Talking about which...

I called my sister yesterday and had a quick chat with my niece too,
who was on her way out with some friends.
She asked me what I was doing and I told her I was going to have some
of that nice cheese with that even nicer pear and vanilla confit that
I bought with the baked figs (I added that I'd had it with the figs
the previous night). She said, "Oh... don't worry auntie, when we are
there in few weeks *we* will cook for you!"
Bless!

Today I was thinking of going to some jazz festival near where I
work, but the downpour settled that internal struggle... For a moment I pondered
giving the guy a ring, but then excitement took over and, hear hear!,
I have just put a little pork joint in the oven with spuds. Yay! For
the first time in years, a working oven... I can't wait for it to be
ready, it's only been in there twenty minutes or so and I've already
gone to check it 5 times, turning the light on, making sure it's
working, admiring the (very) slowly changing colour, noticing how the
herbs look pretty on it... Yes, very sad I know :)))

I was washing the potatoes in the sink when the rinse water from the
washing machine bubbled up from the plug hole. Roast pork with
potatoes à la Ecover and Comfort, yummy!