Food
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Dragon Fruit
This is a Dragon Fruit. I saw it at the Farmers’ Market because it looked spectacular and I had never tried one. TLDR – don’t bother. Like many exotic fruit, looks good tastes…
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Supermarkets
Since we have been here, we have been getting a weekly delivery of our groceries from Tesco. I am very used to getting all our food this way having done so for the…
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A Sunday Mystery
Our kitchen is getting replaced this week – so I have had to remove the entire contents while it is being done. It is surprising how much stuff there is and how much…
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Disgraceful onions
I happened to notice where the onions I just bought from Tesco originated from. Produce of New Zealand! This is quite honestly disgraceful – I will not be buying any vegetables from Tesco…
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Fruits of the garden
For all we are in an urban setting, the garden is full of life (too much so in one respect as I have just had to buy some insect repellent as I keep…
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Tiles and bread
We had the tilers here today putting up the new tiles in our main bathroom. This room was not in a good state when we moved in – it had a hideous 1990s…
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Sunday Lunch
One of the things I wanted to do when I moved here was lead a more “gracious” life. By this I do not mean the full on Hyacinth Bucket snobbery thing, but just…
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Oldies but goodies
A few blasts from the past today. Firstly – I hung my washing out in the garden. In Argyll the weather was much too temperamental to even attempt this – literally it could…
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Builders and plumbers and herbs and fish
Today we simultaneously had builders and plumbers in working on our new bathroom. The noise was something awful in my office, so I retreated to the garden, at which point it promptly began…
