Snowy Sunday : brrrrrrrr ccccold!

Cuttlebrook today at 10:30 am.
This was last week's macaroni cheese a la Nigella Express made with red leicester and I added a layer of cooked ham from the COOP. MMMMM sooooo delicious!!! Really terrific and just like my mama used to make many many years ago.
It completely ruined my diet of course, gained a lb in 3 days instead of losing a few lbs.
IRRESISTABLE!

Today was a bloggy snowy cold kind of a day. Still feeling a bit poorly due to the WW diet which leaves me dizzy, light headed and whoozy. Also something awry with my tongue, could have been last weeks antibiotics. It was nice blogging Paris though, re-living it so to speak.
As I walked into town yesterday it began to snow, lightly but coldly. This was about 3.30 pm.
Then it got heavier and it snowed in the evening and the night, minus 10 degrees C as well, the dogs slept in the hallway and living room, the kitchen being too cold overnight.
It was only a bit, less than 4 inches but Miss Y 's cello day of musical activity got cancelled and we didn't go to J Lewis to choose new curtains today. A staying in day except for a dogwalk this morning. T'was a long day as Lucy got us up at 6 am ( on a Sunday!) , she'd slept on Miss Y's bed and thought it was Monday when she DOES come visit me in bed at 6 or 6:30 am.





I have spent the day discussing a re-vamp of our living room, the purchase of new sofas and an arm chair and so on, also a LOT of crocheting: an entire 100g ball of KATIA AZTECA as below.

I wanted to see how the colours changed as I want to design and make a top down cardigan with raglan sleeves in it, I have only 5 balls of it in the attic. There's be ribbing in the yoke and then a flatter but dense fabric below, I may even be tempted to work it sideways for vertical stripes??
With respect to the diet, we joined on a Tuesday evening and next Tuesday will be week1, up to Friday evening I had already lost over 4 lbs but the weekend has been a disaster.

Little excercise and a lot of munching. Nibbling. Treats...
And I'm getting sick of bananas which you can eat for ''free''...!!!lol. I don;t like them. But now I suddenly eat 2 or 3 a day? Plan is Miss Y ( categorised as obese by NCMP) and myself will adjust our shape- must'n say ''lose'' as the body will always fight a loss- by 1 and a half stone at least!

21 lbs to be exact or in the region thereof.

PARIS day 2

Fabulous cheese shop on the Rue St-Louis en L'Ile .
Sunny morning: looking at L'Arc de Triomphe from our balcony.
After breakfast we headed to the Marais district but the girls didn't like it much and Miss Y complained about the walking so we headed back to Ile de la Cite which they LOVE for all the shops and they bought lots of sweets and lollied there.

I liked the puppets shop.
This cat was amusing?
Lovely scarves and colourful accessories, tres chic.

Eye catching mosaic animals.....

even some dachshunds...
THIS is the girls' favourite sweet shop in Paris:

I was admiring some felt accessories as we waited, and waited and waited....


The Notre Dame was next on our list but the queues were long and it was so cold and grey...




We briefly went inside, lit candles for the family and then sought LUNCH!

Lunches and dinners had been delicious but a bit pricey atover £150 per meal each time, so I enticed the family to a little FRENCH local bistro in le Quartier Latin...

We ate at '' The cat that fishes'' Le Chat qui pisce'' or somesuch in Rue de la Huchette.

DELICIOUS 3 course meal for all four of us PLUS drinks for under £70!
French onion soup for me and chevre chaud for JJ and the girls, then a fabulously moist salmon steak with salad and mousse au chocolat. YUMMEEEEE!

It was full when we sat down, full of local French not tourists, then we took ages so it was just us at closing time.
A bookshop down Rue Mazarin
Then up walking towards the Seine, turn left and along RIVE GAUCHE there were lovely antiques to be seen in the local shop windows. A little fashion too...

Talking of fashion: guess who wlaked right past Miss E and myself, touching distance away with a bodyguard just behind??? WHO? MONSIEUR KARL LAGERFELD that's WHO!!!!

It was sooo exciting, the trademark black suit, dark glasses, white ponytail... Not very tall.

Miss E and I whooped with glee but didn't run back for an autograph. I know it was him and that was enough.
It was near here that we saw HIM.

Blustery windy day along the Seine.
Love love LOVE the ATTITUDE of this red man at traffic lights.

He really says STOP doesn't he?
I spy a bit of ART, sculpture through an archway...
And then we queued to get into le MUSEE D'ORSAY. For the impressionists you understand, as well as the building itself.
Fab view through a CLOCK across the Seine to the Louvre?!!!
Was dissappointed in the impressionists, there were NO VAN GOGHS at all that time. But we liked the building, which used to be a railway station and was converted by a famous architect.

the building meant much more to us AFTER we had seen the film HUGO which we saw at home in the holidays and which plays out in the railway station before it's becomes a museum.

This CLOCK features heavily and I'm glad I had these photos!







Then we went home and had a lovely evening meal in the Rue Carnot at a restaurant 2 doors down from our hotel.