ロックダウン4日目。と言ってもフランスから戻って以来ずっと人にも会わず、ほとんど同じ状態、戻ってから17日目。
今日のランチは、昨日の夕食の残りのチキンとハルミチーズのサンドイッチとその前日のグレーターで荒く削った人参の残りを使って仕込んで置いたキャロット・ラペのサンドイッチ（余っていたシラチャ・マヨもはどちらにも）を半分ずつ。夫は人参の方は美味しくないわけじゃないけど、チキンの方が美味しい、と言っていましたが、わたしは人参のもシャキシャキ感が良くて美味しかったですし、チキンも美味しかったです。パンは、パン焼き器で焼いたパン。イギリスのパンはあまり口に合わず、家で焼くのが一番美味しい。薄力粉系はどこを見ても見つかりませんが、強力粉は時々見かけます。
The 4th day of the lockdown. For us, our life hasn’t changed much since we came back from Paris, it’s been 17 days since then.
Today’s lunch was sandwiches with left-over fillings. One was yesterday’s leftover chicken and Halloumi cheese, the other was carrot salad I made with left-over grated carrot from the day before. I liked both of them but my husband preferred the chicken one much more. We used the bread we baked with our bread baking machine. We cannot find bread we really like in England very often and find the bread we bake is much nicer than any other bread we find. We cannot find any cake flour but we do find strong flour now and again.
今日も良いお天気で、夫は午後からお茶の時間までお庭で本を読んで過ごしていました。イギリス人なので、お庭がある一軒家に住みたいと思っていた願いが叶って何より。わたしは正直なところ、マンションの方がメンテも楽で便利で良いかもと思っていましたが、今の状況ではお庭がある一軒家で良かったな、と思いますし、都会でなく田舎に住んでいるのも良かったと思います。
お片づけは、ぼちぼち進んでいます。でも、当分かかりそう。かがんだり立ったり、箱を２階から１階に運んできたりで少々背中が痛いです。ま、時間はたっぷりありそうですので、ぼちぼちやります。
It was another beautiful day today and my husband was enjoying reading in the garden in the sun. As a typical English person would, he always wanted to live in a detached house with a garden and I’m glad we do now specially for him as he is loving it. Personally, I thought it maybe easier and more comfortable to live in a apartment like we’ve done all our married life because the maintenance is easier, but they don’t have that sort of apartment in England and if they do I don’t think we can afford it. Anyway, in the current situation, I am very glad that we live in a detached house with a garden and I’m glad we live in the countryside rather than a big city.
I am spending hours in the afternoon unboxing and putting things away slowly. Bringing boxes down from the first floor, unboxing by squatting, standing, carrying – my back started to hurt. It looks like it’ll take quite a while but we have time, so I’ll try to do it slowly rather than going fast and having a bad back.