Thrift is winning today over calorie restriction and lunch will be pasta – using up a glut of mushrooms (must persuade Mr L that stuff not on the shopping list is absent for a reason and not because I forgot to put it on there) and a tub of cream that wandered home with him …
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Got up and gone
I am having much difficulty in finding my get up and go today. Perhaps I peaked with the massive linen reorganisation the other day. Or maybe it has something to do with the dodgy tummy that I was suffering all night. Whatever the cause, I find myself just slumping today. It’s a fasting day – …
Most unlikley
Well, that’s the washing out on the line (don’t know how long it will stay there in this wind) and the bread dough rising. Next task, after making (and eating) a brunch of peach pancakes with bacon and maple syrup is to turn Brunhilde around and then it should be time to shape my baguettes. Yesterday …
Slowly, slowly
The weather picked up a little on Wednesday and was a far drier day. I did something about the huge pile of laundry that had come home with us on Monday and I cleared some things out of the van, taking Teddy in with me to begin his process of familiarisation. He had a thorough …
Hobble-de-Hoy
We are returned from Hoy and so very glad that we went. Full details and lots of photos (I came home with 410 frames) will appear on Two Snails when I have found time to do the necessary. In the meantime, a brief précis here: Friday We left on the Friday lunch-time boat. Having decided …
Feeling light-headed
Yesterday’s quick trip to town consisted of: purchase of two polo shirts from EWM a half hour’s shearing session at the hairdresser half an hour in the cathedral with the camera, taking photos of the flower-arranging festival exhibits cheese (pecorino with saffron and black peppercorns) MGs Tesco I am so relieved to be shorn. When …