- At a secondary school open evening, O asking our hulking great fifteen-year-old male tour guide "do you learn ballet at this school?"
- Remembering that with everyone else at school or work, I can enjoy eating those things that nobody else will eat. Like prawns.
- Finding out that a good friend has acquired her first hens. I always like to see more people joinging the club. Someone else has new ones too - including a very pretty speckeldy.
- A new magazine.
- Cooking so many wonderful dishes from the new Nigella Lawson cookbook - Kitchen. It might be her best yet - but I always say that. The biggest hits so far have beeen the strawberry and almond crumble (cooked strawberries - controversial! but it works) and the Indian spiced roast potatoes.
- My nearly eleven-year-old using the words 'random' and 'whatever' in one sentence. I feel that if I shut my eyes for a moment he might turn into a teenager.
- Planning and sewing for my Etsy shop - coming very soon!
I'm wondering if I really need another cookery book... but I love the thought of cooked strawberries so I guess I've answered my own question!
ReplyDeleteAn Etsy shop you say? Wow!
An Etsy shop, how exciting. Look forward to seeing all the goodies.
ReplyDeleteI picked up that magazine this week too, looks good. My Belgian friend sends me Marie Claire Idees and I never feel there's a decent craft magazine here I can send back (Selvedge being too expensive), I think this could be it.
ReplyDeleteI have friends who have spent all summer raisng a chicken run, and visiting their teenage son in hospital when he had a horrible accident with a sledgehammer in the process- anyway, they now say that they shouldn't buy chickens for the edifice until the Spring- I shall be citing your friends as evidence to the contrary!
ReplyDeleteOooh, glad to hear you've tried the strawberry crumble, I was a it chicken. I am loving Kitchen too - everything so far has been a roaring success.
ReplyDeleteNancy, tell more about your Etsy shop, what are thinking of selling- knitting, sewing?
ReplyDeleteOh those roast potatoes sound very good. I'm very much looking forward to Thursday night - I think that's when the first episode of Kitchen is aired.
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