When Possum was about 12 I "treated" her and me to a Walnut Whip from the English shop in Everberg. We both spat it out - cheap milk chocolate with palm oil instead of cocoa butter and the whip part was overly sweet and sickly and tacky.
Not what I remembered and not good for a girl brought up on Belgian chocolate.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I found OH a tub of his favourite, all dairy ice cream with Madagascar vanilla pods. His second favourite, salted caramel, is still not available. Never mind, we also have real chocolate mini eggs - Milka.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
With silly arses throwing their cats out because they think they could ‘catch’ the virus from them, I’d steer clear of Chinese takeaways for long time.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Hyacinth is out in the garden in her rollers. Obviously preparing for a social occasion. Distancing obviously doesn't apply to women who wear their rollers in public. Who uses hair rollers now anyway? She probably has a stash of Twink ,Vitapoint Lincobeer shampoo. Aquamanda and Pond's Vanishing Cream too.
After a month of not being able to, I really, really miss not going out to lunch. There is also an all the more fabulous for being in the middle of nowhere Indian restaurant we used to get the odd takeaway curry from. I’m salivating just thinking about their Prawn Madras but it’s totally closed, so no takeaway. 😔
I fear I am not being curmudgeonly enough about the family from Barcelona that have sneaked out to spend their Easter hols in their country property up a remote country track just up the road from me. Yes, it’s completely against the law, yes, an unnecessary journey/risk of car accident etc., but so long as they have bought all their supplies and don’t venture out to the local shop to infect the local populace, I kind of feel ok about it. I know I shouldn’t. I do understand the temptation - must be absolute hell being holed up in a flat in Barca. I know, I know, no excuse, we are all in it together etc.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I don't blame them either, it must be absolute hell cooped up in a flat with children for long. My niece is going bananas as she's trying to cope with 7 week old twins, her 3 yr old boy plus a not very supportive husband. At least she has a house and garden though.
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Not what I remembered and not good for a girl brought up on Belgian chocolate.
Chinese curry sauce made from concentrate
Greasy sugary jam doughnuts. - not the ones with a nod to healthy
Double shish kebab extra salad pita separate
Pork pie or scotch egg with shredded beetroot out of a jar and a tad of mayonnaise out of a jaron
I could go on but there are middle-class children watching
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Obviously preparing for a social occasion. Distancing obviously doesn't apply to women who wear their rollers in public. Who uses hair rollers now anyway? She probably has a stash of Twink ,Vitapoint Lincobeer shampoo. Aquamanda and Pond's Vanishing Cream too.
I fear I am not being curmudgeonly enough about the family from Barcelona that have sneaked out to spend their Easter hols in their country property up a remote country track just up the road from me. Yes, it’s completely against the law, yes, an unnecessary journey/risk of car accident etc., but so long as they have bought all their supplies and don’t venture out to the local shop to infect the local populace, I kind of feel ok about it. I know I shouldn’t. I do understand the temptation - must be absolute hell being holed up in a flat in Barca. I know, I know, no excuse, we are all in it together etc.