Soup approval

Overcast with gusts of wind blowing from the west again, colder today with the sun struggling to penetrate the cloud. Housework after breakfast, then I made the slideshow to go with next week's Morning Prayer audio and uploaded the video to YouTube. Clare cooked lunch, and afterwards was taken by taxi to the School of Optometry to provide students an opportunity to practice using diagnostic instruments on a live glaucoma patient. 

I went to the Coop to buy chicken pieces which I slow-cooked in the oven when I got back. I also roasted the content of five heads of garlic, to use in another garlic soup experiment, along with the slow-cooked chicken stock, just for the pleasure of trying different recipe variations, thanks to the abundance of freshly picked garlic we have at the moment. Then a walk around Llandaff Fields for an hour, wishing I'd worn a top coat before returning to warm up.

Clare went out to choir practice and I finished watching 'West Wall' before supper. In the last episode the conspirators plan is thwarted with much dramatic violence that I was surprised the baddies and goodies survived until the happy ending despite their injuries. Despite the improbability of the plot, much of the story worked well as a mystery drama involving German state security and intelligence services and the police, though it's a bit difficult to identify which side the secretive operatives are on. In the end it turns out there's a neo-nazi 'mole' at work on behalf of a group of conspirators. Given the surviving baddie count the story ending proposes a second series, but there's no hint of this so far.

When Clare returned from choir practice she tried the sopa de ajo and this time it met with her approval. I look forward to trying it tomorrow.

I spent the evening after supper reading 'Sangre Nueva'. I only have the final chapter to read now. I don't have the other two parts of this saga, but I have two other thick novels waiting to be read, before I start looking.