6.05pm It's raining chips

After a marvellous warm sunny week, the rains have returned. I'm soaked, water is sloshing around in my ballet pumps and my stomach has packed it in and started digesting itself. Only one thing for it...chips from George's - open, with lots of salt and vinegar of course. Piping hot, full of flavour and bursting with badness. Just what a soggy blogger needs.

4.34pm Afternoon tea break

My most favourite food in the world at the moment...Ottolenghi's Cherry bread and butter pudding yummmmmeeerrrggggghhhhhhhhh

These are a few of my favourite things...

HAND HELD CHOPPER

I purchased this little friendly-faced gadget in France. It crushes nuts so efficiently it's enough to make a bloke squeamish. Easy to clean AND comes in my favourite colour.

These are a few of my favourite things...

ESTRELLA DILL CHIPS
I would rather give birth to a chair than go to IKEA again.
But there's no doubt in my mind that I'll revisit Hades, because I'll see something nifty in a their catalogue while I'm killing time at some one's house. Then I'll make the long trek out there by tube and bus, only to discover that there is only one of what I'm after left...and it looks like it has been thrown off the top the highest thing you can imagine.
If you also experience sadness and disappointment qualities whilst paying for the 200squid worth of stuff you didn't need, but bought because you didn't want to feel like you'd wasted part of your life going out there...
Chin up. Lug all that crap over to the Swedish food shop and get yourself some Dill chips/crisps or whatever the hell you want to call them.
It makes all the pain worthwhile. Well almost.





SILICONE PASTRY BRUSH
This has got to be the best silicone product on the market. Look at it! Ingenious!