B.H. Monday

Douglas got back early on Monday morning – I sent him a text at about 9am asking him when he would be home.. and got one back almost immediately saying “come outside and kiss me!” What a nice surprise.

He had a lovely weekend, but as is the norm with the Pagan camps Ive been to, the facilities are somewhat lacking, so the first thing he did was jump in the shower, to get back to being his normal fragrant self. I decontaminated his clothes in the washing machine too ;-)

We had been invited to my younger brothers for a BBQ, and were asked to bring pudding with us for 9 of us. Him and his wife and 3 kids, our parents and us. I decided on something that was nice and easy.. Eton Mess. It’s a bit calorific, but it went down very well with everyone apart from little Carlo (aged 4) who looked at it and refused even to try some!

Eton Mess

Raspberries
Double Cream
Meringue

For 9 of us, I used 4 small punnets of raspberries, a whole box of meringues, and two tubs of cream.. one huge and one large.

Whip the cream until it reaches soft peak consistency, and whilst your trusty machine is doing that, break up the meringues into little bits.

Fold the cream, bit by bit into the raspberry and meringues, blob it out into a dish, and serve within about a hour. Keep it all in the fridge until you serve it.

After lunch, everyone apart from Douglas went to the local park that was having a heritage day. We were up there for about 3 hours, and I was totally exhausted by the time we got back. It was probably a good thing that Douglas decided to stay at my brothers and rest!