Shiny red patent bags is what they look like, they being two air-sealed bags each containing 500g of Velluto Nero ~ her favourite coffee from The Algerian Coffee Store in Old Compton Street. Then she went across Shaftesbury Avenue into Chinatown for she had run out of Langhams Garlic & Ginger sauce and wanted Chinese vegetables. Kai-Lan, Choi Sum and Pak Choi for lunch.
We had these steamed with crushed garlic and grated ginger.. slurp.. and as she had come away with half a huge watermelon, full of big black extra crunchy seeds.. we had a big slice of this for pudding so more slurping went on.
Then it was time to go and hunt for a couple of boxes for the package which has to go to Plymouth, she sees no point in just buying a box from MailBoxEtc when there are all manner of boxes being thrown away every day. But she did finally collect her little package from them and very happy with the contents, is she!
There were no artichokes to be had in Soho! And as she was now on the hunt, she hopped a bus to North End Road, maybe Liz and Marks's stall would have them? Success.. they were there, big and fat and hard ones, very fresh at £1.00 each, for when this woman wants artichokes, she wants them now and her own are not ready yet!
Home via the shop to collect a glorious piece of Javanese fabric that was donated about a month ago, nobody wanted it, she is going to make it into a kimono style coat, she'll line it in a thin wadding and then following the pattern, she'll embroider through the cloth and the wadding, then line it in satin.
It will be a project for this winter, to do when days are short, evenings long and she can do this tucked up on the sofa. She also picked up a pair of very stiff clips, she needed one for the garden keys to the gate and little shed, they have a strong fabric section through which a belt goes so she will always have the keys on her for security. The other set she'll attach to her house keys.
Windy.. it was very windy indeed today! Are we going to get this dreadful weather tomorrow they've been warning us about? Today was sunny and warm but the breeze was 'stiff', it would have been a glorious day to be out on the water in a sail boat.
Tomorrow we will wait in for the Goaty milk delivery, hopefully it will come in the morning and IF the weather is not too gruesome, she'll hop a bus out to the plots to see if the men have finished the job and kept to their side of bargain.. having been paid.
And she'll pick peonies and roses whilst she's there, they were all coming along last week so there should be plenty ready to be picked by now and there'll be lots more yellow cherries to pick too!
Now it is time to fire up the grill.. we've got a couple of thick, mint marinated lamb chops for supper, how I just love picking those bones! And there's a new tub of hummus, in fact, a reallyreally slurpicious supper awaits us, when she stops tapping this post and we go into YumYum HQ!
Flap-a-dap-a-doo!
GeeGee Parrot.
June 11th, 2015.
We had these steamed with crushed garlic and grated ginger.. slurp.. and as she had come away with half a huge watermelon, full of big black extra crunchy seeds.. we had a big slice of this for pudding so more slurping went on.
Then it was time to go and hunt for a couple of boxes for the package which has to go to Plymouth, she sees no point in just buying a box from MailBoxEtc when there are all manner of boxes being thrown away every day. But she did finally collect her little package from them and very happy with the contents, is she!
There were no artichokes to be had in Soho! And as she was now on the hunt, she hopped a bus to North End Road, maybe Liz and Marks's stall would have them? Success.. they were there, big and fat and hard ones, very fresh at £1.00 each, for when this woman wants artichokes, she wants them now and her own are not ready yet!
Home via the shop to collect a glorious piece of Javanese fabric that was donated about a month ago, nobody wanted it, she is going to make it into a kimono style coat, she'll line it in a thin wadding and then following the pattern, she'll embroider through the cloth and the wadding, then line it in satin.
It will be a project for this winter, to do when days are short, evenings long and she can do this tucked up on the sofa. She also picked up a pair of very stiff clips, she needed one for the garden keys to the gate and little shed, they have a strong fabric section through which a belt goes so she will always have the keys on her for security. The other set she'll attach to her house keys.
Windy.. it was very windy indeed today! Are we going to get this dreadful weather tomorrow they've been warning us about? Today was sunny and warm but the breeze was 'stiff', it would have been a glorious day to be out on the water in a sail boat.
Tomorrow we will wait in for the Goaty milk delivery, hopefully it will come in the morning and IF the weather is not too gruesome, she'll hop a bus out to the plots to see if the men have finished the job and kept to their side of bargain.. having been paid.
And she'll pick peonies and roses whilst she's there, they were all coming along last week so there should be plenty ready to be picked by now and there'll be lots more yellow cherries to pick too!
Now it is time to fire up the grill.. we've got a couple of thick, mint marinated lamb chops for supper, how I just love picking those bones! And there's a new tub of hummus, in fact, a reallyreally slurpicious supper awaits us, when she stops tapping this post and we go into YumYum HQ!
Flap-a-dap-a-doo!
GeeGee Parrot.
June 11th, 2015.
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