22 Foxhole East

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congratulations on winning the FA Cup, imagine L will be very noisy and celebratory tonight.   

f0xh0les

T'was silent round by me, except for the bird nesting in the hedge next door again (do they not learn??) sitting on our  bedroom window sill giving the DANGER!! PREDATOR!!! call at 4 flippin' 15.  

I did say to DH if it kept on much longer I was going to go outside and eat it myself.

It started again at about 5.30 but not for as long ( fear not, I did not eat it).

f0xh0les

DH assures me the students across the road had a street party from 2-3am when they got home from wherever they had been, and there were cars honking up and down the road.  I was reading until 1am, so slept through it all, but am conditioned to respond to the bird's HELP!!! cry and so woke up for that.

I have an exceptionally grumpy dh today

apple_muncher

That must have been a good book!

f0xh0les

Nope, but it was finished, so it can go in the charity bag for disposal on Monday.  

In exciting news, an International Food shop has opened up this week, just a 3 minute walk away - so I sent DH up there to see if it was any good, and he has come back with Lavash bread the size of a coffee table, wraps, pittas, pickles and  tins of foul madames, and tales of very exciting fruit and vegetables.  I see ladies fingers in his future (bleugh!). Still, it will keep him off street corners,  and away from the larger one in town.   He was asked his ethnic background by the owner at the till!

So we now have a new artisan bakery, a  new  hummus supplier, and a new hipster vegan burger place all since lockdown, the area  seems to be going up in the world.  The 'wrong side of the street'  for shops is merging into the  'highly desirable area'.    All to the good.

kerri_gt

New shops sound fabulous. We've seen largely the opposite of closures and more closures incl our fav restaurant (discovered during Eat Out to Help Out). We do have a local zero waste store that's moved into perm premises, a new independent bakers and an independent deli / supply shop that have opened so it's not all bad.

Baileys_Babe

I'm with you on okra, disgusting. I am hoping one day I will try a dish with it in and it will be ok, surely somebody has managed to do something with it that is palatable.

Sounds like a great and useful range of shops opening in your vicinity 🙂

f0xh0les

I think the only way to make an okra dish edible is to leave it out.   The weather forecast for today was rain or heavy rain showers, all day.  It is currently 11 degrees, bright sunshine, and laundry load number 2 is happily drying on the line. The kitchen has been cleaned, the recycling sorted and the bins put out.  On the sofa with a cup of tea and the football.  Cake baking and laundry folding will commence when I can get to the kitchen table - dh is busy printing something or other on to some material and **shudder** i-r-o-n-i-n-g  it to set it.  I am keeping well out of the way. 

DS1 has just gone out to meet 'a friend' in town.  He was planning on it involving doughnuts.  The boy is a walking stomach.

kerri_gt

Just had to fetch the washing in here, someone must have heard me say 'I'm just going to hoover the car out ' as the heavens have opened. 

Baileys_Babe

f0xh0les said:

I think the only way to make an okra dish edible is to leave it out.   

🤣🤣🤣 That is so true.
Half and hour ago we had beautiful sunshine and rain, the rain has now stopped and the sky is grey cloud, very strange.