I ran out of bread yesterday and rather than going to the shops yesterday evening, I thought I’d go this morning before work. You can take it that there was in fact very little thought given to this until about 06:30, when I realised I’d need to have a shower and wash my hair before I could emerge outside. Anyway – Amn’t I wonderful? that’s exactly what I did!
I decided to treat myself and rather than getting a sliced pan, I bought a loaf from the lidl bakery instead. Apparently it’s called a “Country Loaf”, according to my receipt. According to me, it’s just delicious. Whether it’s a doorstep with just butter, butter and jam, or toasted with butter – it’s all good and almost all gone. Although I will say this for one of the slices of toast, you’d swear I’d never buttered toast before – it was carnage! It still tasted great though
Note to self: thinner slices will make it last (no they won’t)
Like those memes of the selfie – saying felt cute but might delete – this is just to see if I can get it to cross post and so will probably delete once I see it manifest itself elsewhere.
I wonder if I can get it to go elsewhere after that…
This is going to be short’n’sweet as I’m just out if bed as I type this!
This morning I have done something I haven’t done in a while – I got up, made myself a cup of coffee (mug of coffee) brought it back to bed, switched on the speaker and listened to some background music and read a magazine on the iPad. I can’t remember the last time I flicked through a magazine. It was so worth it – I have a new recipe for tea brack and I have discovered there is a new book I want to buy, although it’s still only being written. It seems that Joanne Harris is currently writing a prequel to Chocolat. Mind you it seems that the kindle edition of Blackberry Wine is 99c/p on Amazon ’til the end of March – I’ll have that, Thank You Very Much!!
On that note, I’m off to sit on the sofa and watch Pride & Prejudice – the entire 1995 mini series – well what else would you be doing on a Sunday?
BTW the recipe was in the March issue of the Country Living magazine
I always thought that I was bad at blogging because I had a boring life. Well recently I’ve been doing THINGS so it seems I’m just really rubbish at writing about it! I’m not going to list off all of the things I’ve been doing – in fairness it’s not really a long list, but it’s more than two things so that definitely constitutes as being a list right?
Today I took the day off work to go and get my eyes tested. It seems my vari-focals will see me through for another year or two and after that I’m reverting back to single vision lens because I tend to use my reading glasses for all things bar seeing. My eyes are complicated – long sighted/shortsighted/astigmatism <- I should point out that I do only have two eyes but one of them has two defects, just in case you were getting carried away with notions. When I was finished with the opticians I decided to drop into the library. Now this is no longer my local library – but it was when I was growing up and I remember the joy of being able to go from taking books out upstairs in the children’s section to taking out books from the grown-ups library downstairs. Of course all of that has changed now but the memories were wonderful. I went in and although it’s smaller, it definitely felt like they had more books than my local disappointment. I decided to take out a book anyway – I mean, how daring! and yes it does mean I have to go back and return it in a few weeks but that’s no great hardship really – ok maybe the parking is – but…
I’ve listened to the Audio books of the other two in the series and they were lovely! “Not Quite Nice” & “Nice Work (If You Can Get It)” were both read by the author herself and believe me when I say she really has the voice for audio books – absolutely delicious! This trilogy (so far a trilogy) is about a group of British Ex-Pats, plus Carol the American, all living in Bellevue-sur-Mer, along the coast from Cannes. I don’t want to spoil it but it’s basically about their friendships and adventures. I’m almost tempted to compare it to the Famous Five, if they had all retired to the south of France. The south of France is also why there’s so many plays on the Nice and the British nice.
Anyway – I’m off to put the kettle on, this has put me in the mood for a nice cup of tea, and I’ve a book to be reading!
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