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Bakewell.......well...well....well....

We couldn't go out yesterday.
There was just too much weather about.
Cold, snow, ice......all that good stuff.
So, Alan got busy and made a Bakewell Tart.
Picture above.
Brilliant isn't it!!!
Even more brilliant because no one over here has ever heard of them and so they are totally not available in the shops.
Philip was really chuffed.

We did manage to go out for dinner when Philip came home.  Alan wanted to buy us dinner at The Olive Garden but there is usually too long a wait.
The last few times we have tried to go we have been told the wait for a table would be about an hour and a half.
You cannot book there either.
So, we always give up and go somewhere else.
Even during the week it is just as busy.  The food there is excellent and reasonably priced.
For once the weather worked to our advantage.  It must have stopped a lot of people venturing out and we were seated straight away.
It was lovely.  We all really enjoyed it.
Thank you Alan for the treat.

Tomorrow we are meant to be going to the ice hockey.
I like going but it is meant to be even colder tomorrow and I dread even walking from the car park.  We shall have to wear our thermals I think.

I don't know how Eric holds on in this weather.
His little tootsies must be frozen but he still manages to hang upside down to eat the bird seed.
I have been keeping this filled up all the time as well as putting out corn cobs for the Erics (squirrels).  Arnie, the possum, is also fed every night along with the raccoon. 
I think they probably eat more than me.

posted by Sue Banks @ 12:23 PM