Good afternoon all - a beautiful autumnal day down here in the Vale; a tad chilly, but enough sunshine to encourage Mrs O to do a washing load which we got out on the line around mid-day, having first evicted, yet again, the Dorset Spiders from the rotary clothes line. Honestly, more spin than Tony Blair ...
Interesting that there were loads of butterflies out this morning - all were Red Admirals - and because our bungalow's built in the local "hamstone" which is creamy in colour, the butterflies were landing on the south-facing warm walls and flexing their wings to soak up the warmth.
To town first thing, though, and a visit to the Local Farmers Market where I purchased 2 4-packs of sausages from Hardings Farm, about 5 miles away, and a shrink-rapped prime minced beef from another stall, overall £8.53. Funny payment system here, you make your choice and you're given a "ticket" with the price on, which you have to go pay at another table and have your ticket stamped. You then take your "paid" ticket back to the vendor's stall, and exchange it for your goods.
Then up to the local high street butchers for 6 pork loin steaks and 4 boneless lamb steaks, for the freezer. Those cost £19.71 but that's 5 evening meals for us, and the quality is very good, better than yer supermarket. Finally, down to the said supermarket and Ossie's Traditional Trawl through the "reduced price" shelves which yielded a tub of mixed bean salad with 50p off.
Hope you're feeling better soon, Saundra .....