Car rescue, rye bread and happy anticipation
1. Last weekend we were on our way to visit friends and their four-month-old baby in Bristol on Saturday when our car broke down on the motorway half-an-hour shy of our destination. We ended up having to make the tough decision to pay to get it towed back home (tough because it’s an old car and what if we paid the money and it’s officially dead?) BUT then the good things started happening. Our friends came and rescued us, we had a lovely weekend catching up and wandering around Bristol and best of all I got to have lots of baby cuddles! And then far from having to be written off, as I feared last week, the car only cost £18 to fix! It was the clutch, which we’d replaced last year and was still under warranty!
Oh, and I saw a beautiful brown hare in the field while we were waiting on the side of the (smelly, noisy) motorway. I’ve seen them before but this was close up!
2. It is definitely getting warmer. I even went for a lunchtime walk without my top coat on this week!
3. I have recently attended a couple of work events that made me realise how much more confident I have become since I started working in this job - one meeting that terrified me the first time I had to go is now just mildly interesting.
4. Although I like cooking, I had never made chicken stock until recently. It was embarrassingly easy, and nice to use.
5. Remember how I accidentally bought a pizza peel with a handle almost as tall as me? Well I finally got around to borrowing a saw off a friend, and today we cut it down to a less unwieldy length!
6. And now I have a loaf of rye bread in the oven.
7. Megan Whalen Turner’s new book, Conspiracy of Kings, comes out this week. I am away for work a lot over the next couple of weeks, so am unsure whether I should read it in bits between work things, or save it for the Easter break. What a lovely dilemma to have!
Lovely illustrations and more lists up as usual at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast!
Oh, and I saw a beautiful brown hare in the field while we were waiting on the side of the (smelly, noisy) motorway. I’ve seen them before but this was close up!
2. It is definitely getting warmer. I even went for a lunchtime walk without my top coat on this week!
3. I have recently attended a couple of work events that made me realise how much more confident I have become since I started working in this job - one meeting that terrified me the first time I had to go is now just mildly interesting.
4. Although I like cooking, I had never made chicken stock until recently. It was embarrassingly easy, and nice to use.
5. Remember how I accidentally bought a pizza peel with a handle almost as tall as me? Well I finally got around to borrowing a saw off a friend, and today we cut it down to a less unwieldy length!
6. And now I have a loaf of rye bread in the oven.
7. Megan Whalen Turner’s new book, Conspiracy of Kings, comes out this week. I am away for work a lot over the next couple of weeks, so am unsure whether I should read it in bits between work things, or save it for the Easter break. What a lovely dilemma to have!
Lovely illustrations and more lists up as usual at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast!