Baker & Spice



This all looks delicious and it was - but it cost almost 10 quid?! Is that not a bit much for:

• a blueberry muffin
• a pain au chocolat
• a loaf of seed-y bread
• a fruit tart-y thing

In CDN$ that is over $20.00. Baker & Spice is located on a few posh high streets and is definitely for the slummy mummies who can afford to eat there after pushing their designer prams to pick up some expensive dry cleaning, get an over priced mani and pedi and then head to the organic grocer to drop another few hundred quid on the week's groceries.

Delicious fresh bread and great French pastry should be affordable to the masses, non? Parisians don't go broke buying their morning croissant. And the pain au chocolat tastes the same as the Tesco ones which cost something around 70p.

Don't mind me, I am just complaining again about the lack of decent bakeries in London. I should pull my uncle and aunt out of retirement to come show this town what an amazing loaf of Sicilian or Calabrese bread tastes like. Mr. & Mrs Tempo Bakery - you up for it?

Milk at lastThe lovely PR, Chris, from Lactofree sent me some vouchers so I can drink milk again. Yay! It tastes great and am loving drinking milk again. Only problem is that it is not sold at my local grocery store so needed to go to Selfridges to get this carton. Hopefully Tesco will start selling it soon but I don't mind going to Selfridges as there is always something interesting to look at there. Thanks Lacto-free people!

Check out their website for more info. http://www.lactofree.co.uk
There is news, advice and more information about lactose intolerance and Lactofree milk. There is even a community hub and a guide to restaurants that cater for lactose-intolerant people, making it easier for them to choose where they eat out in the UK. How helpful!

Shoot Bafta - Clue E I can't remember what the clue was, I think it was related to 'PG' ratings of films...B & I interpreted it this way -which is oh so creative, non?

We were going to buy a box of tea bags and then make the word film, but decided to instead empty the shelves and make the word out of the the PG Tips tea boxes. We did this in a busy Tesco in Covent Garden amongst many stares from shoppers and staff, luckily they didn't tell us to stop or kick us out, but we were quick as! PG Tips is the great British Tea consumed by the majority here, the company started in 1869 and is still going strong.

I think the winning photo was of a PG Tips tea bag in the foreground and a naked couple kissing in the church gardens (there is a lovely church behind the Piazza) in the background of the pic. I guess they won for their fancy camera work, a risqué pose and being naked, somehow, always gets you noticed by the judges!

Bafta sponsored the Shoot event the day of the awards ceremony and the photo treasure hunt ended in Covent Garden's Piazza. We didn't win a prize for any of our photos but am sure it was a tough choice between ours and the winners ;)

Life is like a box of chocolates....You never know what you're going to get. Had a crappy day today and thought of two things:

1. Forrest Gump's saying - Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get (so true!)
2. When life hands you a lemon - make lemonade (as there is nothing else you can do, non?)

A few friends made me smile this evening and while was moping along the street this morning, on the way to the tube I saw the Queen's horses doing their morning trot along Elgin Avenue.

The sight of those horses and carriages and the young soldiers on them always makes me smile like crazy - I don't know why but I think it is the sound (you can hear them coming far before they arrive), strength and beauty of the horses and the smiling faces of the riders (not a bad job to have each morning - trotting through London on a horse!) I sometimes stop and just take a snap with my camera phone. Anyhow that brings me to the chocolate reference above and the Queen.

There is a new chocolate made by the Queen's chocolatiers called Prestat - eating 2 squares a day can give you enough antioxidants that you need. It is true as the press release comes with a whole other page of studies and tests carried out on this magic chocolate. Ain't no need for Madonna to give you a shot of B12 up your arse, just have some chocolate!From the PR for Choxi- Alternatively, you could eat more than 1lb (0.46kg) of Brussels sprouts or over 5lbs (2.3kg) of apples! It is available nationwide from larger Tesco stores. Weight for weight, Choxi+ dark chocolate contains almost 20 times as many antioxidants as blueberries.

It tastes good too! Somehow it has not broke into mainstream media but am sure once it does it will fly off the shelves. Lemonade recipe to come another day that I am feeling miserable!