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.
So English people do eat pancakes! My mother and I were debating this point...
ReplyDeleteIt's only 7:30 in the morning here, but I have one very beautiful thing already: finding a response to an email I'd sent to a leasing agent in the neighborhood I'm moving to. I'd very gingerly asked if she had any apartments that might expose me to "minimal resident and street noise." I didn't have a whole lot of hope, but...
Her response: "Excellent. I know just what to show you."
But the pancakes are way too thin.
ReplyDeleteJoe in Vegas -- they are thin because it leaves more room for chocolate spread!
ReplyDeleteChristine -- they might be a bit different to what you call pancakes. Our batter is very runny, so the pancakes are the size of the frying pan.
I'm so glad about the househunting -- hope it goes well. It helps to have an 'on-message' estate agent.