Not that I want to tempt the prawn of fate, but I'm really happy at the moment. Ed finished his University term yesterday and Will's finished too and he's coming home tomorrow. The weather was lovely today and my garden's in chaos. The houndstooth has taken over once again, and I need to prune the roses but otherwise I'm thrilled that for the first time ever all the geraniums have survived and flowered through the winter and they might even be a bit splendid this summer with a whole year behind them. I love it when the boys are home, but I do have a bit of work to do and more than anything I could do with a place like the one beneath the tree in My Neighbour Totoro. Ed and I watched the Studio Ghibli films over and over when he was younger and I'll never tire of them. We'll still watch one if we have a quiet evening together. They are so beautiful, but Totoro especially.
This week has been a bit busy. I spent a day at the V&A on Wednesday, and I saw the William Kent exhibition during lunchtime. It was very enjoyable and although I should take his work seriously there is something about many of the things which he created that just make me smile, but in a nice way. His landscape work, which I really respect, was beautifully presented.
I had a bit of a worry with Tiffin yesterday, and in the middle of masses of making stuff for the evening for visitors I took her to the vets. I'm normally calm about most things but I was quite scared. My fingers are crossed that she is okay. The vet is brilliant. I think he might be Polish. He was so good with her. He is very funny and kind and I'd been in such a muddle. He talks as he works in a kind of Yoda speak which is lovely. When he'd finished examining her he gave her a big hug and a kiss on the top of her head and said, "happy we are." I've been saying "happy we are" to myself ever since.
I bought a new cookbook which I like very much, The Kinfolk Table. I had a cooking day yesterday and did recipes from their Copenhagen pages for last night. I picked a really big salad with lots of roasted feta and baby tomatoes and artichoke hearts, which I prepared myself, and also in it were olives, cucumber, avocado and pearl barley which was lovely because it was just a bit warm from the roasted part. I also did a different salad from the same group of recipes, with eggs and crab claws and and lettuce, and other bits and pieces. Plus potato salad, and two loaves, one of rye and one of wheat sourdough AND homemade panna cotta and berries. I didn't realise how easy it is to make panna cotta so I'll make some more tomorrow for Will because he missed it yesterday and there are no little pots of it left.
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