Now we can say “We’re going to New York NEXT MONTH!!!!”

Just saw a new police car on the way to work this morning. The new rack of lights on the roof is much much lower than the previous red, white and blue strip. It’s going to be a lot harder to spot their cars 1km in the distance – the old roof lights being higher give the cars quite a distinct shape from that distance making them quite easy to identify as police cars … usually about the same time the radar detector picks them up but they don’t always flick their radars on until they get a lot closer.

Yes it seems we’re addicted to pastry – when we’re not making pasta-based meals we’re creating little pies and tarts. Last night a variation on the tomato and ricotta tarts – this time the main ingredient being asparagus.

They were a real experiment – I put mayonnaise in the filling and cut the spear tips into halves to decorate the tops. All that at the end of a release day at work!