Well, the cogs in this big mechanical beast have moved on. Creak creak. Can you hear it?
We now have an appointment to go and talk to the big important people at the US Embassy on Grosvenor Square on Monday 23rd Nov at 9am. Poor husband has to shave off the beard he's being trying to cultivate over the past week. But all going well, we hope to be skipping out of there with visas in sweaty palms at circa 10.30am. Excited? Well, just a little bit!
Apart from that, pantry success stories I'm afraid have been few and far between. But I have managed to wear down the bag of lentils, start on the jar of green peppercorns (getting a little enthusiastic with the little buggers in a creme fraiche and mustard sauce was not a good idea!) and whittling down (literally) the strands of wakame seaweed – they do a rather nice 3-point pike into a bowl of miso.
So, Minnesota and the snow shoes don't feel so far away now, so I think I'll soon be reaching for the credit card to buy that duvet coat with the fur lined hoodie!
Yesterday I went to Stamfords book store on Long Acre Lane in Covent Garden to meet a friend (wondering all the while why I had never ever been in there before... what an amazing place!) and discovered to my slight consternation that there wasn't a guidebook on Minneapolis & St. Paul. I don't think I've ever lived in a city which didn't proudly bear the badge of a Such & Such Guide Book being dediated to its every corridor. Which on one hand of course, takes the fun out of discovering the place, but on the other makes me a little worried about the amount there is to find.
But I'm sweeping any of those negative thoughts firmly out with the autumn leaves and packaging them up into bags to be picked up from the street and taken away. If there isn't a brilliant guide to what is going down in my almost-new-hometown, then I'll make one. So, that when you all come over to visit I can present your very own HelloMiniApple Guidebook.
I think we need a character here. A little cute bunny or something: À la Hello Kitty. Hmmm. I think I could so with some suggestions please. If you have an ideas of what creature/animal/ameoba should be the mascot of HelloMiniApple please let me know!
This is not a competition, but the winner gets the first edition, first.
Isn't that a nice prize?
Ciao bambinos! Lunching awaits me!
We now have an appointment to go and talk to the big important people at the US Embassy on Grosvenor Square on Monday 23rd Nov at 9am. Poor husband has to shave off the beard he's being trying to cultivate over the past week. But all going well, we hope to be skipping out of there with visas in sweaty palms at circa 10.30am. Excited? Well, just a little bit!
Apart from that, pantry success stories I'm afraid have been few and far between. But I have managed to wear down the bag of lentils, start on the jar of green peppercorns (getting a little enthusiastic with the little buggers in a creme fraiche and mustard sauce was not a good idea!) and whittling down (literally) the strands of wakame seaweed – they do a rather nice 3-point pike into a bowl of miso.
So, Minnesota and the snow shoes don't feel so far away now, so I think I'll soon be reaching for the credit card to buy that duvet coat with the fur lined hoodie!
Yesterday I went to Stamfords book store on Long Acre Lane in Covent Garden to meet a friend (wondering all the while why I had never ever been in there before... what an amazing place!) and discovered to my slight consternation that there wasn't a guidebook on Minneapolis & St. Paul. I don't think I've ever lived in a city which didn't proudly bear the badge of a Such & Such Guide Book being dediated to its every corridor. Which on one hand of course, takes the fun out of discovering the place, but on the other makes me a little worried about the amount there is to find.
But I'm sweeping any of those negative thoughts firmly out with the autumn leaves and packaging them up into bags to be picked up from the street and taken away. If there isn't a brilliant guide to what is going down in my almost-new-hometown, then I'll make one. So, that when you all come over to visit I can present your very own HelloMiniApple Guidebook.
I think we need a character here. A little cute bunny or something: À la Hello Kitty. Hmmm. I think I could so with some suggestions please. If you have an ideas of what creature/animal/ameoba should be the mascot of HelloMiniApple please let me know!
This is not a competition, but the winner gets the first edition, first.
Isn't that a nice prize?
Ciao bambinos! Lunching awaits me!
(Don't forget to tune in on Monday to be the first to hear the news.)
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