Early start getting through work before a trip to the health centre for some follow up and then round to Queens Road to stock up on some goodies for the weekend.
First stop - Archer's the butchers. When I asked whether it would be okay to take a photo for my blog, we had quite a chat about Steem. "Well," he said, "I never had you down for a techno."
Past the florist's. The aroma is always gorgeous.
Next stop - Green & Pleasant wholefoods. A tiny shop packed to the gunnels, interesting sauces, seasonings, spices and pastes as well as the proverbial beans and rice. Lovely bread baked locally - picture below.
Definitely past the vinyl shop - spend way too much in there! Lovely environment, though, you can lose days without realising it.
The greengrocers - I love it that you can buy one onion in here if that's all you want. I'm planning to make some courgette relish a la @foxyspirit so I was msking sure I had all the ingredients for that (not courgettes, though)!
I also went in the cheese shop and bought some serious Red Leicester and a slice of Black Bomber. They had a cheese called True Grit but I didn't rise to the challenge .
Farmhouse Red Leicester made in Rutland. It had a lovely taste, almost like burnt toffee. The bread was from Paul's Bakery and the apples are Early Windsors grown in Suffolk.
Actually, I bought the bread for Ribollita. The recipe said 'good quality bread'. Daft, I know buying bread specially for a recipe that was intended to use up stale bread.
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