Our First Dinner at Home
Monday, June 12
Ed settled down with his beer and the nuts I had bought, and we put on the TV to watch BBC World News. Meanwhile, I set the table, cut up some of our bread, put out the butter, the sausage, and the cheese, and put the little meat pies in the toaster oven. I made Ed wash the plates, silverware and glasses we would be using – he objected, but did it anyway! The water didn’t seem very hot, but I thought I would worry about that later.
Our first dinner “at home” in Kharkiv was delicious. One of the meat pies was sausage, one was some sort of cheese, like a goat cheese, and the other was some inedible and unidentifiable substance. The sausage, bread and butter and cheese were fabulous. We had some of our new tea and Ed ate the cookies we had bought (I didn’t like mine – the outside layer was good, but it was filled with something I didn’t like). By this time we were really tired, so we just got into bed with our new sheets and read for a little while before going to sleep. There’s a TV in the bedroom too, but it only has cable, no satellite, so there are no English channels – not that there are that many on the satellite either – before going to bed I went through the first 1000 channels on the satellite (yes, really – 1000 – and there are more!!!), and even though things like HBO and Cinemax and BBC Prime were listed, they were obviously not on the package provided at this apartment, and all we could find was CNN International and BBC World. So BBC World it is – for the time being at least.
Ed settled down with his beer and the nuts I had bought, and we put on the TV to watch BBC World News. Meanwhile, I set the table, cut up some of our bread, put out the butter, the sausage, and the cheese, and put the little meat pies in the toaster oven. I made Ed wash the plates, silverware and glasses we would be using – he objected, but did it anyway! The water didn’t seem very hot, but I thought I would worry about that later.
Our first dinner “at home” in Kharkiv was delicious. One of the meat pies was sausage, one was some sort of cheese, like a goat cheese, and the other was some inedible and unidentifiable substance. The sausage, bread and butter and cheese were fabulous. We had some of our new tea and Ed ate the cookies we had bought (I didn’t like mine – the outside layer was good, but it was filled with something I didn’t like). By this time we were really tired, so we just got into bed with our new sheets and read for a little while before going to sleep. There’s a TV in the bedroom too, but it only has cable, no satellite, so there are no English channels – not that there are that many on the satellite either – before going to bed I went through the first 1000 channels on the satellite (yes, really – 1000 – and there are more!!!), and even though things like HBO and Cinemax and BBC Prime were listed, they were obviously not on the package provided at this apartment, and all we could find was CNN International and BBC World. So BBC World it is – for the time being at least.
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