• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Bloglovin
    • E-mail
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
I’m not the best at a group selfie it seems!! 🤣🤣

Happy Christmas!!
Did you know I do balloons? Made this witch for Did you know I do balloons? 

Made this witch for my mums porch for Halloween. 

Find all my balloon creations on my business account @bestdayeverballoonsuk 

#balloons #balloondecor #balloonwitch
Halloween started early at tennis yesterday! #co Halloween started early at tennis yesterday! 

#cousins #cousinlove #cousingoals #tennis #tennislessons #lta #halloween #halloweencostume
Spent a lovely afternoon at @thepumpkinpatchhighto Spent a lovely afternoon at @thepumpkinpatchhightown on Sunday

#pumpkin #pumpkinpicking #pumpkinpatch #familyfun #sundayfunday
All the toys and she just wants to sit in a box! All the toys and she just wants to sit in a box!
Week two technical done. Garibaldis. Not any of th Week two technical done. Garibaldis. Not any of the variety of other names I’ve called them. Don’t know why I can’t remember the name of them. 

#gbbo #gbbobakealong #gbbotechnicalchallenge #garibaldi #prueleith
I’m a few weeks behind so need to get my skates I’m a few weeks behind so need to get my skates on but I decided to follow along the technicals on this years gbbo. So may I present week one - red velvet cake! 

#gbbo #redvelvetcake #gbbotechnicalchallenge #gbbo2022 #paulhollywood #paulhollywoodrecipe
Putting her make up on with me the other night 🙈
Then she came home and Roars stole her face gems. Then she came home and Roars stole her face gems. 

#littlesistersaretheworst #littlemonster
Cece had a gorgeous time at Lily’s pamper party Cece had a gorgeous time at Lily’s pamper party yesterday! 

#pamperparty #7thbirthday #birthdayparty

Lojo Vs The World

An adventure of life, food and a splash of gin

  • Family
  • Food and Drink
  • Days Out
  • Nights Out
  • Travel
  • Home and Garden
  • Music

Life Last Month – August

06/09/2018      Leave a Comment

As I predicted last month, August was a bit quieter than its predecessors thankfully. I still managed a month packed full of fun and nice times though.

August gingerline

I started the month going back to school. Specifically, to The Faculty of Eatucation courtesy of Gingerline. It was a lot of fun and made me laugh. This was my first Gingerline experience and has definitely made me hungry for more.

august on the farm

I got over excited and made Tom drive all over the countryside so we could pick our own fruit and then get some lavender and sunflowers. We were in the car for ages between all the different places but it was so worth it. It was nice to be out in the sunshine surrounded by green.

ice cream in august

We went to Hertfordshire for the annual Pyke Family Barbecue. It’s always a lovely day and is nice to catch up with friends.

mum and dad in august

We got a long weekend visit from my mum and dad. It was lovely to see them and Cece is always spoilt rotten when they’re around. They looked after her while Tom and I went to Oxford to belatedly celebrate his birthday. We stayed overnight at Crazy Bear in Stadhampton, in a super swish suite. I do spoil that boy!! Ha.

crazy Bear in August

tom in the pillory in august

I got a chance to catch up with some friends I haven’t seen for a while when Steven held girls’ night in at his. It was lovely to spend some time with him, Louise and Felicity.

kingdom of cats august

It wouldn’t be a month in my world if I didn’t do at least one escape room, right? A trip to Aldgate saw me taking on the Kingdom Of Cats with death by a thousand scratches if we didn’t escape.

deliveroo august

I was invited to help Deliveroo recreate that iconic photo of lunch atop a skyscraper. Instead of travelling to New York to sit on top of the Rockefeller Center like the photograph, we went to Guy’s Hospital. We may have only been at half the height of that original snap but it was high enough for me.

the bloody elbow in august

As if Kingdom of Cats was my only escape room this month. I did two in one evening.  We took on Escaped London’s The Bloody Elbow and Da Vinci. The Bloody Elbow was actually pretty scary, although that could have just been me freaking myself out. I did scream a few times though.

us da vinci august

I also got my craft on at Make More Festival in Victoria Park. I got to stretch those craftsy muscles that I haven’t in a while and forgot how much I enjoy making things. I enjoyed my necklace workshop with Maiden Aunt so much that I’m planning to join her again for a mind crafternoon in December.

make more festival august

This takes us up to the Bank Holiday Weekend and we started Saturday with a leisurely brunch with Rosie and Ian at Wood Street Coffee before taking a stroll across the Walthamstow Wetlands while Cece napped. On the way back we stopped off at Lloyd Park for her to let her crazies out and feed the ducks before we went home to collapse in front of The Secret Life of Pets.

Me and Cece August

We managed to squeeze in two rounds of adventure golf at Lost Jungle with Tom’s parents before the heavens opened. We retreated to Battlers Green Farm Shopping Village for food and some solstice from the rain. There are some lovely little shops there and some hella expensive ones too.

august characuture

I ended the month catching up with Steph and bumping into the Love Pop Ups crew at All Star Bowling in White City. It’s a gorgeous venue, they say the décor is Malibu themed. I say it’s a little more old Hollywood glamour. Either way, it’s beautiful. The entertainment was interesting too. I’ve never had a caricature drawn of myself before so was interested to see what damage he’d do. I thought it was pretty good actually. Although, I completely forgot that I had a nose ring until I saw this!

Like I said, another busy month but a little more sedated than they have been recently. Here’s to September.

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

I'm Lojo, Laura or Mother Ruin depending on how you know me. I'm a 30-something, mum of two girls, from Liverpool living in London. I write about the things that interest me which usually involves food, travel, having fun and gin!

Twitter

Could not authenticate you.

Facebook

Facebook Pagelike Widget

Copyright © 2025 · Lojo Vs The World · Wordpress Theme by TinselPop

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT