Nutty as a Fruitcake

This is my first day away from home since starting my blog. This meant I was faced with having to take pictures of my meal at the hotel. I had a practice of flashless photography in my room first and I’m hoping the quality is good enough.

Breakfast was cinnamon porridge with a sliced banana and my plum comport. This was a lovely mix of hot and spicy, cold and fruity.

Porridge with banana and plum

I had a team telecon first thing, followed by a drive through the snowy countryside to Dorset for work. Only to be faced with an icerink car park when I arrived.

A busy morning and two lunch time meetings meant lunch was in three stages. The first at two o’clock, the second phase at three and the rest at five. My planned roast pork had to be replaced with leftover chili as we were piggies ourselves and finished the joint yesterday! Still the chili went well with the broccoli, cauliflower and potatoes. Two clementines and lunchies for something sweet.

The afternoon flew by and by the end of the working day my brain was buzzing. A quick drive to the hotel, a couple of phonecalls and I checked in. I bought a skinny vanilla latte from the starbucks on the ground flour and went to practice my photos. What do you think of the results?

I’m staying at the Village in Bournemouth, which is a good chain that is aimed at the business traveller Dinner was French onion soup which was tasty.

I followed this with a turkey burger with veg instead of chips. I drank spring water and felt too full at the end. It was well prepared but the portion size was way too large.

I think the photos have turned out well….. brilliant.