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

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[mrs_redboots]

Sorry, that was me - didn't realise I had been logged out.

[white_hart]

Thanks! We don't have a Lidl anywhere near us, and have been avoiding the big Sainsbury's apart from a couple of click and collect orders to get things that aren't available in the smaller shops, so almost all of our supermarket shopping is done at the local Tesco Metro, which has everything we usually need but not a very wide range.

[mrs_redboots]

We have a plethora of small Sainsbury's (and two normal-sized ones), which are far more expensive than anywhere else, but no Tesco Metro locally. But with Lidl within 50 metres, Tescos within 150, and the two Sainsbury's less than a kilometre in different directions, we don't really need one. Last time I went to a Tesco Metro I was on the hunt for streaky bacon for my mother to put on a chicken, and they had none and were horrendously arsey when I enquired, as though nobody in their right minds would ever want to buy streaky! We had to go to her local superstore!

[white_hart]

I guess that's the difference between living in an urban area and a suburban village! The Tesco (and a Co-op that used to be a decent size but has shrunk down to convenience-store size) are about half a mile away in the centre of the village, the big Sainsbury's is just over a mile and there's nothing else until you get to Summertown which is about three and a half miles.