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

We sallied off to Nailsea yesterday morning - it's a nice little town that has most of what you might need for day to day stuff. I wanted to get some more catnip for the Tribe - they love it, but they want it in a herbal form. Sadly Aaron's Pets didn't have any, so the search continues (we are almost out of it). I also nipped (or popped) into the opticians to have my glasses adjusted *again*.

The rest of the haul included:

• a new cutlery drainer to replace the ancient and horrible dark green plastic thing
• a shoe cleaning kit wooden box, reduced to £6.50 in Woolies - been after something like this for *ages*
• a small non-stick saucepan; I don't like non-stick, but for scrambled eggs and white sauce they're handy
• cress, red chillis, eggs, beansprouts, new potatoes, cabbage from the greengrocer
• 2 plastic bottles from the pound shop, to put my vinegar and lemon juice in (switching to a green cleaning regime, bit by bit)

Then we hurled round to Taste at Barrow Gurney, to pick up some rhubarb, and a couple of their most excellent pasties for lunch. Disaster! - all gone pasties :( So instead,

• 2 crayfish tartlets - gorgeous, consumed with homemade lentil/tomato soup for lunch
• some Parmeggiano Reggiano
• a small sourdough loaf
• apple smoked bacon
• a stalk of teeny tiny vine tomatoes
• organic milk

And that was that. Home for lunch, then the rest of the day was mostly slumpage for me after the disturbed sleep on Friday.

Supper was sublime - we did the Boy Oliver's Hot and Sour Pork with Rhubarbe, and I recommend it most highly. Really, really lovely. And there's enough left over to put a tub in he freezer.

Watched the first episode of Dirty Sexy Money, which was just bad enough to be good, if you know what I mean. And I Tivo'd The Day After Tomorrow, of which I had had such high hopes that I actually *paid* to go see it, and it was appalling. I might watch it this afternoon to see if it's as bad as I remember.

Happy Easter, all!

ah hah - no more cold turkey

A quick look on eBay has brought forth 200g of catnip for the princely sum of £9, including postage.

Described as a *huge* bag - I doubt it'll take our lot too long to get through it ...