shucked

*  1 cup of rock salt

* 2 tablespoons of Worcestershire Sauce

* 135g rindless bacon - diced

* 1 tablespoon parsley leaves chopped

&

a few wedges of lemon

Pre-heat your grill to a medium heat.  While it's warming up get a large sized plate so that it's able to fit all of your oysters.  Place a thick layer of rock salt on the plate (if your worried about putting your dish under the grill use a heat proof tray)  then arrange the oysters in their half shells on top of the rock salt.

Sprinkle the oysters with what has to be my fave, Worcestershire Sauce and top with the finely chopped bacon.  I lightly grilled mine before, then diced into little cubes and popped back under the grill for the remaining 6 - 8 minuets until it starts to crisp.

Once done, sprinkle with parsley and serve with lemon and voila your Kilpatrick Oysters are ready for devouring. 

Old News, New Purchase - Topshop Allegras

I was one of the unlucky ones to miss out on the Topshop Allegra bandwagon.  I had been eyeing them up for ages online and with a bit of a hefty price tag it kind of put me off.  Then one pay day a wave of spontaneity came over me & I thought this could be my one splurge from the UK and by the time I hopped on there to get myself these little beauties, to my dismay they had sold out!

First world problem I know but I was slightly devastated.  Especially as our seasons are back to front from the UK so I shop for winter clothes in our summer so I am stocked up with UK goodies by the time it's our winter.  If that makes sense.
I know a lot of you will think it's silly of me to keep purchasing clothes from the UK but if you came here and saw just how expensive everything is, especially clothing, you would be doing exactly the same.

So every few days like a little desperado I would check to see if they back in stock and you guessed it....SOLD OUT. NOT AVAILABLE.  Weep!
Ebay was ridiculous and not even worth looking at.
On the Youtube and Twitter grapevine I heard about this website that does amazing dupe Allegras. It's called Chockers Shoes.  They were reduced and I thought why not, they look near identical so I purchased and was a content little bunny.

On the off chance the other day I was back snooping on the Topshop site at their boots and in the sales and what popped up.....
Allegras.
Limited sizes left.
I'm a size 39 but after reading lost of reviews on them I clicked for 40's and ordered there and then without a moments hesitation. And the best part.....they were reduced from 75 pounds down to 35 pounds!  YES 35 pounds.

I am now the proud owner of Allegras and dupe Allegras (which I will have to give to a friend or someone)  Anyone who is looking to get the dupes, they are fab.  Softer than the Topshop ones and the heel is I about half a cm shorter. If you are after the real deals, keep checking the site they might pop back up.

This little beauties are going to be perfect for the incoming autumn and all the rain we are suppose to be getting. Boo!

To All My Followers

As I'm sure you are all aware there as been a lot of hype the past few months about the GFC - Google Friend Connect. Google have decided to do away with this handy little tool which is a big inconvenience for followers of blogs.
This now means that all my beautiful followers who are displayed nicely on my blog page now have to find other means of following me and all your other fellow bloggers who you follow through this tool (see image below of GFC)

Bye GFC

Now there are plenty of other ways to follow blogs.  I personally find BLOGLOVIN one of the easiest ways to follow all your favourite bloggers and keep up to date with everyones posts.  Once you have completed reading it, click 'mark as read' and it will remove it from the list and leave other posts waiting for you to delve into.

You can follow others and me on Twitter @JessMHeath which I keep updated daily with posts, a silly amount of photos and also indicate when a new blog post is up.

Or you can subscribe and follow me via e-mail.  It's totally up to you.  I'm going to be taking a look at Hello Cotton which is another fun, pretty blog site where you can follow new and old bloggers of yours and that might be making the move there also.
I'm going to scope it out and will keep you posted if I do.

Hopefully see you on the other side and so long GFC!

Kindle Touch

For Valentine's Day this year I was lucky enough to get the super skinny mini Kindle Touch.  Now anyone and everyone in my family and friends can tell you that I never use to be a big reader, until the last year or so I've really been really getting into books.  I'm a kind of light n' easy reader at the moment and now I have my Kindle it's great for storing all my future books I want to read.

I finished a month or so ago Russell Brand's first book, My Booky Wook which is hilarious.  An easy read and an insight into this turbulent life from a young boy up until his MTV days.  I did also purchase his second book which I am storing for a future beach read.
Now I am currently reading The Hunger Games.  I've heard such good things about this book series and am quickly trying to read it before it comes out in the movies.  So far so good and I'm hooked.

This is the perfect gift for adults and children.  If you are an avid book worm and get through books like no tomorrow this is the thing for you.  You can store endless amounts of books, newspapers and magazines on there and it's slim compact size is superb for your commute to work, slipping into your handbag and it's no glare screen is great for beach reading.

People in Australia can get it from the American Amazon site from as little as $99 with built in Wifi or this one from the UK Amazon site for 89 pounds.

If anyone has any book recommendations I'd love to hear them.

Happy Reading!

Weekend Away

For Christmas my boyfriend really wanted a tent.  For ages he has been wanting to go camping so I treated him to a nice four man tent.  With this, this meant we had to go camping.  I use to love camping, it's one of those great British traditions but baring in mind the last time I went was when I was about seventeen to a 18-30 campsite in Newquay, Cornwall.  This was an experience in it's own and certainly not resembling camping when I was a little girl where me and my brothers use to roast marshmallows over a crackling fire, tell ghost stories and wake up in the morning to the smell of crisp crackling bacon.

The weather this weekend was phenomenal, a typical Sydney summers day 29C, so we decided to head north to the Central Coast and Port Stephens.
A little factoid for you, Port Stephens is renowned for it's massive sand dune that's 1km wide and 34k in length.  It's so long you can't see the end...check out the panoramic photo below.

Morning view

It was a great weekend away getting back to nature and relaxing on some of Australia's best beaches.

I'm sorry I've been a bit M.I.A on the blogging front due to writers/bloggers block and being super busy.  I'm hoping to get back into it this week with regular posts.  I have missed the blogging world.

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Aveeno Eye Illuminator

I have a big love/hate relationship when it comes to eye creams.  I'll use them religiously for a few weeks/months then feel a bit meh about the whole thing and that it's not doing anything.  Now I am back in the 'let's try another one' phase.  The other day I stumbled across Aveeno's Eye Illuminator.  I must admit I always see their products in the store but have never purchased any, partly due to the price being a little ridiculous.  

Anyway, the skin under your eyes is so delicate and precious that you need to take such great care with it when moisturising and taking off your make-up.  If you pull and tug under there in a good few years the skin will loosen and you will have saggy bags under your eyes.  No-one wants that.

All it needs is a bit of TLC and a spring back into life.

You can use this in the morning before you apply your make-up and at night when going to sleep.  It suppose to reduce dark circles around your eyes and give it a natural radiance and even out your skin tone under your eyes with the added help from Mr Vitamin B.

I've only used it once (last night) so need to give it a bit more of a road test, but the cream is so chilled once applied which really soothes your skin and does appear to soften and even the skin tone.   

The packaging is nice and compact so can easily fit into any handbag or make-up for all those busy on the go girlies.

This get's a big thumbs up from me and you only need to use a small amount ever time, which means it will last and you can then kind of justify the price.