This week I'm mainly working on writing instructions, proof-reading a book on making wire beaded butterflies and bugs and finishing my latest Jaipur Jewels piece.

Tonight though I'm having dinner out with a good friend to catch-up, unwind and generally gossip and laugh - the perfect way to end the week.

We started out evening in the lovely Quo Vadis and took full of advantage of the 50% off food offer I had booked us into. I started with oysters and then moved onto monkfish which I had never eaten before and adored it. My companion had a lovely salad to start and then seabass. Added to that we shared some of their triple-cooked chips which were the best chips I had ever eaten.

Although we were beyond full, and I'm not really a dessert person, we couldn't resist the lure of the dark chocolate crackle topped off with gold leaf and the petit fours.

Fit to burst we rolled out of there and headed to Selfridges. Today is the start of London Cocktail Week and we needed to go and pick up our wrist bands and of course try out the Gordon's pop-up bar for a drink.