I crawled out of a very comfortable and warm bed this morning, reluctantly.  I was tired and wanted to stay but I had a big day ahead of me.  I left my dear friend’s house just after 7 am.  Morning horses 🙂

Round the corner, this beautiful view of the Leicestershire countryside in an early morning mist wowed me.

And this.  How beautiful!

An hour later and I was parking at the Birmingham office.  I popped in to EAT and bought a ham and egg sandwich and a skinny latte.

I went back at lunch time for a soup.

Thai spicy butternut which was ok.  No bread or accompaniments.

It was a long drive home after an intense and tiring day.  It took 3 hours and for most of that I was battling with myself because I wanted to go and buy chocolate in a service station, but I stayed in the car and just kept going and got home shortly after 9pm, 14 hours after I left for work in the morning.

The boiler is broken AGAIN so no hot water or heating AGAIN!  GRRRRRR!

I promised myself a smoothie and it was worth waiting for.

Spinach, banana, apple, 2 dates, 1/2 a tub of cottage cheese with pineapple with almond milk and ice cubes.  It was wonderful – refreshing and creamy and very smooth.

Followed by some Gruyere and oatcakes.  So that was my day in Birmingham, briefly.