1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the mizzling clouds, but we had got up at 4am and were there observing the moment it came up, and that's what counts. 2. Food at The Junction Inn , Groombridge. All four lunchclub members were impressed by the quality -- although the portions were rather small. I had smoked eel with beetroot cream (Oli says that sounds like witch food, but it was delicious, and didn't taste of beetroot at all); Ed and Doug had wild mushroom risotto; and Johnny P got his face round a huge homemade burger. It had chips with it that were very good too -- I know this because I stole some. 3. Taking The Mother's homemade cakes to work. There were three -- one chocolate, one coffee and walnut and one lemon with homemade jam in the middle. There was a lot of stickiness in the office for most of the afternoon.
My beautiful thing from Saturday is the sugar glass crunch you get when you stick the toe of your wellington boot through a frozen puddle.
ReplyDeleteRe the colour scheme change, it is very moderne chic, but I agree with Anonymous that the pink was more cheerful! I can see how the blokes might object though. I expect Clare has thought long and hard about her colour choice, but I am finding it a bit serious now. Does anyone else have any strong feelings about it?
I do -- I like it better this way.
ReplyDeleteThis blog will -- at some point -- be moving to a more classier blog engine and I am going to commission a template that totally suits 3BT.
I'm sorry, pink fans. Perhaps you could fiddle with the colour settings on your monitor to achieve a similar effect? Or subscribe to the site feed using a feed manager that has a pink setting.