Monday, April 21, 2008

Spring weekend

This weekend we had a lovely time. We've subscribed to LOVEFILM.com and received our first film. A French one called La Brodeuse or in English 'A common thread'. It had the most wonderful female lead with flaming red hair who always wore green. There were some beautiful scenes of her beading a fabulous garment for a couturier. There is more to it but I won't bore you with it here.
Richard spent Saturday at the boat and returned home tired & cold so I cooked up a feast for us.....Moussaka, purple sprouting broccoli and rhubarb & apple meringue tart.
On Sunday we went to visit our friends the Man's over at Manor Barns.
The fog lifted and it was time for a bath ...... well maybe not quite warm enough yet.and then a walk to the river. The sun shone, the birds sang and finally we took off our coats.

6 comments:

skips said...

There is a bakery here that sells meringue pies- lemon, apple peach. It'a a very unlikely place to find such delicasies.

Anonymous said...

have re-found the blog! kept searching for joey jo jo... not joeyjojo??
aaaanyhoooooo. here i am, will check in all regular like now.

ps. how do you make it look so easy with the fancy cooking..... i tried to make banana bread and it turned out like pudding.... too wet i guess..

JoeyJoJo said...

Hooray Roxi. So glad to have you back. The cooking thang was helped along by 10 years of working in restaurants and deli's.
Amy, Yum. Eat as many as you can and let me know which one was best. xxxxxxx

Anonymous said...

..... your lovely sister spent a good few hours at my place on the weekend, fixing my pants and giving me all sorts of marvellous baking tips! though i dont fancy creaming butter and sugar with a fork again, so im waiting to buy a new mixer before i make another attempt...

JoeyJoJo said...

Yay. What a nice thought, the two of you creaming butter and sugar with a fork and laughing. xxxx

suez said...

the family is getting together from all over the world through the magic of the net!!....WOW so amazing.