did you get the things we needed? (an occasional series)

We have been Out Shopping.

Scrambled egg and bacon on toast (for me) in the Better Food Company, where we bought two lots of sausages (Merguez and lamb/rosemary), herbs, redcurrant jelly, hair conditioner, and … other stuff which I now for the life of me cannot remember, and filled up two Ecover washing up bottles.

On to Gloucester Road, to deliver still more books to the Amnesty Bookshop, and purchase in various delis of crispbread, chilli chocolate, geranium chocolate, lots of chickpeas, blackcurrant juice for P, and .. other stuff that I cannot remember. Oh, and a freezer from Nailsea Electrical, as you do. And a string bag’s worth from the greengrocer – apples, pears, oranges, bananas, rhubarb (rhubarb! English Rhubarb! There’s a Pig’s Bum in my immediate future), sweet potatoes, leeks, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, coriander and mint. Forgot the red onions.

Came home with a huge sigh of relief, then realised that we had forgotten to buy the castors for the coffee table (which is heavy, and needs moving when I use the Wii). So we put everything away and set out for B and Q, where castors were purchased (and white planter), and Pete was allowed a skeg at the tool porn.

Then we swung round by Asda, and bought 8 bottles of their 12p fizzy water, various cheeses and some cold meats for next week’s lunches, a basil plant, red onions (see above), some part baked baguettes.

Thankfully I had the foresight to make a vegetable tagine this morning and bung it in the slow cooker, so dinner is easy, cos I’m knackered; just got to do some rice.

Going to finish off Gavin and Stacey tonight, which we just love.