Better Days

Good morning to all bloggers and welcome to new arrivals. A quieter day was enjoyed yesterday which is just as well. The showbiz quotient of Tuesday was hard to keep up and there's only so much sparkle one is allowed. So a chat and brunch with child 1 before his return to uni was quite enough (the bar for luring him back south now impossibly high - all he requires are tickets for a royal premiere). Tonight we venture out again to see Warhorse on stage-Michael Morpurgo will be a guest on the show very soon. I haven't seen it before but there are only great reviews, so have persuaded child 3 to join me. Interval crisps is the deal.

Today's show features Nigel back in the kitchen knocking up a sausage cassolet. This is interesting I think because it comes from a new cook book written by Catherine Hill who got the idea for this collection while listening to an ARF. She heard all the weekend plans for baking, feasting and celebrating and was inspired to write The Weekend Cookbook. So Nige has roadtested one of the recipes and you can hear the results today after 6.

And oldies please of GROWTH and EXPANSION. The PM let slip that we'll be getting good news today which is widely believed to be the end of the recession so lets party before it all goes wrong again! Songs of augmentation, proliferation, multiplication,enlargement, amplification, mushrooming, snowballing,rise, escalation, build-up will all work well. Thanks.

Have a delightful and profitable Thursday. See you after 5.