Food, Glorious Food by Cathy Bramley

Author:Cathy Bramley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473541023
Publisher: Transworld

Chapter 7

For the next few days I threw myself into my new life in Plumberry. In Gloria’s cottage I had the dearest little room at the top of the house with views across the Yorkshire Dales and my own en suite shower room. Comfrey and Sage, in spite of only having the shortest of legs, had taken it upon themselves to wake me every morning by scampering up the stairs and barking at my door until I let them in and up on to the bed for a cuddle. It was a lovely way to greet the day.

Mags and Gloria were inseparable and watching them together reminded me so much of the pleasure Mimi and I used to derive from each other’s company. I didn’t really know why they kept separate houses as they took it in turns to cook each night, and they didn’t mind a bit that so far I hadn’t returned the favour.

However, I did help Gloria make beef wellington on my first Friday night. In true Gloria style, it was not only delicious, but it was a feast for the eyes and I’d been quite emotional as the three of us sat down to eat. The fact that the first proper dinner I’d cooked in two years was a team effort with Mimi’s mum made the meal all the more delicious. I’d missed cooking, I realized, and eating proper food. Spending time with Gloria in her kitchen did make me remember Mimi, and the two of us had shed a tear together after the others had gone on that first night after Mags’s scouse, but it also made me feel as if I was regaining a part of me that had been missing since she died.

My old job at Solomon Insurance, Ruthless Rod and even my relationship with Liam seemed like memories best forgotten, although I did miss my little house in Nottingham. I’d spoken to Rosie a few times and apparently Liam had turned up on our doorstep after I’d ignored all his messages. Rosie had taken great delight in telling him I wasn’t there.

‘Told him if he showed his two-faced face again, he’d be swimming with the fishes,’ she’d informed me briskly.

In fact, the only person who was sad about my break-up with Liam was Mum.

‘Oh love,’ she’d groaned down the phone when I’d rung to update her on my whereabouts. ‘I just want to see you settled.’

‘I know, Mum,’ I’d replied, ‘but I don’t think I should settle for anything less than I deserve, do you?’

And right now a month in the delightful village of Plumberry with no man troubles was exactly what I deserved.

I started work on Wednesday and spent two days with a web designer building a website and a day at the printers, where a very nice man drew us a logo for the cookery school. Between us we concocted a leaflet for the open day, some advertising for the newspaper that Gloria had booked and had the beginnings of a brochure worked up.

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