On Saturday we made our way to the Bryanston Organic Market, what a wonderful experience, we bought organic cheese, pate's and bread to have for dinner that night. Grant picked a really neat looking espresso maker and I managed to get the most divine Soy Candles, they burn at a much lower temperature than normal wax and are rich with vitamin e and essential oils, so when you burn the candles you use the melted wax to massage into your body. I also snapped up a lovely wheat coloured cardi/hoodie. We stopped there for lunch and I ordered a Masala Dosa, I have never had one before but it was really delicious, kind of crisp pancake with curried potatoes rolled up inside with two dips to go along with it. Would definitely recommend. We then popped into hospital to visit my little sister who was having her appendix out. Shame she is having a torrid time, this being her third operation in a year. She seemed absolutely fine but that turned out to be the pethidine speaking as she was really under the weather the following day. When we got home, we tried out the espresso maker, it works really well (if you like espresso, I think it is just vile). I then made a pumpkin pie for the first time, lo and behold it actually worked out and looked and tasted great. On Sunday the weather was grim but we had my in-laws over for dinner, I however was feeling grim and ended up having to go to the doctor on Monday. Feeling ill is just for the birds
Jordy left for Gabarone on Thursday, leaving Grant and I to our own devices. This Friday's weather was grim, I mean, worst of Scottish weather grim, so for dinner I made chicken noodle soup with chicken meatballs. It appears Jewish people are on to something special as it really did warm the soul. Definitely a keeper. Saturday weather was just as grim, so Grant didn't go riding, I took the opportunity to take him out for brunch. We stopped off at a fish shop recommended to me by my friend Inez and picked up prawns, muscles and monk fish for Good Friday. Then went out for brunch where we bumped into friends we hadn't seen in a while, so they joined us.
On the Sunday Grant and I went to John Dory at Monte Casino for lunch, when we were done there we went and got ice creams then went to Scoobs, a divine book store very reminiscent of the books stores in New York, it is three stories high, has a live pianist playing background music, has a coffee lounge on the ground floor and a champagne bar on the top floor, what more could a girl ask for. I actually became quite melancholy thinking that there is a strong possibility that my grandchildren may very well not ever get to experience a bookstore, what with ebook readers. I read an article recently that stated that for the first time e book sales out sold paper books in March, although I adore my kindle and love the ease of obtaining and reading books. The thought of books going the same way as LP Records just makes me feel sad. Anywho, we then passed a place called Yume that Cally had told us about so we popped in there and had some sushi, even though we had already had lunch. Their sushi is delicious and so are their dim sum, We felt like huge piggies by the time we finished and rolled our way to the car. Was a lovely day and overall a really stunning weekend. (I must add as a disclaimer that we didn't have any dinner that night, so were slightly exonerated from the piggie title) Till next time
xoxo 
Home made chicken noodle soup, yum
Scoobs
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