I would drink my coffee and chat to my Mum.
I would get ready and go out to buy ingredients for a semolina cake and tonight's dinner.
I would come back to the flat and make a slice of toast topped with a smear of soft goats' cheese, leeks, a fried egg.
I would bake a cake and sit in the sun. I would enjoy the strange but lovely sight of the London skyline with not a plane in sight and no vapour trails hanging above. I would try, but find it hard, to reconcile the images of a big swirling cloud of ash with today's lovely reality of clear blue sky and warm sun.
I would eat a slice of cake and drink some mint tea.
I would make dinner and we would drink prosecco.
But then something happened.
I spoke to my Mum and went shopping. I bought big bunches of mint, parsley and dill. I went to buy milk and some yoghurt and that's when I stopped in my tracks.
Asparagus. Lots and lots of asparagus.
In less time than it takes to say 'first asparagus of the season' my lunch plans had changed and a bunch of asparagus was in my basket.
Goodbye toast, goodbye leeks, goodbye cheese, goodbye fried eggs. Hello plate full of asparagus with melted butter.
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Spring, you are properly here at last.
6 comments:
The best laid plans you see. I wonder if unexpected asparagus is even more delicious than expected asparagus. Even the Funny Italians agree English asparagus is wonderful. Yes, what images.
I think it must be Rachel. On Friday night I was talking about asparagus with a friend and said I thought I may have a week or so to wait yet so the surprise when I saw it was so sweet, it made my day.
Gemma x
Yay! At last!
My thought exactly Shanna!
Gemma x
First asparagus of the season! No way you could say no to that. Yum!
Exactly!
Gemma x
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