baked bean bath – boy he must have bean cold
Unusually we are entertaining this weekend. I like this. The MacDougals are up Friday night for a 60th birthday bash and are swinging by for breakfast on Saturday morning. Paige is also coming.
Sunday lunchtime we have some friends coming – Jason and Annabel and kids plus Sue and Carolyn. I am cooking a beef stew on Saturday and leaving it overnight for the flavour to develop.
I expect you will hear more about these meals over the next couple of days but because I know you are interested I offer you the shopping list:
General
- Texas bbq pizza
- Grapes
- Coleslaw
- Flavoured rice
- Spring onions
- Butter
- Pesto
- Capers
- W5 rinse aid
- Medium toothbrushes
breakfast
- bacon
- cumberland sausages or curtis’ spicy lincolnshire sausages
- Eggs
- chestnut mushrooms
- croissants (buy first thing saturday)
- orange juice
- bread
- tinned toms
- anne to sort banana pancakes
- blueberries
- maple syrup
sunday lunch
- beef – 5 lb chuck steak
- bacon
- onions
- celery
- garlic
- beef stock
- 2 beers
- carrots
- turnips
- green beans
- waitrose blanc bread
- blue cheese
- custard
- cream
I got most of the stuff from LIDL, the beef and a few bits from Waitrose and the pizza from Tesco. Note no baked beans on the list. I did think about buying some but wasn’t sure whether we had any in. This is an appropriate lead in to the featured image and the video below.
I like to take a photo every day to accompany these posts. Gives them a bit of colour innit. Videos are also useful and I envisage that on some occasions the video is all you will get. When I’m doing the coast to coast for example where I may well be too knackered to write anything and where there may not be any connectivity to upload stuff even if I did.
So today a perfect photo opportunity presented itself on the way into Tesco. A bloke sat in a bath of baked beans. He was raising money for the British Heart Foundation. Solid bloke.
I once bought a guitar from the British Heart Foundation Shop in Fareham. We were passing one evening coming back from a curry and saw it in the window. The problem was the shop we wouldn’t be around when the shop opened. We were visiting a company called Newnet who we had just acquired. The barman at the hotel agreed to nip round during the day and purchase the instrument. I gave him £25 (actually I think it was Ben White’s cash).
You can imagine the impression we made on the engineers at Newnet when I brought the guitar along to the restaurant for dinner that night and had a singson after the meal. It was a crappy guitar actually but did the job.
The one thing that didn’t occur to me to ask the man in the bath was what sort of baked beans were they? Couldn’t see any branding anywhere but it’s the question of the hour! Yesterday’s featured image was purely a coincidence and not sourced from the bath!
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