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**[hums] Hello pavement, my old friend ...**

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Thank you, piglet, for today's earworm. It's only fairly recently that I've become attuned to the way that doesn't take much for me to get a tune on the brain, sometimes for the weirdest of reasons. One day in the supermarket I read the notice on the small plastic vegetable bags which asked customers to take "one bag at a time." "One bag at a time, sweet Jesus..."

I am off to said supermarket this morning, taking the Nenlets out to lunch and then probably trying to tackle some more of the paperwork mountain. In other words, I expect to be back on the Ship sometime this afternoon.

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Originally posted by Anglo Catholic Relict:
...I am currently taking far too long to turn the junk room into a study for d, but have every hope it will happen at some point before the Lord returns. Aiming for cosy, pretty and very conducive to MA/(PhD?) studies.

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Remember that we knoweth not the hour...

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We had a rather lovely elephant at our local temple this evening - and all the local kids thought I was there to photograph them and not the rather large mammal just behind them! It then went off in procession with drummers and dancers and ladies carrying trays with lit lamps. The whole thing looked splendid.

Tomorrow is the big festival in the main village and temple so we shall be off photographing that most of the morning and evening - with a nap after lunch.

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I want to go to the zoo and see the elephants now.

I like elephants. (Who doesn't?)

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Originally posted by Boogie:
... Tatze didn't want to get up this morning ...

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Tatze is a wee dog after mine own heart.

HA, I entirely sympathise re your computer. After the big power-cut and the couple of extra days off, I couldn't get the computer programme I use to open; it kept telling me that the remote computer wasn't connected. I discovered several days later that the computer in question was actually the one right next to my own computer, which I had assumed was a spare left behind by the previous occupant of my office space, and merely needed to be switched on ...

Must go to bed now - I've got a long day tomorrow: working until 4, then grab a quick bite to eat and head down to the Cathedral for the bishopping. I'm expecting it to be a v. long service, as there's all sorts of shenanigans and then a Eucharist which'll take ages as we're expecting a full cathedral.

There may be a limit to how much sense I make tomorrow evening.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Today's pub lunch really made up for that. Log fires, a window seat, and an unexpected confit of duck cassoulet with wild rice on the specials menu proving to be utterly delicious. Came back to the office smelling of woodsmoke and feeling very calm and content. There's just something about watching the flames in the grate flicker and dance, and the logs glow and turn to ash.

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Originally posted by Boogie:
... but now I have decided to have a steamy lunchtime ...

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TMI.

I had a slow start today too, although I haven't had a completely unproductive day. I decided while lying in bed thinking about getting up that what I fancied was some Scots broth, so as I had some lamb bones in the freezer I made some stock, chopped the veggies while it was cooking and then made the soup. Though I say it what shouldn't, it was v. nice.

I also had a flash of inspiration for the Vestry pot-luck* on Thursday: it'll be just a couple of days before the end of the haggis season, and I haven't made haggis for ages, so I suggested to D. that if I did that, he could do the clapshot (which he does very nicely).

* I'm not on the Vestry (I was asked years ago if I'd serve, but as the organist's wife I don't think I should), but we get invited to the pot-luck, which is usually a fairly jolly affair.

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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
Does noone make marmalade these days ? I've been looking round without success for seville oranges and may have to go for grapefruit marmalade instead.

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Does noone make marmalade these days ? I've been looking round without success for seville oranges and may have to go for grapefruit marmalade instead.

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My Mum used to get them in big tins like
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Does noone make marmalade these days ? I've been looking round without success for seville oranges and may have to go for grapefruit marmalade instead.

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Does noone make marmalade these days ? I've been looking round without success for seville oranges.

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Does noone make marmalade these days ? I've been looking round without success for seville oranges and may have to go for grapefruit marmalade instead.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
It might be out of season. They had them in Morrisons before Christmas. You might still be able to get them in some other supermarkets, Waitrose do them but I don't know whether they have a year-round supply.

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...marmalade looks beautiful but spoils a good piece of toast

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Clapshot obviously means something else to the Scots than it does to this ex-sexual health person!
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Clapshot is a dish of potatoes and turnips (tatties and neeps), cooked separately then mashed together with butter and a generous grind of pepper, and is de rigueur with haggis.

Fairly ordinary sort of Sunday here, except we had the new Bishop preaching in the morning; he particularly wanted his first episcopal sermon to be in the Cathedral, which is just as it should be.

We think he's going to be a Good Thing.

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Originally posted by Gee D:
An ecumenical elephant then.

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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
Where I live is more Aldi territory than Waitrose. I have sometimes thought there should be a Waitrose diet as shopping there would drastically reduce the amount of food I could afford to buy. ...

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Originally posted by pydseybare:
Lots of poor people shop in Waitrose. Their reductions on shrinkage food (at the end of the day) are often much greater than those from other leading supermarkets, and their stores are more regularly accessible by walking rather than having to drive to an out-of-town park.

It is entirely possible to live on a diet spending less money in Waitrose than you would in Aldi or Lidl - providing you are prepared to shop every day just before the shop closes and prepared to eat whatever is near the sell-by date.

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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
I'm a poor person who shops at Waitrose - along with their reductions, their Essentials range costs just the same as the major supermarkets and is better quality. My local Waitrose is also my nearest butcher, meaning I can save money by buying individual pieces of meat. It's also possible for poor people to prefer more ethical supermarkets and to approve of the John Lewis Group's business practices.

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I have a freezer full of food bought from the Waitrose meat and fish counters at bargain prices. My guess is that because Waitrose have ethical relationships with their suppliers, in the event that they find themselves oversupplied, they don’t make up false excuses to reject consignments of food – unlike what at least one other supermarket has been reported as doing.

Hope you get the oranges.

Angus