Grrr.. how was she to know that there were so many road works on the way to Squires, the journey took or seemed to take twice as long and she had forgotten to take a book with her.
But the day was sunny and there is always something to look at on the way, including spying a large Morrisons in the middle of Brentford.
What a joy Squires is to visit! The staff are great, as are all of their plants which are properly maintained.
The only disappointment was that there was a 20 minute wait to be served in the restaurant.. gulp.. that's what happens over half term.. note to self, never go again at half term time!
So she left with an empty tummy but not an empty Wicker Wheelie!
They had put aside two Black Elderberry plants, they were good sized plants, so she took them both.
Then, as she plans to eat more berries this year, she asked Toby, one of the outside staff, if they had strawberry plants in yet and where they were if they had.
He took her to the section and she chose two of three different varieties and found a few more varieties up near to the herb section when she was hunting for French Tarragon.
Her bill was just a fraction over £50 and as she going with Dean on Friday to pick up fence supports and other stuff from B&Q on Friday, we will be on a tight budget for the next month!
Thank goodness for things in white frosty larder and our dry stores and our green vegetables from the allotment.
Mizuna, Pak Choi, Rocket and Japanese Mustard leaves come home with her each time she goes out there and mighty tasty they are too!
On the way home she got off in the middle of Brentford and went into the BIG Morrisons store.
She has a great affection for this company, their generosity when she was fundraising for Polio with the Rotarians was staggering, so spends her money with them whenever she can but sadly, there isn't a store close to where we live.
She picked up a box of four pots of Tete a Tete narcissi and pot of hyacinths - both at a good price - to give as a gift to Myra with whom she is having supper later this week.
Nice store, large, well maintained, lots of staff, they give 5 points for every £ you spend, she has a lot of points on her card from when she shopped at their superstore that used to be in Streatham.
Sadly it closed, Adam French, the very nice and highly respected, manager said that the site, which they owned, was too valuable not to sell and in its' place now are a M&S food store and an Aldi, both large stores, this tells how big the Morrisons was!
Today is another glorious day! The sun is shiny bright and it's warm, so warm in fact that she turned the boiler off this morning!
And went on line to British Gas to put in her electric and gas readings and look at her bill for last year, the total for both gas and electricity was £535.00 which is just over £10.00 a week for the year, that's ok.
This years consumption will be much less, last winter was much colder and she certainly wasn't able to switch the boiler down, let alone off, until well into May.
And sunny days like today mean that electric lights don't have to be on as our bedroom is full of natural light as is the bathroom and nothing is ever left on stand-by! If you're not using something, switch it off!
Today is quiz day and she's taking her own lunch. She pulled out two bags of frozen chicken bones last night and put them into the stock pot with root vegetables and herbs early this morning.
They came to the boil, she dropped the heat to simmer, picked off a lot of the flesh which she put aside, made a pot of roasted buckwheat with more vegetables and several cloves of garlic, then pureed the meat with a few ladles of the stock.
At 12.45 she'll heat it up gently, put it into a thermos and take it with her to New Horizons,
The quiz starts at 2pm, she'll be home at 4.30pm, I will doze and snack for she has put a couple of dishes out for me.. almonds and red grapes plus a few of my hard, crunchy Harrisons treats.
All is well in our world.. walk on the sunny side of the street folks.. there are two meanings to this old proverb.. work them both out.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 20th, 2019.
But the day was sunny and there is always something to look at on the way, including spying a large Morrisons in the middle of Brentford.
What a joy Squires is to visit! The staff are great, as are all of their plants which are properly maintained.
The only disappointment was that there was a 20 minute wait to be served in the restaurant.. gulp.. that's what happens over half term.. note to self, never go again at half term time!
So she left with an empty tummy but not an empty Wicker Wheelie!
They had put aside two Black Elderberry plants, they were good sized plants, so she took them both.
Then, as she plans to eat more berries this year, she asked Toby, one of the outside staff, if they had strawberry plants in yet and where they were if they had.
He took her to the section and she chose two of three different varieties and found a few more varieties up near to the herb section when she was hunting for French Tarragon.
Her bill was just a fraction over £50 and as she going with Dean on Friday to pick up fence supports and other stuff from B&Q on Friday, we will be on a tight budget for the next month!
Thank goodness for things in white frosty larder and our dry stores and our green vegetables from the allotment.
Mizuna, Pak Choi, Rocket and Japanese Mustard leaves come home with her each time she goes out there and mighty tasty they are too!
On the way home she got off in the middle of Brentford and went into the BIG Morrisons store.
She has a great affection for this company, their generosity when she was fundraising for Polio with the Rotarians was staggering, so spends her money with them whenever she can but sadly, there isn't a store close to where we live.
She picked up a box of four pots of Tete a Tete narcissi and pot of hyacinths - both at a good price - to give as a gift to Myra with whom she is having supper later this week.
Nice store, large, well maintained, lots of staff, they give 5 points for every £ you spend, she has a lot of points on her card from when she shopped at their superstore that used to be in Streatham.
Sadly it closed, Adam French, the very nice and highly respected, manager said that the site, which they owned, was too valuable not to sell and in its' place now are a M&S food store and an Aldi, both large stores, this tells how big the Morrisons was!
Today is another glorious day! The sun is shiny bright and it's warm, so warm in fact that she turned the boiler off this morning!
And went on line to British Gas to put in her electric and gas readings and look at her bill for last year, the total for both gas and electricity was £535.00 which is just over £10.00 a week for the year, that's ok.
This years consumption will be much less, last winter was much colder and she certainly wasn't able to switch the boiler down, let alone off, until well into May.
And sunny days like today mean that electric lights don't have to be on as our bedroom is full of natural light as is the bathroom and nothing is ever left on stand-by! If you're not using something, switch it off!
Today is quiz day and she's taking her own lunch. She pulled out two bags of frozen chicken bones last night and put them into the stock pot with root vegetables and herbs early this morning.
They came to the boil, she dropped the heat to simmer, picked off a lot of the flesh which she put aside, made a pot of roasted buckwheat with more vegetables and several cloves of garlic, then pureed the meat with a few ladles of the stock.
At 12.45 she'll heat it up gently, put it into a thermos and take it with her to New Horizons,
The quiz starts at 2pm, she'll be home at 4.30pm, I will doze and snack for she has put a couple of dishes out for me.. almonds and red grapes plus a few of my hard, crunchy Harrisons treats.
All is well in our world.. walk on the sunny side of the street folks.. there are two meanings to this old proverb.. work them both out.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 20th, 2019.
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