Well the weather’s been odd hasn’t it? The other weekend there was the best sort of snow, the best sort because it was here and gone within a day! I’m not a huge fan of snow, though admit it does look pretty. It didn’t really settle here, and there was a little more than this photo shows, and for London it was enough. Enough for those that wanted to to play, but not enough to cause the usual disruption. Seeing the pictures of Greenwich Park was good, but with our Covid view of the world, I wonder if like me you also viewed these pictures with a social distancing lens.
In reality though, we’ve done very little - which is the purpose of lockdown I guess. We’ve only been out to the shops once or twice in the past fortnight so it is quite dull. The weather seems to time it just so when we could escape we don’t as it’s too wet, too cold or even too snowy. On the plus side it’s meant I can really get on with my half and half squares made from the mini-skeins from the yarn advent calendar.
These are from days 1 through to 14, so I’m over half-way. The colours are random, some are quite bold others more delicate. I’ve four of each colour, two with the pink/grey neutral and two with the blue/grey neutral. I’m yet to decide how to layout the squares for the blanket, or whether or not to make one or two throws. When I’m a bit further through I’ll lay them out and see what I think works, and probably ponder a bit more.
MOH has come up with a great idea, which involves drinking gin - so who am I to disagree? With gin arriving every month, and each coming with mixers and often syrups we’re gathering a growing collection of all sorts. His plan is for us to make some headway with the mixers and syrups, and obviously gin. I told you it was a good plan.
We’ve started with a gin star martini - a gin take on the porn star martini I’m sure - gin, mango & passionfruit juice, syrup and lime. I could only muster a dried lime, but a lime’s a lime I reckon.
I’ve got back into making bread, and while I’ve revived my sourdough starter (actually must go check on that soon) it’s the wholemeal loaf that’s currently our favourite. Most recently I’ve shaped into more of an loaf shape, rather than a cob. It’s the same mixture, so must work…
And so far, so good.
Now that our Christmas cake is long gone, MOH has got back into the baking habit again - we’re currently on a lemon and poppy seed traybake, but there’s also been a chai banana loaf. You see we are both lockdown cliches. And somewhere in the middle of this, it’s February already, though on some days I already think it’s been a long year.