The weather was cool and grey on Thursday (9C) but had
become cold on Friday, a front moving in from the north-west, and Saturday
arrived with the first real frost of Autumn, Had to scrape the car.
Temperatures have been low ever since (Max. Around 5C on Saturday). Forecast is
warmer and wetter for the rest of the weekend ...
A strange week, for lots of reasons. But not unpleasant,
for the most part.
On Thursday we went to Bohemia (usually, we eat out once
a month with one of our friends, but he hasn’t managed to be in touch for a
while --- he’s fine, just further up the autistic spectrum than we are). A pleasant evening with a
chance to chat to Andrew & Ross who own/run the place.
We ate:
Smoked salmon & prawn
Parcels (Bob)
Falafels with a date
& mint raita dip
Lamb chump, pesto
mash, redcurrant & rosemary jus (Bob)
Fish pie with spinach
(this
turned out to be Ross’s ‘emergency’ dish when he found he’d run out of tuna –
Ali said it was good.)
Peas & carrots
Apple crumble &
ice cream (Ali)
Friday
Included a visit to the GP practice to review my hypertension
and give blood sample (a 6 monthly thing because of medication). As usual, learnt
that the obesity/waist-size/whatever rules have changed .
We ate:
Well, we’d got
leftover kidneys Turbigo and some cold roast pork, so I made a tomato-ish sauce
and chopped everything up and served it over pasta. Good!
Saturday
Cold (as stated above) air temperature around 0 until
10:00 hrs. Shopping and then a trip into Birmingham (I’m looking for a jacket).
Found a nice leather one in TK. Turned out it was nice because it was Ralph Lauren
and was still £400. Not quite what I was willing to pay.
We ate:
BLT
(well, my take on it – eggs stuffed with a mayo/egg yolk/chopped lardon mix on
some home-grown rocket, with baby plum tomatoes & pea shoots.
Toad in the hole (any readers who believe
that we ate amphibians should do a few minutes research on the WWW )
(Toad in the hole is one of Ali’s favourite meals, so
this was a special thing to say ‘thanks’.)
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