Hi there, I hope you are well.

It's cold, it's time for apple crumble so today I took myself down to my local super market to get the perfect ingredients. Of course this doesn't come with it's own issues. Firstly arrive and for the life of me I can't find a pound coin for the trollies! So this didn't start well, of course I have a plan, change my ten pound not for 10 pound coins, however the first 2 check out lads haven't got any pound coins left (note to the management, get more pound coins)... anyway. I finally get my pound coins and therefore my rain sodden trolley.

My list consists of the following - Bramley apples (of course), plain flour, unsalted butter, brown sugar, ground cinnamon and unrefined brown sugar.

This looks like a list I can work with, however, whoever heard of unrefined brown sugar? Not me but the search continues. I fail to find this but luckily there is a very lady who points me in the right direction with a slight look of sympathy on her face. The reason for the sympathy was that it was in fact very VERY close to the old normal brown sugar I had just picked up. Silly me.

Right, I got the list, I'm heading for the check out, I spy some cheeky shandy as I head down the isle to the the check outs. Now I'm normally a ales man myself but my fiancee loves a shandy and she is also pregnant so of course can't have any alcohol. A shandy with a alcohol content of less and 0.5 %, I'm sure a tiny one of these can't hurt. So I grab her a couple. Head to the check out proud of myself that I have actually achieved the goal of getting everything on the list plus added an additional bonus for the misses.

So, I'm at the check out, my stuff is being put through, I'm thinking about making my apple crumble and the girl behind the check out asks me for ID, I thought she was joking for 2 reasons firstly because I'm 32 years old and secondly I because it shandy!! Anyway, she won't budge, I'm not worried at this point as I have my wallet in my back pocket with my drivers licence in it, so after asking her, in an annoyed voice if she was joking or not I proudly go to present my drivers licence....... would you believe it, it's not there! I left it at home. Now I would normally give up on the booze in the situation but the principle is that i'm 32 and its only flipping shandy and also, I want my (fiancee's) shandy with my apple crumble.

They won't let me through after 5 minutes of arguing. I then spot in the distance my fiancee's father. To cut a rather longer version of this story shorter I bought my apple crumble recipe ingredients and headed home but just as I was leaving I text my future father in-law to get me some shandy. 20 minutes later he turns up and mine and drops it off. SAINSBURY's I WON!!

You know when food taste better the harder it is to get your hands on it, well my apple crumble that night was out of the this world! Added my favorite ice cream to it too. lovely.

Hope making your apple crumble isn't as difficult as mine! Have a great day