A week in pictures.

[curiouswombat]

This is my weekly '365 days in pictures' post.

It hasn't been a terribly exciting week, so no really exciting pictures. The high spot of the week was today, but as I am doing Sunday to Saturday weeks, a picture of my brother-in-law's 50th birthday lunch will have to wait until next week!



On Sunday Daughter-dear gave me some 'Early Mothering Sunday' flowers, as she will not be home next week.




On Monday D-d and I paid a flying visit to my Mum's in Bride before I took D-d back to the airport - I was off work on Monday. This is my Mum's bungalow, with her miniature daffodils, and tulips and crocuses in one of the hanging baskets.



Back to work on Tuesday - this is the view from the door of the building I work in - not the view from my window though - that is so high in my office wall that all I can see is sky!



Wednesday - this is my lunch, eaten at home - I often get home for lunch, which is a really nice thing! This is 'still life with oatcakes, peanut-butter and marmalade...



Thursday - when I got home from work at 5.45pm I got the last parking space on the street - and then realised that we seem to be breeding Citroens - the front, red, C4 belongs to our next door neighbour, the blue C3 belongs to the woman across the road, then my white C3, with the black C4 at the end of the row belongs to someone three houses down on our side...



Friday - this is our usual greeting when we come home from work -



And on Saturday I went to see my Mum, took her to do her shopping, and called in at my favourite craft shop, in Ramsey, to get some deep pink card for the children at Church to use today to make 'thank-you' hearts for their Mums, step-Mums, grandmas, whoever, for next week's Mothering Sunday service.



The hearts worked out well - cut two heart shapes out of the card, each about 6" or so wide and high, decorate, staple into a 'pocket', and then put into the pockets slips of paper that say 'I love you because...', for the Mum to take out whenever she needs cheering up!



We had a lovely lunch out at the Hilton for BiL's birthday and, even though we had to leave early so that S2C could come home to bed, I am still totally stuffed!

Comments

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

Your Mum's bungalow is beautiful!

We don't have oatcakes here in the American Midwest. At least I've never seen any. But we do have rice cakes, basically an oatcake but made with puffed rice. I eat my peanut butter and jam (or honey or hazelnut butter or chocolate chips or banana slices) on sliced bread from the grocery store--the cheap, soft kind.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We get rice cakes too, but I prefer oatcakes - they are more like what I think you call Graham crackers than like rice cakes. Much though I like my marmalade on bread, or toast, the wheat doesn't really agree with me, hence the oatcakes!

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

I used to be allergic to whole wheat (bleached wheat, or "white" bread was okay), but I've gotten over that allergy since my teens. Graham crackers are also made from wheat, but a wheat flour mixed with either honey or molasses, some kind of thick sugar syrup, and have the consistency of soft gingersnaps and other flat biscuits.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have the impression that graham crackers are a bit like digestive biscuits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit) - oatcakes are a little harder than digestives, but about the same thickness.

My wheat allergy has got worse as I have got older, sadly.

[raingirl26.livejournal.com]

I'm always fascinated that things like graham crackers aren't universal in the western worlds. If you didn't notice my reply to vilajunkie, did you know you can toast rice cakes?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Whereas we find it equally odd that you don't have digestive biscuits - no Brit can imagine life without chocolate coated digestives! But we realise that the Graham cracker must be vaguely similar because it's what you use to make cheesecake base where we use digestives!

[raingirl26.livejournal.com]

We can access LU cookies that have a wonderful flat cookie that's chocolate coated - are they something like that (if you know the LU brand)?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I didn't recognise the name, but I do recognise the biscuits now that I have googled them - http://www.lubiscuits.com/varieties.html there is actually a proper chocolate digestive there. And you have Jaffa cakes but called orange pimms - isn't the internet educational?

[raingirl26.livejournal.com]

Did you know that you can toast rice cakes? I was so suprised the first time someone told me and again when I tried it and it worked beautifully! Nice change for the things.