Tuesday, December 22/2009

Very busy around the hotel as the cleaners prepare for new residents. They don't show up at our flat until after one and then only to take the rubbish and deliver toilet paper. Would have been a good time for clean floors as M&M are coming to dinner but it's a poor dinner party that focuses on the floor. In the interests of dinner, I head downstairs to try to scavenge a couple more coffee spoons as we seem to have only one, but on the way to the lift pass the manager pressed into service wheeling the cart of kitchen odds and ends from its usual hiding spot behind the stairs to a flat that's being cleaned. Not a good time for surreptitious acquisition.

So we dine with only one coffee spoon - but a beautiful leg of lamb with a mushroom wine sauce and little new potatoes. The lamb, surprisingly, is Irish, a whole leg whih the butcher has kindly cut in 2 so that it would fit in the pot. good company too. this is our pre-Christmas meal with M&M who are going to Malta for 4 days over Christmas.