So I set out just after 4pm (you know, just after our 'sun' has gone down and it's, well...dark), crunching down the sporadically-gritted path to the bus stop, resolutely telling myself that a) it was not as cold as my nose was telling me it was, b) it was ok not to walk all they way into Kingston today because it was cold/it was dark/time didn't permit and c) that I would feel much better with these errands off the to-do list.
And then I got into Kingston to find...
...the lights are up...
...the tree is out...
...and there's a gorgeous new old-fashioned sweet shop in Castle Street (where I spent about 20 minutes wondering around in child-like amazement).
Buoyed by all this festive cheer (and a reunion with my phone which seemed to go quite smoothly), I crunched on to A's who had promised an evening of home-cooked lasagne and mooching on the couch, curled up under blankets and just feeling all warm and toasty.
I didn't think it could get any better, but it did...
She was making lamingtons when I got there!
I didn't think it could get any better, but it did...
She was making lamingtons when I got there!
Eeeeeeeeeee (aka squeal of excitement)!
Delicious little chocolate-dipped, coconut-covered bundles of sponge-cake yumminess!
And not wanting to be rude, I had three...
I think Christmas may have come a little early (27 days actually) this year!
3 comments:
Agree totally - lamingtons make everything that much better. And eating three is the least you could do. Five is still considered polite as well ;)
Love the old-fashioned sweet shop. Pear drops? Sour apples? Coconut kisses? Mmmm..... You can get a bit fed up with Sour Patch Kids.
VW - 5 eh? If I didn't think they would have all gone by now, I'd pop in on the way home from work tonight!!!
Kate - they had proper Australian licorice and little bags of chocolates and jars and jars and jars of pretty lollies everywhere...I'm not into sweets very much but it was quite awesome!
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