Monday 20th March - lazy suppers

 I am constantly amused when I read Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries. n one entry he is casually knocking up a 'simple supper' (several main ingredients, a dozen spices, one hour's soaking time, three hour's resting time, bake for several hours, basting every twenty minutes or so... maybe I am exaggerating just a teeny weeny bit) and then we get an entry like March 3rd;  

 

We had baked beans on toast for supper last night.

I notice that the weather in March - 2014, was it? - was just as grim (if you dislike cold as much as I do) as it is was this year.

I have bought lined trousers, normally phenomenally expensive from this particular manufacturer -Rohan - but nearly half price in the sale. Oh bliss. I should have done this weeks ago, when my proper size might still have been in stock - they had my size (not telling) but not 'short'. So I am wearing them with massive turn-ups while I give some thought to how to do something more permanent. The money is well spent - We both still wear items bought from Rohan ten or even twenty years ago.