Thomas and the fromage frais!

The day started as most Monday mornings do - rushing around, never quite finishing anything before being called away to the next task! With quite a bit of cooking to do for clients this week a trip to Waitrose was near the top of the list. I know it like the back of my hand, in fact I'm probably almost as informed Waitrose's own employees as to where to find almost any ingredient I or anyone else could possibly want. It is a different challenge that I now face - as there are certain items that my little Lucy very determinedly thinks that we need to buy on every single visit... a large block of Parmesan cheese, a new toothbrush, a small tub of Green and Black's very delicious vanilla ice cream and a large block of peppermint Aero....  Its best to try to avoid these aisles altogether but as the Aero is opposite the oats that I needed and the ice cream is opposite the butter, the tooth brushes are at floor level and there's no way of her not spotting the long cheese counter today's shopping wasn't without its challenges. As a compromise we ended up coming home with some 'Thomas Tank' strawberry fromage frais... the irony of that being that usually she won't touch the strawberry ones she only likes the apricot ones. When we got home she devoured 2 pots of strawberry - and all because 'Thomas tank' and 'Percy' (a green engine) were on the lids of the pots!