Since today is sunny, albeit breezy, a trip over to Barnard Castle is planned, to see the views and buy supplies from Morrison's and Rise Artisan Bakery. After all, there's no point stopping indoors when its not even raining is there? Now, as it happens, this was one of those days when the little blood clots were causing a little more breathlessness than before, so after parking close enough to Rise and purchasing a large seeded sourdough, a huge ciabatta and several pastries we made our way upstairs to see about lunch. Soup of the Day was Stilton and Mushroom blended together, plus two different crusts from the ends of the Artisan loaves made earlier by Alex and Cat, master bakers of Rise. After baking the bread they produced pastries to die for, savoury and sweet, before loading the shelves, including the window display with the results. Maybe they had time for breakfast and a nap at this point, maybe not, but anyway when your gourmet blogger and his friend from Stanhope, acting as chauffeur today, arrived at around 12.30 or lunchtime, both bakers were dressed in baker's clothes and pitching in with the waiting and serving staff.
Compare this approach to food to alternatives, say highly processed mush appropriating the word "bread", leaving master bakers of yore reduced to calling their real bread Artisan Bread! This is clearly described by Charles Eisenstein in The Yoga of Eating and other brilliant books available in the Library of The Retreat House in Stanhope.
After some clearing and preparing in The Retreat House, ready for a light supper and a film, The Life of Pi came on. For those of a spiritual nature this one's for you, and you've not seen it before, do. Based on a book by Yann Martel, well worth reading by the way, this film is free to borrow from the Library of The Retreat House. We don't post them, so you need to call in at Stanhope, unless it's now gone virtual like most things these days! That's the Great Reset of course, a subject for another day ...
Tomorrow is Sunday and another Stand in the Park at Hexham missed. Never mind, best to rest and bust these clots in the lungs once and for all and certainly before the end of March and early April when Utta arrives for two weeks holiday from Berlin. Meanwhile, Bill, the spiritual advisor of the philosophical blogger, arrives for lunch. What better than Rise Artisan Bread for main course and delicious pastries for dessert?
Storm Malik's predicted to be 80 mph tomorrow, which is rather breezy, but Bill's highly unlikely to let that stop him driving over from Hexham to Stanhope for lunch.
Good night dear readers, and don't forget The Life of Pi ...
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