Saturday discussion post: small pleasures (51/365)

[white_hart]

I really like pain au raisin, but T doesn't like raisins, and supermarket pain au raisin only come in packs of two and I don't necessarily want two at once, so although we often have pastries for breakfasts at weekends I hadn't had a pain au raisin since before lockdown started*. I mentioned this in a chat with my swimming friends and it turned out that L had exactly the same issue, so she brought pain au raisin for a post-swim snack today.



It may have been only a supermarket pastry, eaten out of the packet while sitting on the muddy bank of a lake in a public park** but it was so lovely to have something I haven't been able to have for nearly a year.

What small things have been making your life a bit better lately?

*I can't remember exactly when I had my last one. I do remember trying to buy one in Gail's on the Friday morning after my last swim in the pool, when I'd picked up some shopping and was heading to the office to collect my chair before going home to work, but they didn't have any and I had to have a cinnamon bun which was nice, but not the same.

**And it was probably a bit closer to an illegal picnic than my normal Tunnocks caramel wafer

Comments

[cmcmck]

Although as we know after the Derbyshire police episode, the 'illegal picnic' stuff is a load of hooey!

Fwiw,the pain au raisin will freeze so you could get two and keep one for later. :o).

[nineveh_uk]

+ 1 on freezing. Or you can buy the frozen ones and heat them up. they're not as good as fresh, but they are pretty decent.

I am so, so happy that the winter sports season has, with some inevitable hiccups, been able to run this year. I think I'd have been a lot more fed up this winter had I been without it.

[white_hart]

The trouble with freezing things for later is that our freezer is already very full, and I tend to forget what's in there. (These two problems may in fact be connected...)

I'm glad you're getting to watch the winter sports!