BIT LATE TODAY!!

On the blog I mean. Mind you I seem to have been a bit late all morning thanks to getting stuck for the best part of an hour in traffic due to an accident near Gosforth. Annoyingly, I'd just past the Seaton Burn turnoff when everything ground to a halt. A few metres sooner and I could have avoided the hold up completely. Then, because I as running late, I decided to shop at Asda in Gosforth instead of swinging into Morpeth as I usually do. This was a mistake on two fronts. 1) I don't know the store layout sufficiently well to be able to whizz round (I write my Morrisons list in store order!) and 2) Having chosen the shortest queue I ended up behind the woman who wanted to buy the last Barbie pink folder in the store and for which there was no product details at all, resulting in endless searches and consultations and culminating in an executive decision from Mr Store Manager himself who let her have it for 50p. This took about twenty minutes to resolve (Could have been into Morpeth in less time) and the woman who was causing the hold up at no point apologised to anyone in the queue for keeping them waiting. Grrrrrr!! Anyway, I'm back home now and have batches of bakewells and brownies in the oven, with scones lined up for the next oven slot. Chilli is mixed and marinading ready for when James and Claire come round later. AND - I reached a loaf out of the freezer last night that I'd made a few weeks ago and forgotten all about. It's a cinnamon and walnut loaf and I've just had a thick sliced toasted with a cappuccino - and it was heavenly!!! Unfortunately I can't really remember how I made it as I think it was sort of a recipe that went wrong - but ended up so right!