Tuesday 5th May - unexpected item in bread machine

 Namely, this;

I don't  know how that happened! That sad mixture of bread flour, yeast (new packet, reliable brand) salt, sugar, butter and water, all measured and added in the right order  produced that. It really was inedible, amd is now in the compost bin where the worms will eventually conceal the evidence. 

BB cleaned the bread machine and made another loaf, meticulously weighing and measuring everything.

It tastes excellent too; we've just had bacon sandwiches for supper.

(Lunch, if you are interested, was Nigella Lawson's spaghetti with tinned sardines, much nicer than it sounds!)

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BB went out to try and book a haircut. The usual place, by our corner shop, has disappeared so he went to a place ge had been to before. Lo and behold, they could do him straight away, and I hardly recognised him. The haircut was very overdue, and he looks so much smarter!

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When he got back, we went straight out to post today's postcard. I managed to push past my natural inclination to have a day off, and once I found my (rather slow!) stride, I discovered that we'd got home much sooner, stopped less frequently and I'd only used half a cylinder! This improvement is a great encouragement. Thank you, Rustic Pumpkin, for inspiring me to get walking again! She's walking to raise money for Parkinsons UK, so do visit if you'd like to donate.

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Here's some unexpected Star Wars....