Back in the pool!

Temperature shot up today - over 70F by the afternoon - so I went to the pool at 9.0 am for water aerobics.  The water was not quite as warm as it's been before and it was cloudy, but the exercise was wonderful!   Came home, had a hot shower and a cup of coffee and shot off again for lunch with an artist friend Mary.  Long gossipy lunch (mainly consisting of lettuce) and then back home again to prepare food for dinner on Saturday night at Carol's.  My contribution is Monica's red pepper soup and Nigel Slater's Moroccan chicken, baked rather than flash fried.  The soup is easy to make but the blending of it in a temperamental blender liable to go off like Vesuvius was touch and go.  Got the chickens jointed and in the bag with the marinade and then couldn't face making supper, so we went out to the Sichuan restaurant we like and met Phyllis and Davis by chance.  So a long, happy and sociable day!