Monday, July 21, 2025

Shop move, identical and caves.

1. Our international food shop has moved into a new, larger building. I am very relieved that it smells exactly the same -- a mix of basmati rice from the huge sacks by the door, and every kind of spice.

2. She is rather cross because the white sandals she'd found in the children's department were not a good fit. Happily for us, the women's department has an identical design in a larger size.

3. 'What is this?' she wants to know about the podcast I'm listening to. Within a few minutes we are doing a feasibility study into a visit to Royston Cave.

Haircut, revision and changing sky.

1. At this salon, with the sinks set up so I'm looking at a view of the woods while the hairdresser shampoos and rinses, I suddenly unde...