What's for dinner?

We had a load of veg in which needed using. Living with an Italian, a minestrone was an obvious (and healthy) choice. We had half a head of sweetheart cabbage, a handful of new potatoes, some bedraggled french beans and plenty of shallots and mushrooms. We've pretty much always got carrots and celery in the fridge and peas and baby broad beans in the freezer. Add to that little lot, a packet of pancetta, a few bay leaves, a squeeze of tomato puree, a splash of white wine and a load of water, boil it for an hour or so and Bob's your uncle.

So, what goes with soup? Why, bread of course! I cheat a little when I make bread. I've a bread maker so I tend to let it make the dough for me. Today I made sesame and caraway rolls and pesto, sundried tomato and olive tear-and-share.

Grub's up!

How can a day off work mean I've no time for creativity?!

Yesterday was a bit frustrating. I'd taken the day off work because I had a few little jobs I wanted to get done. I had hoped that it would also allow me a little time to do some more crafty or creative stuff. But my failure to see exactly how many "little jobs" I had to do and how long they would take meant that I didn't get any time to do creative things at all!

So, this morning I was determined to get the creativity in good and early! I wanted to do a more permanent version of the Dessy Weather sketch I drew the other day. On opening my sketch book, I found a couple of cartoons I'd done a few months ago.

This first was an idea which came to me and I sketched very quickly, but never really developed (I really should one day).

And this one is another cat-themed one. (Um... I like cats quite a lot. In fact, I'm probably borderline crazy-cat-lady.)

And finally, here's the developed Dessy Weather cartoon.