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

[mountainkiss]

It was, except that she has an extraordinary self-administered lockdown mullet.

[danieldwilliam]

She cut her own hair?

[mountainkiss]

I think Char later intervened but by then the damage was done.

[danieldwilliam]

Well, it will grow out I suppose and either she will be a little embarrased when the pictures surface at here 21st birthday and wedding or she'll be incredibly proud of them when she's a mid-21st Century Toyah Willcox.

I once cut my brother's hair with a pair of plastic safety scissors. That got out of hand quickly. The fraternal tonsure lead very quickly to a parental censure.

[mountainkiss]

I'm surprised it hasn't already grown out TBH. Maybe she likes it that way.

[danieldwilliam]

Every generation needs a Toyah.