A breath of damp air
Feb. 8th, 2019 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI didn't absolutely have to go out this morning. It was raining, and I could have put together today's meals from what was in the house.
But I've been promising myself to get out more. And I wanted to buy some fruit and veg. And to see how the snowdrops are coming along.
So I went out.
There are snowdrops fully open in one of the front gardens down the hill, but the ones in St Margaret's churchyard are tight little spearheads still. Masses of them, and it won't be long. I was glad I'd taken the (longer, slippery) path through the churchyard, but I wasn't sorry I'd decided against bringing my camera.
I visited Sainsbury's and the greengrocer (blood oranges!) and a good half dozen charity shops in between. I bought a nice clean hardback of The Once and Future King, of which, mysteriously, I seem not to have a copy (although looking at the shelf where it might be, I see that I was right to pass on the Morte d'Arthur) and some handkerchiefs fordurham_rambler (because I have been throwing away the tattiest of his collection as they appear in the ironing pile).
It's a small achievement, but I'm disproportionately pleased with myself.
But I've been promising myself to get out more. And I wanted to buy some fruit and veg. And to see how the snowdrops are coming along.
So I went out.
There are snowdrops fully open in one of the front gardens down the hill, but the ones in St Margaret's churchyard are tight little spearheads still. Masses of them, and it won't be long. I was glad I'd taken the (longer, slippery) path through the churchyard, but I wasn't sorry I'd decided against bringing my camera.
I visited Sainsbury's and the greengrocer (blood oranges!) and a good half dozen charity shops in between. I bought a nice clean hardback of The Once and Future King, of which, mysteriously, I seem not to have a copy (although looking at the shelf where it might be, I see that I was right to pass on the Morte d'Arthur) and some handkerchiefs for
durham_rambler (because I have been throwing away the tattiest of his collection as they appear in the ironing pile).It's a small achievement, but I'm disproportionately pleased with myself.
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Date: 2019-02-09 12:32 pm (UTC)I do love blood oranges and their juice (which is harder to find in the UK than you'd think).
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Date: 2019-02-09 03:24 pm (UTC)Really? This is pretty much when I expect them. Maybe a little early, but following on from the Seville oranges - and it's one of the things I like about them, that they have a season.
The juice is an occasional treat. We once complained to the company that we couldn't find it, and were told that it, too, is seasonal - I'm not sure that that is still the case!