Friday was 4 ethics classes, followed by online board games night. I also went out to the local pizza place for dinner with my wife and Scully. They have a new pizza on the menu—peri peri chicken—and I decided to try it this time. It was pretty good! The owner chatted with us during our meal and he said that many customers had been asking for a peri peri chicken pizza, so he had decided to listen to them and add it. He was pleased that I liked it.
So I was a bit late joining in on the games. We played Just One, and Can’t Stop Express, and then the others started getting tired and left early.
This morning I did a 5k run, my first one since last Saturday since I’ve been nursing the pulled muscle in my side. But it’s better now and I was keen to hit the road again. Also, the weather has turned and the string of hot and humid days has finally broken. Yesterday and today were much more pleasant at around 25°C. And it was a cool 18°C in the morning when I went for my run, which was a nice change and made it significantly less exhausting.
I cleaned the house while my wife took Scully to the local farmer’s market. She returned with a couple of scones, big heavy ones from a local baker. We had some a few weeks ago and they are very filling. I lamented then that we only had jam and no cream (since we don’t normally have cream in the fridge). But this week I had cream! Because of Thursday’s grocery shopping dilemma when I was under the minimum online order total and had to add some more items, and I added ingredients to make a decadent dessert.
So I whipped up the cream and had my scone with apricot jam (we don’t have a jar of the regulation strawberry at the moment, but apricot is fine) and whipped cream. Not quite the same as clotted cream, but decent enough. It was delicious, and so filling that it was essentially my lunch.
Then I used the remainder of the whipped cream, folded in some mascarpone and chocolate liqueur, and layered it with Arnott’s Choc Ripple biscuits to make my own variation on the classic choc ripple cake recipe.
This afternoon I spent much of the time pulling out Magic: the Gathering cards from various storage boxes to make a couple of collections to send to buyers. Two people want to get an assortment of common and cheap cards. We negotiated details during the week and now I went through and collated cards to make up two packages, one being 1kg of cards, the other 2kg of cards – less some for the weight of packaging to keep the total weight under those postage limits. I won’t make a lot of money from these sales, but it’s worth it to get rid of some of these bulk cards and regain some storage space!
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