Who said that British cooking sucked?

No, I didn't! One of the things I miss the most from my last year in England (I was in Nottingham, in case I didn't mention it before) is the food. Some people would be astonished about this declaration, but I really miss jacked potatoes, fudge chocolate cake, fish and chips, pies... Yes, I know is nothing near healthy, but it's tasty! So, saturday night I went to my friend Andrea's birthday party and there she showed me a great book her boyfriend's grandma gave to her: The Great British Book of Baking. Once I oppened it I discovered a marvelous world of naan bread, crumpets, pies, pastries...and I started to drool like Homer Simpson.
Yesterday I was with my friends Bea and Lou making an order in Amazon.co.uk and Bea and me couldn't help buying one book for each. It was 10 pounds and for that price I think we deserve baking the taste of Britain.
By the way, I just received my previous order (check this post) and Tamara Drewe's book is simply great. I strongly recommend it.

Online Shopaholic

Amazon.co.uk should give me some gift for being such a good client. Well, Ryanair too, but they think 15 flights in less than one year are not enough...
I've just placed an order which could be the online equivalent of a real life afternoon when you come back home with thousands of bags. All began with my research about Tamara Drewe, Gemma Arterton's new movie. So I checked on amazon the comic book that inspired it. And added it to my basket. Then I found out she starred on 2008 a BBC miniseries based on Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". And who was his male partenaire? Hot ginger Eddie Redmayne -who you may remember as Jack on "The Pillars of the Earth".

Then I saw as "recommendations" some other BBC series like "Pride and Prejudice" (check on my list -left- that I'm reading the book right now) but I remembered that some friend already has it, so for once I stopped myself...and instead decided to buy the movie with Keira Knightly and Matthew MacFayden -Prior Phillip on "The Pillars of the Earth", notice everything is connected. After that I went back to Gemma Arterton's profile on imdb.com, great tv and movies website, by the way, and saw that she was also on "The Boat that Rocked", a movie I've longed to watch for ages. So I added it to my basket. And as I didn't qualify for Free Super Saver Delivery, I bought a book I loved but gave to my Chinese friend; Langston Hughes's poetry (take a look at this blog). So, this was my shopping today, for 28 pounds, all included.