10-04-25

Hi, everyone.  It is Thursday and it's about half past five so too dark to see if there's another frost this morning.  The heating has clicked in so it can't be that warm but it's nothing like yesterday when it really was cold first thing and then through the morning too.  I don't think my fingers warmed up properly all day.

It was a bit of a day yesterday.  After I had posted yesterday's blog, I checked Facebook and messages to discover that Beth had been taken into hospital overnight with a very high pulse and some pain.   After some messaging and at her request, I drove over to Broomfield Hospital to find her in what I mentally call the 'walking wounded room', officially the 'Ambulatory Majors'.   She'd had tests, hadn't slept, was now off her drip and waiting to be 'seen' before being discharged.  Long story short, her heart rate had gone dangerously high so she dialled 111 and was taken to A&E.

She was given a prescription for antibiotics, we had to wait for the pharmacy to open (we had a very nice coffee from one of the coffee outlets there), then we had to wait while they made up the prescription and I finally got her home around ten fifteen-ish.
No idea why this happened but, obviously, it's being followed up.

So that was 'exciting'.

I really couldn't settle to much after that and, as already mentioned, it was soooooo cold!

While we were chatting over our coffee, she said how much they had enjoyed the sourdough loaf I gave her and would be quite happy for more to come her way.  Yay.  You see, I want to practise and play around with different flours, etc, but there's only so much bread a Slimming World person can possibly manage and my freezer is full.  This way I get to practise AND do a good deed at the same time.

So guess what I am looking at right now . . . yup, a half and half having just had its long fermentation and looking remarkably healthy - in fact, it has grown since I started typing this and I must get it shaped and into the banneton - hang on . . .

. . . oh, yes, that's a nice dough!  It ought to now go in the fridge for the final rise but there isn't room so it will just have to go into a cool spot - behind the curtains, maybe. 

As for today, it's another quiet day.  Chris is round for coffee and chat and this afternoon I will go round to Lindsey's for Groove in the Garden (hopefully).

The rest is the usual stuff and I must start thinking about varnish, etc, for those tables.  And I will have a loaf to bake in a few hour's time.

I think it will be a nice day and I hope yours is too.  See you tomorrow . . .  xx