If you listen carefully, you can hear Barry White playing in the background. Anyway, enough with the Moth Porn...the sunshine meant that I went out with out my cardi or my mac, so I was practically naked (well, compared to what I've been wearing so far this "summer" ) LOL.
There's a guy in Newbury market square with a book stall...10 books for £5...I can't even find books that cheap in the charity shops.... here's my little stash ..
Next door to the bookstall was a stall with Asian foodstuffs. They had spices and lentils and gulabjamun for sale. They were also offering free rice & tarka daal...delicious. Even better...they had printed out the recipe...
Guess what's for dinner here this evening....
The rest of the day was spent pottering in the garden...the lawn was mown, little bit of tidying and dead-heading....a little harvest of broad beans...
The pods had been pretty badly munched by the uber-slugs in the garden, and some woodlice had broken in and had themselves a little bean-feast..so these are the survivors. I'll be taking the tough outer skin off as I don't like that bit ( I always thought that I didn't like broad beans..turns out I love 'em...but only if the yucky tough skin is removed)
I even managed to get some washing out on the line to have a blow...
The piddled on feather duvet that I washed has been drying on the clothes airer all week, but I didn't think a blow through with some fresh air would do any harm at all.
Oooops...just looked up from the screen...it's getting dark...time to shut the chicken coop and call the kittens in from the garden with the time honoured call of "Who wants a sweetie?"
The chooks are moulting at the moment and have gone off lay...I had to go out and buy eggs - shock/horror!!!
Don't the normal chicken eggs make my girls ones look dainty?
No prizes for guessing which ones taste the best, though! Good things come in small packages. It sounds as though you had a wonderfully satisfying day. I love finding a really good cache of books. I enjoy the process of lugging them home, making a cup of tea, and then ponder over which one to read first...of course the cats, Toby and Little Red Hen usually interrupt, but I always think it is going to happen that way. I could very happily read through your selections - and what a bargain price!
ReplyDeleteI just love 'real' broad beans. I gave up growing them years ago because of black fly.
ReplyDeleteThousands of black fly. I must admit that I've never had trouble with slugs. (Except around the courgettes.) I'm growing those dwarf French beans this year. I change my varieties every year to try and get 'one up on' the slugs!
Cheers....B