I was thinking that I might make a "Toad in the hole" for dinner tonight, some mashed potato, onion gravy and garden peas, why not? Toulouse sausage because that's the region we live in, and onion gravy because I like it.
I have already lit the living room fire and done the washing up whilst "Mrs stuff to do" is out giving music lessons to some nearby french families. Here in our little rather rural bit of France we do actually have electricity, water and the internet (for most of the time) but we don't have gas, unless it's bottled and it was only two years ago that we had mains drainage, so every morning in winter the fires have to be lit in the house, and I have to admit that despite the work involved in cutting and stacking the wood watching the flames dancing and flickering inside the wood burner is very therapeutic and comforting.
I don't do well with deadlines, I was hoping to start this blog thing before, not after Christmas, it's not my first blog but I had completely forgotten how to start a new one, Christmas and New Year just passed in a haze of wood smoke and brussel sprouts. The one thing I must learn in this new blog (according to Mrs stuff to do) is to keep each post shorter than I used to do, so here is a photo of my new Christmas slippers which someone thought I needed and I'll tell you what else I got in a while.
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