Yes, I reallyreally do! For their staff are well trained, the shops are clean and the produce great. Why can't we have one of those stores instead of the endless mini other stores where everything is much more expensive and the produce.. NOT so great!
But as the title says.. her BIG hate is that OBSCENE Sainsburys at Sands End near to the Wandsworth Bridge Road.. it's useless. They've taken an amazing site and filled it with a pitiful store, the staff are badly trained, the produce half dead and it is not the cleanest place she's ever shopped (to put it politely).
But at least we have, thank goodness, our North End Road market, for what is not to like when you get 5 delicious Ruby Grapefruit for a £1.. $1.55? Or at the end of a day, 3 Honeydew Melons for a £1.00.
Ok, it is NOT a store and certainly some stalls produce are better than others but like all markets around the world, you look first and then you buy.
However, nothing beats Chinatown when it comes to green vegetables! How we jurst lurve Pak Choi! For lightly steamed and put into a bowl with Soya sauce, crushed, chopped garlic with grated ginger and maybe a poached egg on top.. slurp is what she says.. it makes a nutritious and tasty supper!
Boy oh boy.. what rain we have had! Hopefully lots of it has fallen on the allotments, for she plans to go there today, they've been neglected and she needs to do a huge amount of work to catch up on the weeds and to "do away" with the rest of those evil briars.
Our cherries are all of the much earlier varieties so we don't have any fruiting now but with these weather conditions, the English and Scottish Cherry crops are fantastic! She'll have to send Debbie Goat a message to ask her for lots with which to make everyone's favourite Christmas gift.. her homemade Kirsch with the secret ingredient!
No.. we are not that silly! So don't ask us what it is! I say that 'cos some.. no names will be told to save their faces.. silly folk actually asked her for it last year! Huh.. "go figure it out yourselves", was her reply.
Brrr.. cold and damp this morning.. I'm glad that I'm not going to the allotments but she must, so it's PipPip from me, I'm sorry this post is not full of exciting news but nothing of the exciting variety is happening in our life at the moment.
Except, of course, she is, in her own way, celebrating VJ Day - The end of war against the Japan. Seventy years. The Japanese Prime Minister has said some extraordinary things recently, only to be dismissed by several of his own troops who admit to having carried out various 'military actions' and for which they admit classifies themselves as war criminals.
So I'm going to doze on top of cupboard with old Beaky between my shoulder blades and she's got to be brave, climb into wet weather clothes.. TAKE the keys and trundle off in the rain to catch the bus to Chiswick.. rather her than me folks.
GeeGee Parrot.
August 15th, 2015.
But as the title says.. her BIG hate is that OBSCENE Sainsburys at Sands End near to the Wandsworth Bridge Road.. it's useless. They've taken an amazing site and filled it with a pitiful store, the staff are badly trained, the produce half dead and it is not the cleanest place she's ever shopped (to put it politely).
But at least we have, thank goodness, our North End Road market, for what is not to like when you get 5 delicious Ruby Grapefruit for a £1.. $1.55? Or at the end of a day, 3 Honeydew Melons for a £1.00.
Ok, it is NOT a store and certainly some stalls produce are better than others but like all markets around the world, you look first and then you buy.
However, nothing beats Chinatown when it comes to green vegetables! How we jurst lurve Pak Choi! For lightly steamed and put into a bowl with Soya sauce, crushed, chopped garlic with grated ginger and maybe a poached egg on top.. slurp is what she says.. it makes a nutritious and tasty supper!
Boy oh boy.. what rain we have had! Hopefully lots of it has fallen on the allotments, for she plans to go there today, they've been neglected and she needs to do a huge amount of work to catch up on the weeds and to "do away" with the rest of those evil briars.
Our cherries are all of the much earlier varieties so we don't have any fruiting now but with these weather conditions, the English and Scottish Cherry crops are fantastic! She'll have to send Debbie Goat a message to ask her for lots with which to make everyone's favourite Christmas gift.. her homemade Kirsch with the secret ingredient!
No.. we are not that silly! So don't ask us what it is! I say that 'cos some.. no names will be told to save their faces.. silly folk actually asked her for it last year! Huh.. "go figure it out yourselves", was her reply.
Brrr.. cold and damp this morning.. I'm glad that I'm not going to the allotments but she must, so it's PipPip from me, I'm sorry this post is not full of exciting news but nothing of the exciting variety is happening in our life at the moment.
Except, of course, she is, in her own way, celebrating VJ Day - The end of war against the Japan. Seventy years. The Japanese Prime Minister has said some extraordinary things recently, only to be dismissed by several of his own troops who admit to having carried out various 'military actions' and for which they admit classifies themselves as war criminals.
So I'm going to doze on top of cupboard with old Beaky between my shoulder blades and she's got to be brave, climb into wet weather clothes.. TAKE the keys and trundle off in the rain to catch the bus to Chiswick.. rather her than me folks.
GeeGee Parrot.
August 15th, 2015.
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