It was a day to do chores today, yes, I know she was supposed to be working but she has done something really stupid to her right wrist, it is swollen and very painful, so it is now strapped up and does / would not allow her to do any steaming or sorting.
Luckily old Wicker does not mind which hand pulls him along and off they went to the market to get our fruit.
Five delicious avocados for a pound, thank you! Fresh herbs at fifty pence for a huge bunch, yum! SpinyApples, two for one pound fifty, even better. Dear old Wicker just swallowed them up and said "where to next?"
A little bit further along there is a middle eastern shop whose olives and humous are extremely tasty and she was going into the shop when she spied her favourite variety of watermelon.
"Good morning, how much are the watermelons?" she asked the man behind the till who said "£4.50" but the 'boss' who is the butcher looked up and called out in Arabic to the man and then said to her, "no, different price, to you they are £3.00".
Very startled she smiled and said "but why do I get them so cheap, what have I done?".. boss smiled and waved his hand to the sign behind his head which read 'We sell fresh Goat's meat' and said to her "remember that you told me that the wording on the old sign that said 'We sell Goats' was wrong and you taught me the proper way to write it in good English, you are our new English teacher so you get good price in my shop!"
And he gave her a huge grin, such a funny man! They all laughed and she did her best imitation of a goat bleating which made them laugh even more!
He runs one of the best stocked shops in the market, with fresh humous, olives, freekeh wheat, sesame oil (for her skin) black seed oil and a huge selection of spices and dried herbs.
She then went into her bank to get money and the business manager came up to her grinning, she smiled at him and said "how is your jaw?", for the last time she saw him, about two weeks ago, his face had been swollen, he was in great pain and he had difficulty talking, she had told him about her great dentist who was at the bottom of the market.
Today he thanked her profusely, for he had gone that day in his lunch break, the lovely Dr. Miraj had solved the problem, within twenty minutes his jaw was reducing in size and the pain had gone! And now he, his wife and their two children are now all registered at her dental practise!
Onto 'Sicilia' to thank Daniela for her delicious sausages. And found herself giving her Daniela the contact details for The Little Printed Ribbon Company, for ribbons, business cards and labels, you can't beat their quality and service!
This is what is so lovely about using a place where you know your food suppliers and getting to know who has the best whatever.
She knows that Mark has great avocados, Karen has good fruit and vegetables, there were bowls of Jersey Royals today, she'll have some of those tat the weekend with fresh mint together with home grown sprouting greens and she saw rhubarb was in the market today.
Dressmaker Carolyn has a new grandchild, an 8lbs plus boy with long legs and arms, he will be tall like his mummy. Nice happy news, she will take something for Carolyn, her mother and her to eat with their coffee next week, some of Daniela's delicious Sicilian pastries will be perfect.
We have tiny lamb chops for supper tonight, the little ones with the fillet, so sweet. And she will have some of the roasted tea that Tereza brought us home from Japan. I have smelt it and it is truly wonderful, do you think it could be served in the early morning for our first 'slurp' of the day? I wonder, Dear Readers, I wonder if it could?
So despite having a sore paw she had a happy day but the bestest thing was being told "you are our new English teacher"!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 24th, 2014.
Luckily old Wicker does not mind which hand pulls him along and off they went to the market to get our fruit.
Five delicious avocados for a pound, thank you! Fresh herbs at fifty pence for a huge bunch, yum! SpinyApples, two for one pound fifty, even better. Dear old Wicker just swallowed them up and said "where to next?"
A little bit further along there is a middle eastern shop whose olives and humous are extremely tasty and she was going into the shop when she spied her favourite variety of watermelon.
"Good morning, how much are the watermelons?" she asked the man behind the till who said "£4.50" but the 'boss' who is the butcher looked up and called out in Arabic to the man and then said to her, "no, different price, to you they are £3.00".
Very startled she smiled and said "but why do I get them so cheap, what have I done?".. boss smiled and waved his hand to the sign behind his head which read 'We sell fresh Goat's meat' and said to her "remember that you told me that the wording on the old sign that said 'We sell Goats' was wrong and you taught me the proper way to write it in good English, you are our new English teacher so you get good price in my shop!"
And he gave her a huge grin, such a funny man! They all laughed and she did her best imitation of a goat bleating which made them laugh even more!
He runs one of the best stocked shops in the market, with fresh humous, olives, freekeh wheat, sesame oil (for her skin) black seed oil and a huge selection of spices and dried herbs.
She then went into her bank to get money and the business manager came up to her grinning, she smiled at him and said "how is your jaw?", for the last time she saw him, about two weeks ago, his face had been swollen, he was in great pain and he had difficulty talking, she had told him about her great dentist who was at the bottom of the market.
Today he thanked her profusely, for he had gone that day in his lunch break, the lovely Dr. Miraj had solved the problem, within twenty minutes his jaw was reducing in size and the pain had gone! And now he, his wife and their two children are now all registered at her dental practise!
Onto 'Sicilia' to thank Daniela for her delicious sausages. And found herself giving her Daniela the contact details for The Little Printed Ribbon Company, for ribbons, business cards and labels, you can't beat their quality and service!
This is what is so lovely about using a place where you know your food suppliers and getting to know who has the best whatever.
She knows that Mark has great avocados, Karen has good fruit and vegetables, there were bowls of Jersey Royals today, she'll have some of those tat the weekend with fresh mint together with home grown sprouting greens and she saw rhubarb was in the market today.
Dressmaker Carolyn has a new grandchild, an 8lbs plus boy with long legs and arms, he will be tall like his mummy. Nice happy news, she will take something for Carolyn, her mother and her to eat with their coffee next week, some of Daniela's delicious Sicilian pastries will be perfect.
We have tiny lamb chops for supper tonight, the little ones with the fillet, so sweet. And she will have some of the roasted tea that Tereza brought us home from Japan. I have smelt it and it is truly wonderful, do you think it could be served in the early morning for our first 'slurp' of the day? I wonder, Dear Readers, I wonder if it could?
So despite having a sore paw she had a happy day but the bestest thing was being told "you are our new English teacher"!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 24th, 2014.
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