I'm glad it's Friday

[white_hart]

I can't decide whether I'm (a) ridiculously knackered after only two days back at work; (b) coming down with something; or (c) going to die of eating porridge made with oats that were best before 24 November 2016* for breakfast.

Whichever it is, I'm glad it's the weekend.

* They weren't very nice, but by the time I realised how old they were I was irrevocably committed** to them.

** ie, had got to work and faced a stark choice between ancient porridge and no breakfast, as I hadn't bothered to go to the Co-op after swimming and buy anything else.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Oats can go a bit musty :o(

[white_hart]

Musty is exactly how I’d describe the taste. Even a copious application of golden syrup didn’t quite mask it.

[cosmolinguist]

Oh dear. :/ Probably shouldn't hurt you, though?

[white_hart]

No, I’m pretty sure they weren’t actually toxic. Just not very nice!

[cosmolinguist]

Musty oats does sound sad. But at least now you know to obtain nicer breakfast food in the future. :)

[mountainkiss]

I realise that this is only a helpful comment if she turns out to be right, but FWIW my mother, who is a specialist in these things, would be pretty sure that the oats will not hurt you.

[white_hart]

Apparently I am not as good as I thought I was at signalling humour. I wasn't actually worried that the oats would do me any serious harm!

[mountainkiss]

Alternatively I’m projecting - I would have been!

[nineveh_uk]

Hope you have a restful weekend! I think being back at work at this time of year is pretty knackering, it's still dark and cold and full of Stuff.

Emergency cereal bar stash for the desk drawer?

[white_hart]

Yes, I think it's just the darkness and coldness and ridiculous amounts to do. And I never find that the Christmas break has the sort of lasting effect that holidays where I actually go away have, probably because it doesn't leave memories to look back on and pictures I can use as my computer wallpaper.

I have a post-swimming breakfast routine, which involves going to the Co-op every Monday and buying a pain au chocolat and a pain au raisin for Monday's breakfast, and a 500ml pot of plain yoghurt and two bananas to have with muesli for Wednesday's and Friday's breakfasts (I buy more muesli as I need it), but when I'm only swimming once in a week I have to think outside the routine, and as I was walking back through the car park to the Banbury Road intending to go to the Co-op for...something...my brain helpfully reminded me that I had oats and could attempt porridge in the office microwave. (I did actually have a box of muesli as well, but I don't really like it with milk instead of yoghurt.)