Goodbye London... Hello Aberdeen, Again.

As the festivities die down, I bid farewell to London and return to Aberdeen, hopefully for longer than 6 weeks this time.

4 of us are back at the flat, all having returned from a break that went by too quickly. Only Steph is not back yet, still enjoying herself in France.

Before the Christmas break, there was a mass "giving" season. Students from all over Aberdeen who were going away for the holiday gave their perishables away... Bread, cakes, pies, eggs, vegetables, cheese, milk, and fruits made their way around Aberdeen. Students who left immediately after school closed gave their food to others who were leaving a week later. When those students left, they passed the food to the rest who were not going away for Christmas. Afterall, it would be inhumane to let them starve while we were all enjoying our holidays. Bless our kind and loving hearts...

Hence, one of the first things all of us did when we got back was to buy food. Obviously many other people did the same because when I got to the supermarket, many of the shelves were empty and I couldn't get half the things on my shopping list. No bread! No mushrooms! No tomatoes!

Anyway, Julia went shopping first thing in the morning, Karina went shopping with her mum and sister, while Elli and I did online shopping and had our stuff delivered (otherwise she wouldn't be able to get 16 bottles of lemonade up the hill) then decided we didn't have enough and went to the supermarket again in the evening and bought more food! So now, all the freezers, fridges and cupboards are stuffed full of food and all of us need not worry about starving for the next week or so.

I have decided, after a period of over-eating (Elli's dad is a fantastic cook), to have a "detox" week and hence filled the cupboard and the fridge with healthy food - lean meat, cabbage, carrot (yes, one large carrot), potatoes, beans, grapes, green tea, ribena (Zac says drinking Ribena will make one clever), Hoegaarden (it's barley AND wheat. How much more healthy can it get?) and eggs.

I'm very pleased with my attempt to have a healthy diet this week...