A Wet Weekend

Ugh what a wet cold weekend! I've had to pull out a winter skirt and cardie and the central heating gone back on!

Yesterday we drove over to Spalding. On the way we stopped at a road side strawberry seller and bought two punnets of lovely ripe juicy strawberries. It made me realise that the farm along the road from us must be open for business by now. Great fresh local organic fruit and veg and on Saturdays they sell meat from a local farm. A sort of mini farmers market.

Any way, on to Spalding, after picking up our order of the best sausages in England and stashing them in the freezer box we went for a browse and some refreshments at our favourite shop in Spalding, Bookmark. This independent bookshop is still surviving in these 'credit crunch' lean times and long may it do so. There's a new book out 'Spalding in the Sixties' that we'll have to get the next time we go. The last time we were in the shop we bought 'Spalding in the Fifties' a very young David was in one of the photos in the book.

After a wandering around the town we couldn't help perusing the estate agents windows looking at bungalows. There's many more in the Spalding area so it wouldn't surprise me if we don't end up back in our home town sometime in the future.

There was a small Farmers Market on the Sheep Market along with the regular Saturday market lining the streets but nothing grabbed out attention so we headed of for the cemetery to tidy Grace and Ted's Memorial stone and leave our usual arrangement of spring garden flowers.

On our way home we stopped to visit D's Aunt and Uncle. The visit was long overdue. They have a well tended and productive vegetable garden and we came away with freshly dug potatoes some lettuces and spring onions. Today for our Sunday lunch the young new potatoes boiled with fresh mint from the garden went well with the tender roasted leg of lamb bought from the butchers on Saturday.