Goodbye, Mr David Tennant, We Wish You Well!

Picture the scene:New Years Day
The time: 6:40pm
The programme: Dr Who
The kids: excited and expectant
The parents: times 10
The snacks: home made white loaf, jam, Parmesan, garlic and thyme hearthbread, pesto, Nudo lemon oil and sapa, roasted tomatoes and smoky bacon crisps!

We made it a picnic and snuggled under blankets together to watch the lovely Scottish man's last episode. Goodbye, Mr David Tennant; you will forever be a part of my wee 'un's childhood and for that I thank you. Adieu; we shall miss you.

The picnic....

Oh, gimme! Parmesan bread topped with lemon oil, roasted tomatoes and a drizzling of fresh pesto.


Nudo Lemon Oil with Nudo Sapa and Maldon sea salt, pesto and those roasted tomatoes.


I always feel we should have lashings of ginger beer when we have bread, butter and jam....


The presentation is obviously not the thing....


Nudo extra virgin olive oil with lemons and Traditional Italian Sapa...a welcome gift from my mum; just discovered and really lovely. I'm reading the book 'The Dolce Vita Diaries' about how this family business got started. More on this story later!

French Onion Soup....not.

Blogger can kiss my......ahem. I'm rather annoyed. I spent an hour posting my French Onion soup recipe with pictures and despite saving every few minutes or so, booger...sorry, blogger threw my efforts into the ether to be consumed by greedy, evil net demons. I want to splat someone with a bowlful....virtually of course. It's too late to repost, my vision starts to go around 11.30am and the very small glass of red wine has kicked in, so it'll have to be tomorrow.

In the meantime, I received a blogger award.....yeah!, I hear some of you cry.... bugger off, Helen McGobby, I hear the rest of you cry, this French onion soup is never going to happen, is it, you wee Scottish... person.....from my lovely friend over at AC's Scrapbook. The award is the Honest Scrap Award and I am obliged, therefore, to list 10 honest things about my wee self.

1. It's already taken me 10 minutes to think up two honest facts about myself; is that because I've already told you everything?
2. I'm happy turning 40; it's another year closer to the kids growing up and having their mum around...
3. ...my biggest fear is not being around for my kids whilst they are still young. But we all have that fear, don't we?
4. Despite my reputation to the contrary which in this country, isn't a bad thing, I really don't drink that much at all.
5. I never feel intimidated by other people which isn't always a good thing as I've found out to my peril.
6. I don't like going to the cinema with friends incase I have to silence kill them for talking; this is the only time you will see evil in my eyes.
7. I'm really, really scared of the Daleks. *shiver*
8. I check under my pillow for spiders every night. Once, Brian placed a little picture under there of a wee spider with a speech bubble saying "Boo!" and a big stupid smile on it's face. A little bit of Brian died that night....
9. I won the lottery...all six numbers once. For two minutes, I was a multi-millionaire. Unfortunately, it was an April Fools Joke by my quite-frankly-I'm-surprised-he-is-still-alive husband who expertly pulled it off. Oh yes.
10. I jump out of my skin at least three times a day, much to the amusement of my family; always ready to fight and defend, you see.