#glorious Beltane to you bitches

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[theblondegoesabroad]

Day 92

Friday 1st May 2020

Today is Labour day, or international workers day, or if you are a bitch witchy - it is also the festival of Beltane (which is the festival of the onset of summer, approximately between the spring equinox and the summer solstice). But most importantly, in Belgium, is is a day off work and Joelle and Paul made the most of it. Even Benoit gave himself the day off between finishing his report and starting studying. It was a lovely day, I woke up, had a lovely skype with Mum, Dad and Jamie (and Buddy(, made my bread as usual, and then Joelle and I headed out for a run. It was only the second run I have done on my broken toe and surprisingly after all this time it is still pretty sore and swollen but I think the main thing that affected my running was my fitness! We did a bigger loop than usual, probably around 9kms whereas usually we do 6kms so it was a bit longer and had a lot more hills, but it was nice to get outside and make the most of the sunshine. The weather is a bit on and off at the moment so it is hard to plan things! We had a big lunch of leftovers from the last few nights and then Joelle and Paul went out to work in the garden. It is looking really good, spring is in full bloom and the garden has a really magical feel about it at the moment! Very lucky to have this garden right outside! I wasn’t feeling too flash and ended up having a nap! All this time I have been in Belgium and doing not ‘a lot’, I haven’t had one day-time nap, which is rather surprising considering my days a pretty relaxed, but with all my hobbies I am usually quite busy! And napping is not something I usually do, but today it was exactly what I needed. And honestly, it felt glorious, the siesta is something sacred in the Henry household and I understand why. Afterwards, I got onto dinner, I made two lots of sourdough pizza dough today, using two different recipes to see which dough we like best. The sourdough pizza dough is quite yummy as it gives a yummy taste to the dough, but it needs to be precooked and takes a while to rise, and uses quite a lot of the starter so I don’t think it is going to be a weekly thing, but it has been fun to try out a few recipes! Bilbo was used three times today! (twice for dough and a third for bread, so I think I might give him a break tomorrow, or at least a double feeding as I am not sure if I should be using him that frequently, although he seemed to be happy and bubbling so maybe no harm done!). Benoit and I made pizzas while Joelle ran a few errands (including picking up some ice cream for our movie night tonight!). After dinner, we started watching a movie called ‘Roma’ a film set in Mexico in the 1970′s, it is in black and white, in Spanish and quite an artsy film. It won a few awards at the Venice film festival including the Golden Lion, and Best Foreign language film at the Academy awards, so highly nominated. But it wasn’t my favorite. But the ice cream was delicious, Joelle got us little individual pots of two flavours, I got coconut and lemon and wow, so delicious, reminded me of Italy as those were the flavours I always chose when it came to gelato. It was a real treat! Love Kate xxxxxx