That was Easter, right?

The long Easter weekend is coming to a close... and it's been extra long for Mr Robot and I as we took an extra couple of days off. So what have we been doing? I've been listening to vintage radio shows – early noughties recordings of 1920s The Saint stories, and 1960s recordings of one of John Creasey's Inspector West books. It's quite interesting hearing how people then thought the voices should sound, as compared to how I read the novels.

I'm also trying to read a 1920s crime novel, but my brain's not quite fixing on it, and I tend to pick it up just before falling asleep so I haven't got very far with it!


Like a lot of people we've been cooking well. To be honest, we cook well most of the time and tend to have well-stocked cupboards, so things like the Great Flour Stockpiling passed us by. It wasn't till this week, when we needed gram flour and Tesco had completely sold out, that I realised just how many people had been buying flour. I guess a lot of them are doing home baking to keep their kids occupied. We haven't actually had any difficulty getting anything else; our milkman still brings the milk twice a week, the vegbox delivery comes on Wednesday as usual, and our butcher is fully stocked too. We have to go to Tesco for cat food about once a fortnight, and queueing for an hour to get into the socially-distanced supermarket on Saturday was quite a surreal experience.

One of the best things of the week was these samosas Mr Robot made. The filling is pea and potato, and the dip is tamarind-based.

I did watch the Miss Fisher movie on Friday night, but didn't like it much. That said, I'd been on the rum that afternoon, so I shall give the film a sober rewatch at some point. Hopefully the costumes will be less irksome the second time round – I do get a bit narked when modern programmes show 1920s dresses as fitted and slinky. Anyway, I did put on my Edwardian necklace for the occasion, as the photo proves. (Mr Robot is appreciating my NECKLACE. Yes he is.)

Something I won't be putting on for any occasion for a while is the shirt dress I've been making as I don't have buttons for it. It's also a bit too tight. The shoulders are fine, and the waist is okay, but it could do with another inch in the bust. To be honest, it's still closer to fitting properly than any shirtdress I could buy, and I'm hoping that if I hit the gym and stick to salads once lockdown ends, it'll be wearable. I'm a bit upset that it doesn't quite fit, especially as the bodice I mocked up seemed to, but I did have to make a lot of adjustments to the pattern: the shoulders are two sizes smaller than the waist (I'm quite small-boned) and then the bust had to be taken from a D-cup to a GG-cup in between. So really, getting this close is a pretty good achievement.  When the buttons arrive we'll see how close I got.

Other than that, it's been housework, ponking about in the garden, and rather a lot of Animal Crossing on my Nintendo Switch. I do like Animal Crossing. It's a happy little game, and unlike in real life, I don't need to shout at the animals to GET OFF NEXT DOOR'S ROOF.