Tavern Corona Virus Free Lock-in

[MissWinnie]

Exiled, I have a vision of you going round the supermarket with your trolley, waltzing past the baked beans and toilet roll aisles, and heading straight for the Stella! The important things!

Nah Winnie, I don't bother with Supermarkets for me Stella. Only 1/43 pubs in Kilkenny serve Stella so a mate of mine who has a cash n carry delivers a slab (24 cans) every week.
Don't always bother with the drink, but still kept the slab a week up for nigh on a year. So I wasn't so much panic buying as unintentional stockpiling over 12 months . I suppose this is my 'rainy day (year), so might try a few today

On the cake front Win, I don't do Choc cake, more of a Cheese scone and Welsh cake man. Did a nice Lemon drizzle cake with Salted Caramel Chocolate butter icing at the weekend, but the young Villan saw that off in no time.

Very therapeutic is baking, gives the mind something else to worry about. E.g. A cheese souffle can really set the pulses racing if it looks like it may fail to rise.

Ha ha, I wish I had a friend with a cash n carry at the moment. Always good to be prepared for a rainy year.

Well, chocolate is my fave but those all sound yummy. Actually, I like all cake - apart from coffee cake (don't drink coffee either). After reading your post I quite fancy making (and eating) some lock in cake, but running a bit low on baking ingredients, so thinking I need to be sensible and keep it for making bread if I can't get any. Not making any carrot cake?

How's the young Villan coping with confinement?

[Exiledvillan]

He’s finding it tough Win. His school closed on the 12th and he’s had 2 weeks of homeschooling. Well, I say homeschooling, but it’s all done online, work set by the teacher, and policed by his draconian mother. I think the school is taking the p1ss tbh. He goes to an ‘Educate Together’ primary school (no religion) and the teachers are a bit wishy-washy, vegan, hippy, save the planet and love everyone type. But that’s the price you have to pay over here to avoid the poisonous religious organisations and their hocus pocus.

Anyway back to taking the p1ss. Having met his feral classmates, there’s no way that the tree huggers at the school make the kids do this much work. They are just using the more, shall we say, stricter parents to catch up with the curriculum (the homework used to be excessive, probably did fox all at school). But then again half the parents make their own clothes and eat lentils, you’d like em Win .

So the Young Villan is having it tough. Loads of school work, no Villa and no playing with his mates. He’s monstering the Xbox tho, talking to all his mates that way. Overall I’d say he can’t wait to get back to school, if not for his pals, but for the easier day with the ‘Mother Earths’ of Kilkenny.