We have come to the end of another weekend. It is relaxing to think that the schools go back tomorrow after two weeks holiday and I don't have to be there. I seem to be so busy these days that I cannot for the life of me figure out how I ever had time to work before. How did I spend the weekend?
Friday was a cooking day and very satisfying it was too. We had invited Norma and Roger for dinner. Roger used to be in the Navy and he and Richard get on really well, and Norma is one of the dancers. Sadly her son died earlier this year, in Australia, so she hasn't been at dancing for a while and I haven't seen much of her lately. I had decided to do courgette soup, but infortunately could only get two courgettes in the village! Not unusual, but not enough. Then I remembered a recipe for two soups in one bowl, preferably a green and a red. You pour them simultaneously from jugs either side of the soup plate and when the two soups meet they don't mix but stay as though the plate is in two halves. It really looks amazing and has the wow factor at a dinner party. The soups I made were fairly thick. I don't think it would work if they were thin. (I made tomato with mint and courgette with peas -recipes on request) For the main course I did salmon en croute with a spinach and water cress stuffing and the dessert was homemade - yes home made chocolate cake as mentioned in my previous blog. We ate one quarter...yummy but rich. The rest is in the freezer and will be my entry for the chocolate cake competition at the WRI next month. A very pleasant stress-free evening.
Saturday was quite a lazy day and I spent time reading the weekend papers, wrote a few emails, went on line and bought tickets for the Russian ballet doing the Nutcracker in Pitlochry, and also for an am-dram play the following week, Paras o'er the Barras, did a bit of ironing, made a curry, and watched a bit ot telly while waiting for our B&B guests to arrive. They were coming from Manchester and we were expecting them at 6pm but they phoned to say they had been in a traffic jam for three and a half hours and would not arrive until 10pm. Poor things. But the good thing was we put the clocks back last night so we all managed an extra hour in bed. Sunday, after serving breakfast, I did a stint at the castle. It was quite quiet today...well the weather was awful and it is getting quite late in the season. I had one group, consisting of 3 young American students, an Austrian couple, and a couple from Shetland. They all said they enjoyed the tour. I am really enjoying doing it too. Did a few odd dance related jobs this afternoon and then tonight was the auditions for the panto!!!! There is a really strong cast this year. A lot of the teenagers are good singers and quite confident speakers...and none of them are the 'naughty' sort. They are all quite well behaved and take the matter seriously. I would not like John's job now, deciding who is getting what part. I am really not worried if I don't get a speaking part. I would be happy to do choreography. So we shall see. We may know tomorrow but we may not find out until the read through on Tuesday. So that was the weekend that was. I am planning to do some writing tomorrow...the short story that I am half way through, and a synopsis of the Jacobite project.
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