English recipe Heinz baked beans

It's been a day of ups and downs. Surprising only because it isn't yet mid-day.

UPs =
1. Was told yesterday that I didn't have to come into work until noon, and then only for a meeting.
2. It's cold, but the southerly has stopped blasting us (there was ice on the windscreen, a first for me since moving to Wellington).
3. Got to stay in bed a little bit longer.
4. Gert & I enjoyed a refreshing trip to the beach.
5. Stopped off at the supermarket to deal with a sudden hankering for beans on toast and noticed, for the first time since moving to NZ, that they were selling the mythical 'English recipe Heinz baked beans' (bought 4 tins).

DOWNs =
1. Alarm still went off at 6am and Jo kept talking to me whilst I was desperately trying to stay asleep until at least 8am.
2. It's very chilly in the study (note to kind reader - number of lesbians it takes to warm up a room in Wellington depends on multiple factors: size of room, size of lesbian, etc).
3. Staying in bed longer means listening to Radio NZ longer and their crap arse journalists. Today's earth-shattering revelation was that it's taken over a year to investigate and prosecute some bloke who sub-let his council house...for god's sake find something relevant to talk about. And as an ex-civil servant, I think a year is pretty good going.
4. The beach was also freezing.
5. Having flitted about in the car got home to find nowhere to park within a 3 street radius of our house (trust me, this is not good). Spent 20 mins looking for a space and finally gave up and parked in residents only (though we are residents, we haven't coughed up $90 for a permit, so aren't allowed to park there). Last time I did that I got a parking ticket.

But the baked beans were worth it. For those of you who are curious the difference is in the quantity of sugar - NZ baked beans have about 8 or 9g of sugar per 100g, whereas English ones only have 5g.

I have to go to work now, for my meeting. I am very important.