what if I end up with the almond one?

The other day I got e-mailed a voucher from Starbucks for a free petite if you buy a coffee based beverage valid for today...

So I walked into Starbucks clutching my voucher still contemplating which petite I should go for...

I was thinking do I go for a cake pop or a whoopie pie?

As it happened the bloke in front of me had a voucher too...

...then the strangest thing happened...

...he didnt get asked what petite he wanted he just got handed a brown paper bag - he looked in the bag and said thanks...

I was then thinking to myself "what if I get an almond one?" I hate almonds :o( although for some reason I love marzipan - go figure ;o).

Anyhow I order my drink hand over my voucher get given my brown paper bag - I joked with the barista that they are well organised by having the free petites ready bagged (whilst quietly seething that I wasnt able to chose which one I wanted)...

I peered in the bag and saw that I had a rocky road cake pop as luck would have that was the exact one I wanted ;o)

pancake (yester) day

Yesterday was Pancake Day, and I went the semi lazy route and bought ready made pancake batter (if I had gone ultra lazy then I would have bought them ready made...).

I buy the ready made pancake mix to stop James from moaning about the mess I make (hasnt he ever heard of someone being creative?).

Anyhow armed with my ready made mix I made myself 2 pancakes (I can hear you saying "thats not too bad") but LOL I did use half of the batter (I think it was a pint of mix so theoretically each pancake used up a quarter of a pint ;o)).

I even tried to be healthy by putting a chopped up peach in one but I did drizzle golden syrup on both ;o)

new drink new cup new logo

The nice manager in my local Starbucks has been teasing me for the past week and a half about the new drink and food coming out but wouldnt divulge (despite my begging and grovelling and promises of undying custom) what the new things would be...

Today all of our speculation came to an end...

...the new drink is a cocoa cappuccino, and yes I tried one ;o)

I just got a tall one in case I didnt like it...

I did like it but I wont get it as my main drink I will probably have it as my second drink.

It has a mocha taste to it (which I can still taste now).

They also had the new food in too...

...LOL I have already told James that he is going to have to sacrifice his almond croissant on Saturday so I can try 2 new things ;o)

he looks more goonish in person

Me and James have been watching Cookery School...

Last week there was a bloke called Robert, James thought that he was simple but I had a soft spot for him...

When they were doing their end of the day synopsis Gizzie referred to him as enthusiastic but useless...

...I was really hoping that they would keep Robert in, James wanted them to boot him out - they listened to James and not me!

It then struck me that the reason that I liked Robert was because he reminded me of James (what with being enthusiastic but useless and everything) - when I told him this he got quite indignant saying that he wasnt that bad!

Anyhow I have enjoyed spending the day or rather the weekend telling him how I have heard people referring to him as "that Robert from Cookery School" and how one person (reportedly said) that "he looked more goonish in person".

LOL for some reason James is currently in a sulk ;o)

why cant we have both?

I saw on the cover of todays Metro this article that they are thinking of moving the May Day Bank Holiday to either St Georges Day the 23rd April or Trafalgar Day the 21st October.

By all means move May Day because lets face it we have too many of our bank holidays all squashed together on the calendar what with Easter (by far one of my favourite holidays because of the chocolates that am able to eat without James having a pop at me) being at the end of April this year then the following week we have May Day then four weeks later we have Whitsun.

But why oh why oh why cant we have both St Georges Day and Trafalgar Day?  We have the fewest Bank Holidays like anywhere and having one extra will improve morale LOL it will improve mine anyway ;o)

a glut from down under

Someone at Watch has been buying up (what I guess are cheap) cookery shows from Australia & New Zealand...

It started with Masterchef Australia I thought their rehash of the format really worked - I even preferred it to the UK version (which they have since hashed to make it more like the Australian version and James now hates the new version of it).

We have had two series of Masterchef Australia which I thoroughly enjoyed ;o)

Then a few weeks ago came Masterchef New Zealand - we sky plussed it (so if you know who won please dont let the cat out of the bag), we watched the first episode last night...

...incidentally I was totally gobsmacked to see Ross Burden as one of the judges (he looks really haggered now).

Anyway now onto the reason for this post...

Watch have now just started showing the first season of Junior Masterchef Australia, with Gary and George still being two of the judges, they are both really warm people and they totally make the show what it is...

In the junior series their enthusiasm has increased to what was a six upto a eighteen (and yes I am talking out of ten here).  This was all too much for poor James and he exclaimed (after a girl managed to melt a plastic ramekin (she filled it with cake mix then put it in the oven) while making a chocolate cake - and Gary gave her a hug and helped her save the dessert she was making) that I could watch this series on my own...

Paris syndrome

This morning whilst giving me a lift to the station James said that he heard something on QI that would explain everything...

...he wouldnt tell me what it was but promised (on a stack of crunchy nut cornflakes no less) to look it up to see if it was true when he got to work - whilst not disagreeing with Stephen Fry...

LOL I ended up having to send him a gentle reminder (hmmmmm I wonder what will happen to his cereal in that case?)...

...and he sent me this...

...does this mean that James is a closet Japanese?