Food of the Gods

Day 88 - 08:35am, 29 March 2019

Little Miss is off to her first Brownie camp today and so the rest of us are taking advantage of us being a family of four, staying in a family room in a hotel close by. Little Master is terribly excited about this fact and has been counting down for days. Having taken the day off work, the first half is spent buying supplies - Little Master's restricted diet means having to have a full weekend's supply - packing her long kit list and getting our gear together too.

You always end up forgetting something. In this instance, I forget my toothbrush and a night light for Little Master. I will come to regret it, because it means sleeping with the bedroom light on. I say sleeping, but that doesn't happen.

In the meantime, our first test is tea. Little Master has been warned he may have to live without pasta and so excited is he to e staying in a hotel room that he accepts it. However, there is pasta on the children's menu and so he is quick to get his order in. My relief is short-lived. When the dishes come his pasta comes with garnish. Not only garnish, but the most finely cut garnish that you have ever seen, meaning I have to pick it off piece by piece. The waiter looks at me half in pity, half in disgust, but my cold tea is a price worth paying.