February

This is from a while back - I just never posted it!

Dr Who. Is coming. To France.

I went to the cinema a bunch of times.

Ben & Jerry's Fairly nuts. If you do not have a nut allergy, this has to be tried! It is sublime! When we went to the cinema on Monday I mentioned they were selling mini tubs of Ben & Jerry's and Kathryn looked at me and said the singular most distressing sentence I've ever heard in my LIFE: "I've never had Ben & Jerry's".

So this Thursday I thought I'd buy some to take to the prayer group. I went to Monoprix, being fairly convinced I'd seen it there before and finally found two flavours hidden at the top at the back of the freezers, they were absolutely covered in frost but I could make out that one was "Cookie Dough" and one was "Fairly Nuts". Those of you who have ice-cream binged with me before will know that I am truly a "Chocolate Fudge Brownie" girl at heart and truth be told a large part of my enthusiasm died away when I saw that they did not stock it. Now I do like Cookie Dough but it is rather sickly to start off with (yes, I am aware of the irony of using that as an excuse when I was looking for Chocolate Fudge Brownie) and Fairly Nuts was not only something new to try (and we know that this was a safe new: Ben & Jerry would never manufacture a yucky ice-cream. Oh though they do do something with banana in. That's bad. But I'd forgotten that at the time. I was more thinking of that minty one they did one year - they really ought to bring that back) but it was also fairtrade (I'm doing the world a favour in buying it - it would practically be a crime not to buy it), whereas Cookie Dough was not.

Thus I made my decision and came to the prayer group armed with a fresh tub of as yet untasted ice-cream.

What followed was beautiful and I can only say that unless you suffer from a life-threatening aversion to nuts, you absolutely have to go out and buy a tub right now. It is sweet, crunchy goodness straight from heaven.

Actually, come to think of it this week has been a bit of a nuts-fest. (Ok, well I ate something else containing nuts. I guess that doesn't qualify as a nuts-fest unless you have REALLY low festival standards, which evidently I do so that's ok! Anyway, the point was) I tried Boursin "Figues et noix" which when accompanied by fresh butter of fresh bread really is quite superb. I also ate tabouleh, some outrageously good tasting possibly sundried/roasted with delicious herbs cherry tomatoes and olives and garlic and goat's cheese. Every night for tea.

It's been a good week.

Also, my pain au chocolats and croissants have been oven fresh every morning this week - this is quite possibly the greatest February of my life!

And every time I walk past the florist on my way to anywhere I'm hit by the heady scent of hyacinths which they've covered the front of their shop with!