It's been a while since I commented on breakfast, I still want to find a way of doing this properly, whether as a video podcast or a separate blog. The local newspaper doesn't seem to want a regular breakfast critic, and inevitably 'forget' to contact me when a breakfast related story opportunity comes along.
Anyway, we went to town today for a bit of shopping and relaxing. Thankfully I have some podcasts in the bank so my Saturdays are hopefully going to spent as they should be. At the moment I am far too busy with organising gigs and the play that I just don't have enough time for anything recreational, there's three unread books on my bedside table that I would love to sit and read but when I do I spend the whole time getting more and more anxious that I am wasting precious time.
The Picnic Basket is a little cafe over the road from the train station that I have used when travelling but only to buy bacon cobs and tea prior to getting on a train. Mandi is a difficult person to take to cafes for breakfast as she didn't like fried food (weirdo) so has to find something suitable for her. Thankfully she was able to have a panini (I am old enough to remember when they were called 'toasties') and the place has tea and coffee for free when you eat, which is as it should be.
My breakfast consisted of two sausages, two rashers, two fried eggs, two slices of toast and the beans and tomatoes were presented in ramekins. Obviously the first thing I did was to empty them out onto my plate as I am not one of those people who fusses about food touching other food. As you can see from the above photograph, it wasn't the biggest and heartiest breakfast I have ever had, but both our orders cost less than ten pounds in total (free hot drinks remember) and the service was friendly, the place was clean and Radio 2 was on in the background so we had Pick of the Pops as our background.
The Picnic Basket also do a thing, (that isn't on their website so I can't really go into detail as I can't remember the ins and outs) where they open the doors for a community kitchen feeding those less fortunate and making good use of discarded supermarket food. Customers are allowed to donate the price of a meal for someone who really needs it. Of course we left a donation, we're not monsters.
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