Confisserie, careful what you wish for and treat.
1. I baked a lemon cake. It went badly, badly wrong. I didn't check whether I had all the ingredients and had to substitute wholemeal bread flour for self-raising and halve the quantity of sugar - but that's all right because my baking tray was too small anyway. Then I switched on the grill instead of the oven and had to hack a burnt crust off the top of the cake halfway through cooking. It tastes OK, though. Bit rough, but perfectly edible (I tested it on PaulV and he's still alive).
2. I set out to get a newspaper. But the newsagents at the end of the street was closed. So was the one on the Pantiles. In a monumental sulk, I turned round to go home. But lo and behold, there, propped against a wall, was a copy of the paper I wanted.
3. Eighths of an orange with chocolate sauce.
2. I set out to get a newspaper. But the newsagents at the end of the street was closed. So was the one on the Pantiles. In a monumental sulk, I turned round to go home. But lo and behold, there, propped against a wall, was a copy of the paper I wanted.
3. Eighths of an orange with chocolate sauce.
Here are the amusing things that happened to me yesterday, both in Sainsburys.
ReplyDeleteThe first was a young mother and her five year old son, busy investigating the boxes of Golden Grahams, obviously in search of that last elusive free CD. They had all the boxes out on the floor, and the boy was right in the rack and there was only his bottom sticking out. It was the way they were both totally absorbed in the search that made me smile.
The second was a lady talking to the bakery boy, saying 'this loaf was 10p and now you've sliced it it's 50p'. He says in reply 'yeah, it's because, like, when you slice it you get an extra day's freshness'. The lady laughed in his face, gave him the bread back and walked off. His face was a picture, because he knew he was talking b*llox. Nice try sunshine!
My recently acquired beard is a thing of beauty.
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HI Clare!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Monika, and I live at the moment in Iceland...I stumbled on your page by a connection to the book "Little Women". I would juts like to say that you have a beautiful blog and I enjoy reading it. So keep up the good work and I will check this page from time to time. The beautiful thing that happened to me today is my bird Peggy. She is my rather new pet and we get closer each day. Today she spent an hour on my shoulder pecking at my ear! It wa snice!!!
I love pie!
ReplyDeleteBut real Dutch 'drop' (something like licorice) is a beautiful thing as well!