  Yet more.... Arrgh. Thing's gone back to the single little window. Heff's bin fiddlin'... Ended up having a nice day. I made Heff squeeze out the water from the bread so I could make bread-pudding. He'd never et bread-pudding before. He wanted to eat it hot. And put cream on it! (He's SO unsophisticated!! ) (said she from the manky bit of Pleb End) But I think he likes.
Reason I mention this is 'coz it's the first gratuitous and spontaneous bit of non-essential cooking I've done for months. I think I am already missing all my pots, pans and culinary gee-gaws. Do you know that, apart from a preserving pan, a pie-funnel, dariole moulds, 4 pestles and morters and a bamboo steamer, I also own a larding needle? That's a little device for making strips of streaky bacon go through the breasts of pheasants so they don't dry out in the oven.
Seriously. I spent WEEKS looking for one: finally, it cost me 2.50 from Fortnums (I think). How am I going to cope without my larding needle? Then again, here I am all excited about bread-pudding....so p'raps I won't miss it quite as much as I fear. Besides, I'll have my aloe vera plant to keep me company instead. Oh, and there's Heff too, I guess.... *purrs* Speaking of whom..... 
