Fourteen years ago, on an August Bank Holiday weekend, I tried to impress a bloke by showing him that I could cook for him some exceptionally tasty vegetarian food. As it happened, the impressing had already been done. He declared his feelings and we have been together ever since. The bloke is no longer veggie …
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Soul Destroying
I just paid a visit to Mr L’s office – to enquire whether we might not be rich for a while. Could he not win the lottery or something – after all, I cannot, as I never play it. I told him: he can have no conception of just how much I hate housework. I …
Spicing things up a little
There’s a brown-ish, seedy, malty load on the rise today. Gill delivered fresh yeast last night and I had no intention of allowing it to linger. I’m still using up a mix of flours that I tipped the ends of into a box together. It makes a good bread – there’s seeded rustic flour in …
Plan A
Saturday was a dismal day. The rain simply tanked down. We got a good soaking at the bottle bank, did some shopping at the Community and Corses shops and then headed to a house-viewing appointment. I think that the house viewing was a success. It has toned down Mr L’s ambition to move back to …
A Grand Day Out
The Land Rover was booked onto Monday’s ferry in order to take Griff to his vet appointment. As the poor thing did not last out that long, we were going to cancel both the vet and the ferry but I had an idea… Mr L is on holiday and nothing much was spoiling and so …
Didn’t we have some splendid times?
It was great having you for a pal. We shall miss you. I am sorry your end was not easier.