Went out for a walk this morning and just as I turned to head back I encountered R. She's a originally Welsh I think but has no trace of a Welsh accent. She used to run a charity shop in the village before the lease ran out and it closed. We've both lived in Norway for roughly the same time. Another coincidence is that we both lived in Southampton before emigrating and the time periods overlapped.
We were in the middle of a long chat about fashion, charity shops, jumble sales, and so on when a woman stopped beside us and asked if she could take a picture of us together! I think she thought were were a couple and she asked how we came to be in Svelvik, presumably because we were obviously foreign as we we speaking English (with the occasional Norwegianism)
While rummaging through the pantry in the vain hope of finding some interesting snack I cam across a jar of cheap supermarket own brand instant hot chocolate powder. It's been there for ages so I decided to do something with it. So I made chocolate fairy cakes by simply using the hot chocolate powder in place of sugar. The powder is mostly sugar anyway. Worked quite well although I had to add two 30 ml of milk to the mixture to make it less stiff.
They won't win any prizes but they are pleasant enough with a cup of tea.
