LIFE' S RICH TAPESTRY

Someone up there sure doesn’t like me at the moment and just to put a cap on his or her disapproval, the heavens opened and I was drenched!!

This morning I got up at 5am, having gone to bed around midnight – I had been washing and ironing and folding and packing stuff to take to the car boot sale today – I may as well not have bothered. The grand total for the morning’s takings was £7.00!! I kid you not – my mum and I arrived at Aldenham Country Park around 6.30am and by 9am I was back at home feeling just a bit sorry for myself (boo hoo).

To cheer/warm myself up I made myself a nice Bacon, Tomato and Mayonnaise toasted sandwich and a big mug of Coffee – DELIGHTFUL!! Just what a body needs when the endorphin levels are down – a good chunk of Chocolate can help too – but I didn’t have any of that in the house, so I had to make do.

When I am feeling a bit peed off, I tend to pick up a book to read or do a crossword puzzle, today I have done both. I tried doing the Cryptic Puzzle in the Evening Standard, which isn’t really that difficult, but my brain wasn’t really in cryptic mode, so I thought I would read my book instead.

I have already mentioned that I started to read ‘Bend Sinister’ by Nabokov – I am still finding it a little difficult to get into, so I also have ‘My Name is Red’ by Orhan Pamuk and ‘Acorna’s Rebels’ by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, on the go.

The former is to read in my bed and the latter to read in my living room. The Anne McCaffrey book is one in the ‘Acorna’ series about a girl who is a mixture of unicorn and humanoid with special powers – I have mentioned before, that I really enjoy this author’s work as she is very descriptive and I find her style of writing very easy to read – Sometimes you don’t want anything too heavy.

I forgot to tell you that last Saturday ‘The Boyfriend’ finally wrenched himself away from work and took me out for a meal. We went to a Turkish restaurant in 80-82 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1, called ‘Efes’. It also has a takeaway section right next door to the restaurant, which is popular with the London Cabbies. I am sure my brother London Cabby knows this place really well - they make great kebabs and as you might know if you read his blog HE SURE DOES LOVE A KEBAB!!

We ate exceedingly well and had the following:

STARTERS/MEZE:

Prawn Cocktail
Hummus
Tzatziki (or whatever the Turkish equivalent is)
Taramosalata
Some other Fishy dip
Hot Cheesey pastries
Hot Liver in a crunchy coating (I DON’T LIKE LIVER)

MAIN COURSE

Lamb Cutlets
Mixed Kebab – Lamb Cutlets, Kofta Kebab, Doner Kebab & Shish Kebab (Boyfriend’s meal)
Rice
Salad

DESSERT

Baklava (sticky pastries with honey and walnut filling)

I also had three dry Martini and Lemonades!! I don’t normally drink as it goes straight to my head, but as I had eaten so much it didn’t affect me in the normal way.

All the above including drinks for ‘The Boyfriend’ came to £50!! Not bad for Central London.

I LOVE GOING TO EAT AND NOT HAVING TO PAY MY WAY.

Gosh talking about all this food has made me hungry again.

Got to go and eat something.

Auf Wiedersehen

Jo xx