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Polka Dot mac from Marks and Spencer<\/a><\/p>\n <\/center><\/p>\n Thanks for all the lovely comments about Jake. I really appreciate them.<\/p>\n Well I’ve done a bit of travelling since I last blogged. I went to London from Friday 9th until the 11th and stayed with my aunt. Managed a visit to the V&A<\/a> and looked at some of the fashion exhibits. I avoided the Kylie one. I could have booked tickets in advance but I just didn’t really fancy it. <\/p>\n I also saw Patrick Stewart in Anthony and Cleopatra<\/a> with my friends Sarah and Andy and Sarah’s sister Rachel. And met up with my old uni friend Mel, she of the fabulous yarn gifts from Tokyo. I became a bit ill during the second act of the play and managed to faint in my seat. I’m ok now though, I think it was a combination of flu lurgy from the previous week and the temperature in the theatre. <\/p>\n On Wednesday I went to Stratford for Valentine’s Day with the bf which was only slightly marred by discovering peas at the bottom of my lasagne at an Italian restaurant. I’m sure it’s a traditional thing in some parts of Italy but for someone who dislikes peas as much as I do it was a bit of a shock! The desert in the form of a deceptively small yet very filling lemon tart – it nearly killed me! – made up for it though.<\/p>\n In fact the lemon tart got me thinking about making one sometime. Although I enjoy cooking I had over the years got into the very lazy habit of just letting Andy cook everything, so now that I’m living on my own I’m of course cooking again. I’ve had some experiments with soups – one butternut squash soup was just too sweet so I won’t be making that again. A mushroom soup, and they can be so bland sometimes, was much more successful. In fact, dare I say it of my own cooking, but it was the best I’d ever tasted. <\/p>\n