Spaghetti with Shrimp and Spinach

What a weird day it's been. There have been bursts of glorious sunshine interspersed with dark clouds, thunder and heavy rain. Wonderful for the garden, I suppose. With the month coming to an end (and therefore awaiting payday) we pottered around the house and garden for most of the day. At about 5pm though, we saw a window of sunshine and made the most of it by dragging on our running shoes and having a good run up and down along the river. We returned with tanks empty, to find equally Old-Mother-Hubbard bare cupboards.

A quick scout round the kitchen and a vague recollection of a meal a friend ate once, I knocked this up. I cooked some spaghetti and while it cooked I toasted some ciabatta. In a pan I gently cooked two cloves of garlic, half a lemon, wilted the spinach, threw in the shrimp (tinned) and stirred in two teaspoons red pesto and one teaspoon harissa. Lumped together, it gave just the right hit of carbs. I think I will definitely keep this as a reserve dinner (thinking frozen spinach at a push). Would have been even nicer with more spinach but we are woefully low in the food department at the moment - roll on payday!

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In other news. We had an unexpected guest who took full advantage of the fact we left the back door open.

Can you guess what it is yet?

After making itself fully (un)comfortable on the bookcase:

It (he?) leapt straight towards the only breakable thing within its radius. Luckily, it is VERY heavy and unlikely to be knocked over by a gambolling beast just out of kittenhood.

And, on cue, he came snuffling in as we ate our shrimpy dinner.