Day two in Edinburgh started with the shuttle bus from Edinburgh Park Station to the office followed by a far healthier breakfast than Steve would normally have. Bacon roll replaced by Special-K cereal, apple & orange juice. Following a raft of meetings and emails it was time to get taxi over to customer site. Booking raised on internal system at 10:05 for taxi at 10:30. Job not assigned until 10:35 and then failed to arrive so had to jump into Waldman Taxis - relatively clean inside (for a change).
After arriving 15 minutes late for the start of the meeting it turned out to be a very uninteresting meeting lasting over 2 hours meaning we arrived back at the office at 13:50 and after the canteen had stopped serving food. Lunch for Steve was therefore limited to Ryvita with light Philadelphia followed by low fat yoghurt and all washed down with mango and banana smoothie. At least by the time he left the office at 18:15 he was starting to feel just a little hungry. Arrived back at the hotel to find that could not get a table to eat in the restaurant until 20:15 so was going to have to wait a little longer, giving him the chance to read some more Hydrogen Sonata. Evening meal was hot-smoked salmon niçoise followed by house burger, which turned out to be rather nice. Expecting a bad morning of customer meetings tomorrow so off for a 'relatively' early night.
Nic meantime was having her favourite lunch - leftover curry :) (see Curry Favour for details...).
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Her evening meal was a regular from the Tommi Miers Mexican Made Simple cookbook, squash and chorizo soft tacos. Being a thrifty soul, she also added some saved spicy refried beans from the freezer, and topped it off with fresh salsa, pink pickled onions and a yoghurt & chipotle drizzle. Plenty of washing up for a single-person meal - thanks goodness for the dish-washer! Pleased to say there's leftovers for lunch tomorrow too ... Sorry for the picture quality though.
There's been lots of toast for breakfast this week, so for a change Nic put some oats in apple juice to soak overnight, ready to create some bircher muesli in the morning.
All this, and another round of Fit To Ski exercises. More perspiration from an hour of these exercises than ever were shed on the slopes, they must be having an effect!
Some excellent news tonight too - the trip to see Connor and Estelle in Paris in May has been given their seal of approval, so full steam ahead with arrangements now.
And finally, Bring Up The Bodies reached its inevitable conclusion and Nic's now dithering about what to read next.
After arriving 15 minutes late for the start of the meeting it turned out to be a very uninteresting meeting lasting over 2 hours meaning we arrived back at the office at 13:50 and after the canteen had stopped serving food. Lunch for Steve was therefore limited to Ryvita with light Philadelphia followed by low fat yoghurt and all washed down with mango and banana smoothie. At least by the time he left the office at 18:15 he was starting to feel just a little hungry. Arrived back at the hotel to find that could not get a table to eat in the restaurant until 20:15 so was going to have to wait a little longer, giving him the chance to read some more Hydrogen Sonata. Evening meal was hot-smoked salmon niçoise followed by house burger, which turned out to be rather nice. Expecting a bad morning of customer meetings tomorrow so off for a 'relatively' early night.
Nic meantime was having her favourite lunch - leftover curry :) (see Curry Favour for details...).
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Her evening meal was a regular from the Tommi Miers Mexican Made Simple cookbook, squash and chorizo soft tacos. Being a thrifty soul, she also added some saved spicy refried beans from the freezer, and topped it off with fresh salsa, pink pickled onions and a yoghurt & chipotle drizzle. Plenty of washing up for a single-person meal - thanks goodness for the dish-washer! Pleased to say there's leftovers for lunch tomorrow too ... Sorry for the picture quality though.There's been lots of toast for breakfast this week, so for a change Nic put some oats in apple juice to soak overnight, ready to create some bircher muesli in the morning.
All this, and another round of Fit To Ski exercises. More perspiration from an hour of these exercises than ever were shed on the slopes, they must be having an effect!
Some excellent news tonight too - the trip to see Connor and Estelle in Paris in May has been given their seal of approval, so full steam ahead with arrangements now.
And finally, Bring Up The Bodies reached its inevitable conclusion and Nic's now dithering about what to read next.
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