sorry again

that last post was the big one so that took ages and ages to do, but now that ones out of the way I should be able to catch up properly tomorrow but its 2AM and I want to be out the house and at school by 9.00AM so hopefully I can get working on stuff tomorrow

thursday's post, this was the day I was in london

I got up at about 6.30AM on thursday, it was a weird day, I needed to be out of the house by 7.00AM because it was the art trip

Breakfast

• nope, I didn't even have time to have my advent callender

Lunch 1.25PM (approx, not near a clock)

• my dad gave me an extra sandwich on thursday which was very nice of him - it was packed in an old ice-cream tub to make room, which I really like because it was a nice change. The sandwich I had was the salami one in a sesame seed bun (I wanted the chorizo one but salami is still much better than other cold meat)
• I also had some carrot sticks
• some orange juice
• and a scone that could of been really nice but one of my mum's bloody face packs made it taste like soap so I couldn't finish it

Dinner 6.50PM (approx because of no clock, could have been a lot later)

• we went to somewhere called the giraffe cafe for dinner, it reminded me of a nandos, just owned by a different kind of person

Starter

• for my starter I had warm naan (it actually was warm, which was impressive) with humus and a little bowl of little bits of lettuce, celery, cucumber, carrots and pepper (red and yellow)
• the naan bread was really well balanced, not greasy at all and had a very light, but full texture. The humus wasn't really up to much, it tasted so cluttered, like there was too much going on. The humus had pumpkin seeds sitting around it on the top, this was all a bit much considering all the other stuff rolling about in it too (it was quite loose as well)
• the salad was really quite nice, it was all really fresh and cut into the perfect little size for dipping in the humus which was brilliant - also a girl gave me her salad because she said she didn't like it, that was cool but I couldn't even finish mine anyway

Main course

• for my main course I had something like a deluxe felafel burger, which came with some chips and a little (really tiny, but full up) dish of some kind of red, almost chili, tomato relish thing
• the burger was a real let down, it tasted like something I would spend 6 hours making then pretend to like. the burger its self was massive, it didn't look very tall but it was certainly too big to fit in my mouth (I suppose this is half of the fun) it was what seemed to be a poppy seed bun (not that great, but it was very much edible) with half the kitchen's contents crammed inside it. The key thing I remember is about 3 different sauces, one which seemed to be a really sweet but kind of delicate mayonnaise that could have worked well on its own but there was some kind of beetroot juice rolling around in there for some reason
• the falafel its self wasn't all that either, instead of one burger, there was a number of fairly small falafel nuggets (I knew because one fell out) I don't know if this is really important, but worth mentioning, they were dry, and crumbly with a breadcrumb like texture, they were nothing like the falafel you get in the wraps at eat
• the chips were very nice, slightly floppy and really fluffy and nice tasting, they tasted like they weren't home cooked, but I think that can be a real positive thing though
• the relish stuff was really nice and worked really well, it was kind of let down by the fact both it, and the chips were in separate dishes, on the same plate that the burger was on but I suppose thats what people like to see, in the end I couldn't even finish the meal, the portions were so big

Pudding

• nah, I didn't order one because I thought i'd be too full, and this was right

Drinks

• I didn't want to have anything alcoholic so I chose coke, it was brilliant how it came in glass bottles, and then they even brought us glasses to pour it in which was wonderful, but my hands were shaking like crazy for some reason

Over all

• I don't often go to restaurants, and I suppose this is the first time in many years I have been to one so I don't know if i'd be the right judge of service, but everyone who served us seemed really nice, and everything arrived nice and quickly.
• I think my meal was probably about £12-15 which isn't bad, but I don't really think the food was up to much at all, I wouldn't go again out of choice but nothing there was terrible, its just there didn't seem to be much need for a lot of the stuff they used

Snacks

• it was so late that when I got back all I had was my advent calender (turkish delight I think) but on the train ride back I had a couple of murray's mints

wednesday's post

I got up at about 6.30AM on wednesday, and I remember that I really wanted to go to poundland but I never did go

Breakfast 6.40AM

• I tried to eat my breakfast really quite fast because I was very tired - it was some special K red berries with some full fat milk. I really don't know where that vanilla cereal has gone

