We both love these vegetables and have thrilling news for those of you who live in the UK and like them too. Do you have an ASDA shop near to you? We do, there's a huge one at Clapham Junction. It is up on the hill behind the big BOOTS store which is behind LIDL.. hello, are you up here with me or are you still wandering around down by the Falcon pub at the junction?
There is a very clever farmer, name unknown otherwise we'd be singing his or her name out loud! What have they done? What they've 'done', is to 'crack' growing Sweet Potatoes in England! In Kent, to be precise. And they've sold their entire crop to Asda and it will be in the stores soon or even now may already be on the shelves.
But why all this excitement.. well, you see NO ONE has ever managed to grow them commercially on a big scale in the UK before and they've always been imported, hence their high cost, but now this clever person has managed it and Asda are / will be selling them at 80p a kilo!
She goes through Clapham Junction on her way to Streatham High Road and will shortly be paying Messrs Asda a visit, with WW in attendance, for several kilos of these wondrous vegetables will be coming home with her, several will be baked, their flesh scooped out, mashed and frozen for future use, don't worry, we'll be eating those skins! And another favourite recipe is boil them with carrots and mash them with a dash of oil, ginger and spices, it makes a delicious nest for a poached egg.
It was raining 'slabs' of cold rain this morning.. and brrr it was too! Very brrrr indeed. Brass Monkeys and ChillyBilly would describe the wait for a bus to take her to the hospital. One of her hearing aids had given up working and the clever technician in the Drop in Clinic in the ENT department fixed it in a nano-second, all it needed was a new wire.
Yesterday was heavenly, a sunny warm day with no hint of this deluge of cold rain heading our way, she had legal stuff to do which took her down into the Victoria area and it was an extremely pleasant walk there and back, as she cut across town to avoid busy roads and the crowds of tourists that are all milling about.
Lordy, such an upheaval is happening! For the new heating system is going to be installed next week, gulp! Tomorrow is the day for emptying the secret stash of goodies from the boiler room, the gas engineer has to be able to access the inlet pipe and there's not a chance in hell he could even see the pipe at the moment, let alone work on it!
But tomorrow is another day and having done a lot of work today upon returning from the hospital, she's collecting together the library books that she's read and heading on out to change them in the Kings Road.
Books into WW, raincoat, keys, umbrella.. she's off out and I'm off to doze on pole.. PipPip.
GeeGee Parrot.
October 21st, 2015.
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