Yubba dubba.. what a delicious supper we had last night with our new young friends. They are Romanians and we met them recently through an Armenian friend whom we met through our much beloved Lebanese friends, our circle of friends is truly cosmopolitan, is it not!
Getting there to their home could not be easier, for they live forty houses away from a C1 bus stop on a quiet street overlooking a beautifully maintained square. They're lucky, because not only do they over look this lovely space but they have a huge terrace as well!
He is the cook in the family and what a cook too! The smell, as we entered their flat, was scrumptious and so after she had shed her jacket and unpacked me from my tiny travelling cage, she went into their kitchen to greet Juliano and investigate the source of the smell!
To find.. ooh! One of our favourite winter dishes, three gammon hocks roasting in stock with beans and root vegetables. I love this and she thinks my eating the fat is responsible for the glossiness of my new feathers, which Dear Readers, I'm sure you will be pleased to know, are covering up most of my tumtum.
She had taken two hostess gifts, one was a huge pot of our home made labneh and the other a gift box of her, also home made, crystallised ginger. As we've said before.. a cold winter is a'coming and ginger warms your tumtum and helps keeps that naughty cold at bay!
What a funny time they had! She asked them how they met as they didn't meet in Romania, Andreea grew up Bucharest and Juliano grew up eight hours away from the city in the depths of countryside. The stories of how they both got here to London is a book in itself!
And they started taking about the Romanian 'beggars' who have come to 'work' in the UK and oh boy, did they have tales to tell! Andreea went to fetch her iPad and went onto a Romanian website on Romanian Gypsy architecture and interior design, there were hundreds of photographs of the most extraordinary houses with interiors the like of which you cannot, could not, would not believe to be true! They squealed with laughter at the look on her face.
These two, I hasten to add, are not Gypsies and are both carriers of legally obtained UK passports!
Then it was their turn to ask her.. when did you come to London, what did you do, how old were you and they were incredulous when she said "I came to London fifty years ago" and filled in the past fifty years!
Meanwhile, I was perambulating about the dining table as free as 'de bird', having a little snack here and a little snack there off everyone's plates.. sadly she told them that I wasn't allowed chocolate, so I didn't sample the delicious looking chocolate mousse that Andreea had made.. that was a great pity as it looked very tasty.
But time waits for no man and soon it was quite late and our sweet hostess said "It's cold, I'll run you home", so I clambered back into my cage, Juliano was kissed, down the stairs and out to the car we went and ten minutes later, we walked in through our own front door. What a pleasant evening..
And we have awoken to a sunny but damp day, she'll go to the library, take tea with our Lebanese friends, collect things that she is donating to charity and tomorrow, well tomorrow, as Scarlet so wisely said, is another day.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 12th, 2017.
Getting there to their home could not be easier, for they live forty houses away from a C1 bus stop on a quiet street overlooking a beautifully maintained square. They're lucky, because not only do they over look this lovely space but they have a huge terrace as well!
He is the cook in the family and what a cook too! The smell, as we entered their flat, was scrumptious and so after she had shed her jacket and unpacked me from my tiny travelling cage, she went into their kitchen to greet Juliano and investigate the source of the smell!
To find.. ooh! One of our favourite winter dishes, three gammon hocks roasting in stock with beans and root vegetables. I love this and she thinks my eating the fat is responsible for the glossiness of my new feathers, which Dear Readers, I'm sure you will be pleased to know, are covering up most of my tumtum.
She had taken two hostess gifts, one was a huge pot of our home made labneh and the other a gift box of her, also home made, crystallised ginger. As we've said before.. a cold winter is a'coming and ginger warms your tumtum and helps keeps that naughty cold at bay!
What a funny time they had! She asked them how they met as they didn't meet in Romania, Andreea grew up Bucharest and Juliano grew up eight hours away from the city in the depths of countryside. The stories of how they both got here to London is a book in itself!
And they started taking about the Romanian 'beggars' who have come to 'work' in the UK and oh boy, did they have tales to tell! Andreea went to fetch her iPad and went onto a Romanian website on Romanian Gypsy architecture and interior design, there were hundreds of photographs of the most extraordinary houses with interiors the like of which you cannot, could not, would not believe to be true! They squealed with laughter at the look on her face.
These two, I hasten to add, are not Gypsies and are both carriers of legally obtained UK passports!
Then it was their turn to ask her.. when did you come to London, what did you do, how old were you and they were incredulous when she said "I came to London fifty years ago" and filled in the past fifty years!
Meanwhile, I was perambulating about the dining table as free as 'de bird', having a little snack here and a little snack there off everyone's plates.. sadly she told them that I wasn't allowed chocolate, so I didn't sample the delicious looking chocolate mousse that Andreea had made.. that was a great pity as it looked very tasty.
But time waits for no man and soon it was quite late and our sweet hostess said "It's cold, I'll run you home", so I clambered back into my cage, Juliano was kissed, down the stairs and out to the car we went and ten minutes later, we walked in through our own front door. What a pleasant evening..
And we have awoken to a sunny but damp day, she'll go to the library, take tea with our Lebanese friends, collect things that she is donating to charity and tomorrow, well tomorrow, as Scarlet so wisely said, is another day.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 12th, 2017.
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