Lunch 2.00PM

• I had a sesame bun that tasted like mainly chorizo with a small slice of salami but it was probably just old chorizo
• I also had some orange juice
• some carrot sticks
• and a scone which was quite nice but a bit funny tasting
• a while after lunch I had my advent calender chocolate which was a fruit and nut dairy milk square. I don't like fruit and nut but it works so well in the small size

Dinner 6.35PM

• dinner was some griddled chicken, which was really well balanced but a little bit smaller than usual
• I also had a baked potato
• and a piece of chicken my mum didn't want
• there was also some salad
• after that I had a banana that wasn't very good

Snacks 7.40PM+

• I had a £1 mix of sweets, which was really quite nice, a welcome change from just having white mice, but I think I would buy a bigger mix if I was going to do it again

hi, sorry about the lack of posts

I went to london again on thursday which sadly messed up my posting, but I will do it now

its tuesday

on tuesday I got up at about 7.30AM

Breakfast 7.40AM

• for breakfast I had that special K red berries, and a strange amount of that vanilla cereal as well (I'm really starting to think theres just something wrong with my special K) with some full fat milk
• I forgot to add, since the 1st of december i've been having a cadbury's milk chocolate pieces advent calender - yesterday's was dairy milk and turkish delight, and today's was dairy milk and whole nut

Lunch 1.35PM

• for lunch I had a sesame bun with some salami in it, which was all nice and crisp
• I also had some orange juice
• some carrot sticks
• and a really quite nice scone with some really rich tasting clover in it

Dinner 6.50PM

• for dinner I had what I think was a lamb chop (I know it was lamb but i'm not sure if it was a chop) it was boneless, and the meat was very nice, with the fat being just that little bit too bitter
• we also had mashed potatoes, with some really big looking chives in
• there was also some cabbage, I think i'm losing my taste for this, it just doesn't seem to be taking salt too well
• I then had a banana, it wasn't terrible but nothing compared to what a good banana should be

Snacks 8.25PM+

• I had some cadbury's bournville dark chocolate, I don't know but I think if its left open for a few days, it gets more of a nutty taste like aldi chocolate

its monday

so I got up about 6.35AM today and actually got into school at a reasonable time

Breakfast 6.42AM

• breakfast was that strange mix of vanilla flavoured cereal and just a little special K red berries with full fat milk. The really strange thing was, I couldn't find any clusters today

Lunch 1.10PM

• I had some of that left over chorizo from friday in a sesame seed bun, this is a really nice change because the meat is nowhere as overpowering as tesco salami but still has that slightly synthetic tesco meat taste that for some reason I love
• I also had some orange juice
• some carrot sticks
• and a really nice, tall, scone

Dinner 6.40PM

• dinner was spaghetti bolognese, it was nice but for some reason I found that even though I finished last, I rushed eating it - also, I still can't really taste the salt we're using despite being told its the exact same stuff (it even feels different to me when I grind it in the mill) maybe I should just stop using so much of it. oh and I put a little pesto on mine, but there wasn't much left
• I also had a banana, it was better than last night's but still not amazing

Snacks 7.35PM+

• I started the night by sharing two of those really small packets of haribo starmix
• I then had some of the white mice that I bought on saturday, to save them going funny like the ones from a few weeks back

sunday's post

I got up about 2.10PM on sunday after going to bed really quite late

Breakfast

• nah, it was way too late

Lunch

• I wanted to try and give my hair a really good wash in the bath instead (still not clean and its monday now)

Dinner 6.55PM

• for dinner we had roast pork, but interestingly because my dad couldn't find the proper joint in the freezer, we had a belly pork roast - it wasn't really too different from normal pork, I don't think it really took salt very well and its flavour didn't last as long as normal pork but that isn't such a bad thing really
• we also had some roast potatoes
• yorkshire puddings
• carrots
• and some cabbage
• on top of everything, I put my usual amount of gravy, and I put some crab apple jelly on my pork
• I also had a banana after that, which like other recent bananas, really wasn't worth the bother

Snacks 8.35PM+

• first I had some more of the bournville dark chocolate, which I still think tastes so mixed
• I then had saturday's lunch, which was a heavy, but very nice slice of ginger cake - it didn't have any bad bits and it wasn't too musty
• with that I also had a bottle of fentiman's orange jigger which is always extremely nice - excluding their cola, its their only drink thats consistently mild and intruding when you eat something strong like a ginger cake