12-04-25

Good morning, everyone.

Absolutely first of all, thank you so much for your ongoing kind and supporting comments over these last few days,  What a lovely lot you all are - I am so fortunate.  It is an ongoing and very worrying situation and your kind words are a help.  Thank you all.

What a glorious day it was yesterday. Bright sunshine and temperatures in the twenties C - a perfect summer day and I had to water my pots in the evening.  Today is supposed to be nice too before a change on Sunday/Monday.

Here you go - a selfie of the three of us in the Horse and Groom - and I hasten to say that there was nothing stronger than Diet Pepsi in that glass.  Beth took it on her phone, terrible light but you get the idea.

It was lovely.  I had a chicken and bacon sandwich in ciabatta with chips and what was hopefully called 'salad'.  Er - no comment there but the whole thing was tasty.  
I haven't been buying bacon since I started cutting out UPFs and trying to lower the cholesterol so I enjoyed this as an occasional treat.

When we came out, I dropped Beth and Alex home and then went to the Clock Tower (close by) to do my shop.  Then I went home a slightly different way to fill up with petrol as the red light was showing - I went to that one because it was the cheapest in town at 135.9p per litre.  It's awful to think that's 'good' - I remember the fuss when petrol broke through the £1 barrier - it doesn't seem all that long ago!

Anyway, I filled her up so now I am hoping it will see me through until the end of May.

By the time I got home, it was late afternoon so I unpacked and put away the shopping and then I chilled in the sunshine with my crochet.  I had two big balls of Aran in my stash, one left from Beth's Christmas cardi and one from the cardigan I have just finished.  They seem to go together so I am turning them into another hexa-cardi , a stripy one, and making it shorter and more boxy as a summer thing.  Well, that's the theory anyway.  This time, I know what I'm doing a bit more which helps so I haven't had to frog much.

So today is a day at home with, hopefully, more lovely weather.  I've watched an Elaine Boddy video on turning her master sourdough recipe into focaccia and I'm going to give that a go, first with all white to start with and, if it works as it should, with mixed flours.  I have plenty of good stuff to go on top, rosemary and oregano in the garden, olives, sea salt, sundried tomato - just thinking about it tingles my tastebuds.

Actually - I've just remembered I will have to start the focaccia early or do it tomorrow as it's the Lee Mead concert this evening.  Not a problem, I'll see how Bubbles and Squeak behave after their feed and in the warmth.  xx

Better stop waffling and get on with my Facebook duties and then the day is mine.  Such a nice feeling!

Wishing you all a lovely Saturday too with lots of lovely weather and good things happening.  xx