This is a Lidl's wonky vegetable box, bought this morning, for £1.50. Not a wonky or mouldering vegetable in sight! Everything is fresh, firm and wholesome.
Broccoli spears, asparagus, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, onions, a swede, clementines, satsumas and lemons. Excellent value, wonderful quality.
Today was beautifully mild and sunny, once the early morning frost had cleared away. Toby found himself being taken for some extra walks, for I find it impossible to stay indoors when it is fine weather.
Just as well I made the most of it, I hear the weather is going to break at the weekend.
Wooster and Dolly were making the most of the sunshine and couldn't be bothered to do more than half open an eye.
The last time I took that route, a few days ago, Dolly refused to leave her stable at all, but Wooster insisted on coming over to have a conversation and a nose rub.
I don't know much about Dolly, but Wooster is about 30 years old. He looks his age these days, but he had his glory days and won lots of competitions in his youth.
He is a lucky lad, getting to live his life out in peace and comfort.
Dolly, who is as round as it is possible for one little pony to be, keeps him company.
He is content with his lot.
This is what I am reading today. Published in 1935, it is a collection of history, tradition, folk lore, flower names and herbal lore, gathered together by Members of Dorset Women's Institutes. Not a recipe in sight!
So far I have only had a quick skim through but it looks fascinating - no recipes, perhaps, but I have just discovered a couple of pages of old remedies...violets to treat cancer, Madonna lily to treat whitlows, and Groundsel as a cure for boils.
"Here's to you and yours
The good you and yours
Done to we and ours
If it be in our powers
To do the good to you and yours
You and yours done to we and ours
We'll do it."
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