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Jubilee Tuesday

Posted on 2012/06/06 08:11:40 (June 2012).

[Tuesday 5th June 2012]
Funny how these things turned out - of the four days of the long Jubilee weekend, the day when we had the least planned ended up being the nicest.

After a lazy morning, I unusually for a "weekend" lunch decided to make a quick batch of Quorn chilli, which we strangely ate with some of the leftover Middle Eastern bread from our recent Eurovision party (we had frozen the bulk of it). Following that, we headed out for the afternoon, as I was keen to try for a second time to buy a summery jacket, particularly now thinking that I needed some appropriate attire for our upcoming trip to Venice.

Naturally we aimed for Jermyn Street, and I was pleased to find a good few of the shops there open despite it being a bank holiday. I looked at and tried on quite a few jackets, but the only one I really loved as soon as I put it on was a herringbone cotton jacket in Hackett. It was also the most expensive of all the ones I tried. Having worked hard the last few weeks I somehow managed to convince myself I'd earned it, but still felt compelled to haggle a bit, and was quite pleased with myself when I got them to knock 10% off.

After that, Chie said she fancied a scone, so we decided to head into Fortnum and Mason, which we timed rather perfectly as unusually when we arrived there was barely any queue. For the sake of variety I ordered a slice of cake rather than scones - and went rather unadventurously for the Victoria sponge, without really expecting much of it. I was a surprise hit - I really didn't think I could enjoy a simple slice of Victoria songe as much as this. The tea was very good too - good old F&M.

Headed back home after that. Had a strange sort of dinner which was akin to an indoor picnic. Chie wanted to try Picalilli, so we'd picked up a jar of that in F&M, as well as some cheese in Paxton & Whitfield. I also made some coronation Quorn, which seemed like an appropriate sort of thing for a Jubilee weekend.