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shewhomustOn Friday we attended our first funeral of the year: someone who was more than a neighbour, however long-standing, but not quite a friend. Long ago, we met him and his wife at the Sunday lunch / buffet / wine tastings conducted by our favourite restaurant (gone but not forgotten); more recently, he was the treasurer of our residents' association. We knew just enough of his life beyond this to know that when there was conflict between the schedules of the residents' group and the choir, his was one of the voices we could hear making music in the hall above our meeting room. So I wasn't surprised that the choir played a part in the funeral: but I had not known, for example, about the passion for trains...
On the way to the Farmers' Market in Sedgefield this morning, I saw the year's first rainbow: just a fuzzy stub of colour in a grey and drizzly sky, but welcome nonetheless.
First Farmers' Market of the year, too, and it too was just a promise of things to come - maybe hald the usual stalls, no baker (there are usually several), no cheesemaker... But it's worth the trip just for the winter veg. We supplemented this shopping with a visit to the Co-op: bananax, moustrap and - since they have a shelf of books on sale for a donation to charity - the first books: a biography of Kirsty MacColl, and Simon Hopkinson's Roast Chicken and Other Stories.
On the way to the Farmers' Market in Sedgefield this morning, I saw the year's first rainbow: just a fuzzy stub of colour in a grey and drizzly sky, but welcome nonetheless.
First Farmers' Market of the year, too, and it too was just a promise of things to come - maybe hald the usual stalls, no baker (there are usually several), no cheesemaker... But it's worth the trip just for the winter veg. We supplemented this shopping with a visit to the Co-op: bananax, moustrap and - since they have a shelf of books on sale for a donation to charity - the first books: a biography of Kirsty MacColl, and Simon Hopkinson's Roast Chicken and Other Stories.
