Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Eastertide, free sample and sleet.

1. The deli has many strange and wonderful Easter items on display -- licorice fish; dove-shaped cakes; boxes of coloured eggs large and small and crates of chocolate sardines in silver paper.

2. Nibbling cake samples in a shop.

3. Feeling vindicated when it sleets as predicted on a previously sunny day.

Salt, appointment and looking out.

1. A man from a white van is trundling and scraping a red plastic grit spreader around the car park, which has been an ice rink these last f...