I have never seen 'Star Wars' or eaten a macaroon....

'Tis true

 However as a  box of macaroons were reduced the other day in the supermarket  I thought:

 'What the heck - we only live once...'

'I might as well go for it'

 Live life to the full I thought.

Now given the price of these macaroons - even with the reduction - I thought them to be very expensive indeed (I cannot quite remember now - so badly scarred was I by the price - but it was pounds not pence).

I think that I really bought them because I liked the purdy colours!!

Oh dear!

'Shallow am I'

(Ho ho. I have  seen the adverts!)

I carried the macaroons aloft as I wended my way home....carried high above my head.......singing as I went.....

I like to build up a bit of an atmoss (well I had to in order to make them worthwhile).

I am not quite sure now but I think that I gathered a trail of small children (a la Pied Piper) as I tra la la'd along.

I may have encouraged them to join in......

I may have demonstrated arm movements to accompany the community singing...

People may have left shops, pubs, nearby houses as we gathered pace.

I may have choreographed the harmony section and instructed certain elements to dance where appropriate.

Newspaper reporters and television crew may have descended as word travelled across the community.....

THE MACAROONS ARE COMING!!!!

I may have embarrassed my own children a little bit......

Who would have thought that a macaroon could engender so much interest.

I dispatched  the gathered crowds and told them that I would not be sharing the macaroons

I had to sternly tell small children that no amount of boo hoo'ing would get them a macaroon crumb

'Tis a harsh fact of life

When they were grown up they would understand and they would appreciate their own macaroon all the more (this may be a metaphor for childhood dear Claire if you should read this!)

Macaroons are a luxury good and only to be partaken sparingly

A treat is not a treat if consumed on a daily basis (chocco being the exception.....)

If children were seen to be wolfing down macaroon crumbs where would it all end

After closing all blinds so that sad faces could not be seen I selected appropriate china/tablecloth and sat down to eat the aforementioned  macaroons

(repeat photograph with slightly different tilt...)

They were quite nice

A few days later we were in London and spotted the most fabulous looking patisserie  (is that the right spelling?) in Covent Garden.  There...... glowing in the window were........ MACAROONS.

Each macaroon was the price of a small car but I bought another MACAROON.

It was magnificent

'Tis another harsh fact of life that I probably will never see 'Star Wars' and possibly will never eat another MACAROON but I will remember that one for all time.

Are you a macaroon maker?

Note that the GBBO is back very soon!!! Hurrah

The End

PS: Adding this in here in case you feel cheated by such  paucity of images.  I searched my image banks and found these taken earlier this year (photographs are a bit dark due to lack of sunlight at that time).  I take an awful lot of photographs (or is that a lot of awful photographs.....).  I bought these teeny cups (£1) from a Spring car boot and thought that they were perfect for cake (of course):

Not too many words in this section

Nearly forgot to add the cakes in!

I recall that these were particularly fine little cakes

All vintage embroidered tablecloths are equal - though some are more equal than others....

Thank you again for very kind comments about my half baked wrap dress - I will have a go at completing it  all being well!  Just a word about top stitching - I can 'hold the line' so long as I don't blink!  If I blink the whole thing goes Pete Tong and wobbly!  I am thinking of manufacturing an eye lid propper upper!!

Delighted that Ann won The Great British Sewing Bee - a triumph of, and for, attention to detail and no shortcuts (cough, cough....)

Adding in my usual no Pinterest request - thank you - though I see that someone has already posted them there - despite no pin, etc, etc, etc. Today  I am very much feeling like giving up with blogging...

 I am rather partial to a nice embroidered tablecloth - one or two of these I have shown before but as I got these out when my sisters came to stay at Easter time I thought I would photograph some of them 'en masse' as 'twere.

I have taken other photographs that show these tablecloths with the 'matching' china ready for tea time!  I will post those separately I think

This may seem a bit odd but these are not necessarily my favourite tablecloths - I have some quirky printed ones that I like muchly and some embroidered ones that are not so 'fancy' but have little details that I love

 I would like to eat these....

And these......

The one below I have shown before but always worthy of another outing don't you think.  Swags and garlands aplenty

And some all together

The one below I have had several times over and a damaged one I made into a bag.... I have got other pieces left over from it somewhere

I particularly like embroidered wild flowers -  clover, buttercups and daisies are especially lovely

The detail of the falling petal I particularly like

 Too much?

The one below has a few broken threads.... and sister Sue dropped jam on it..... gasps of horror

Go on - get your cloths out and use them.  That is what they were built for!

PS: Just adding these photos in for Barbara - sorry that my email is soooo useless and slow Barbara so posting these to show the backs for you!