2 posts tagged “lazy”

Molasses Cookies.  Warm from the oven, soft & slightly chewy.  The aroma, the taste, the feel . . . . .

MolassesCookies

If I weren't feeling so lazy with my trying to become a head cold head, I'd make some.  Then again, I could just go and read the paper and have a pear.  *frown*

Home Sweet Home .  .  .  .

Back from our week near Cromer - well rested, slightly uncomfortable, a few more possessions, a few less quid and lots of photos to sort through.

The barn conversion we stayed at is one of many owned by the same family.  They are lovely, always clean and neat with most anything you could possibly need or want provided.  The only real gripe we have, and have had with the other conversion we'd stayed in before, is the lounge seating.  It's simply torturous.  In this conversion (I think the other was the same) it was two, two seater sofa's - one having a 'sofa bed' that you can fold out if needed.  They are the most uncomfortable things I've ever experienced.  Rock hard toward the outside of the cushions (using term loosely), and then about 6 inches in from the outer (arm) edge they just start sinking and keep sinking until both seating cushions meet in the middle, probably a few inches from the floor.  Fine if you sit directly in the middle - just not for too long.  Sounds picky I'm sure, but when you've planned a few days "in" just vegging/watching rubbish tv/reading it's more than slightly disappointing.  The week's holiday was a gift from the IL's - so I don't mean to sound like I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, but after seeing that it isn't just the one cottage with this problem I wouldn't book here again if I were booking for myself - my dodgy back can't take it.

Of course there was the obligatory touristy shopping excursions.  The BH and I like the eclectic type of small shops, we call them Hippy shops :-D .  You know the ones.  In even the smallest ones you can usually find lots of incense, a few candles, some tarot cards, a Buddha or two, some sort of 'precious' stones/crystals and possibly a selection of soothing/meditation music.  Thing is, you really never know what you'll find in these sorts of places and every now and then - when you least expect it - you find something really, truly unique.  Whenever we're out and about in a new place we always look for this sort of shop.  Some towns/villages don't have a single one, while others have what seems to be a "Hippy Section" with several of them in a sort of cluster.  So yes, there were a few *ahem* purchases during the week, mostly stuff for the home, laptrays - kitchen goodies etc.  Thus the few *ahem, again* less quid.  Oh, and of course I had to make a trip to my most favourite shop in the area - Bakers and Larners.  Heaven for a kitchen gadget/goodie junkie like myself!

Lots of photos.  Yep.  BH will have more than I as he went out on two days when I decided to stay in for a lazy day and fight with the sofas, lol.  I've got mine transferred onto the Vaio now and will probably spend a good part of tomorrow sorting through and uploading to here and Flickr. 

Off now to see what my neighbourhood has been up to here on Vox, and then to catch up on a few other things online before logging off and getting back to the real world.  :-)

First things first, coffee and a biccy.  Just to keep the strength up, don't you know!  ;-D