There is a storm rippling around us at the moment.  For a while, I was sitting in the almost dark, typing on here, listening to the thunder roll.  Today has been a wonderful day, in which I have felt blessed and loved.  We went to the Environment Day in the Walks, a park near us.  R, AC, Charlie-Paul and his girls.  I made a simple picnic of ham sandwiches, homemade cake, homemade choc-chip biscuits, crisps and squash. 

Utterly Fabulous Day! So life is good. Yesterday afternoon, after a brief spat with 3mobile, we went back into town.  As of next Tuesday I will have one of these phones http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/August2006/3443.htm Or possibly it's more updated brother.  3 have a different name for it slightly, but this is what it was!

It's been weird since R got back safely.  It's been good, don't get me wrong, but yesterday I worked out why it was weird.  I've been worried about him almost constantly for almost 3 years.  In fact, just over 3 years, since his marriage started to fall apart and so many lies were told about him. I digress.

This recipe is a glorious Nigel Slater recipe, I found whilst stooging the net late one night.  It would be almost physically impossible without a food mixer (I love my Kenwood!) and I've had to change the chocolate to lower cocoa solids.  Ok, I changed the chocolate involved to Tesco Value Dark Chocolate.  I'm not made of money, and at only 30% cocoa solids I might be actually able to taste this.  I used ordinary caster sugar as well, and where it says . tsp of baking powder I used half a tsp as a best guess, as I had used self raising flour.

Today was a long and slightly weird day.  It was a good day, it was a very emotional day, it was everything it should have been. Today we said out final goodbyes to Grandma's mortal remains at the Crematoriam at 10am, and then lunch at church at 12, Service of Celebration at 2.30, then tea and cake afterwards.