Saturday, August 04, 2018


A good day for exercise, anyway.

I walked up to Valvona & Crolla. The route took me past a classy new local restaurant – so classy it has no menu, and an unpronounceable Gaelic name like a Kate Davies pattern. So classy, as it turns out, that I couldn’t find it, although I had left home with the assurance from Google Maps that it was a 5-minute walk from here, and a firm impression of exactly where it was.

I’ll persevere.

Valvona & Crolla, at least, was where I have always found it in the past. I was in search of ingredients for Gennaro Contaldo’s “Ultimate Stuffed Amalfi Lemon”. You’ll find it on YouTube, under that title. There’s something similar in the book “Jamie’s Italian”. I got my ingredients, and found some other things including a string of Tropea onions which I had looked for in vain in Palermo. The total weight made the return journey an ordeal.

But I got here, and will soon stuff a lemon for my supper.

I got not much further with Rachel’s sock last night. I really need some compelling television. 

I like Kate Davies’ new pattern “St Catherines”. [Jean, it is no use admiring patterns when you can’t knit more than half-a-heel-flap in 24 hours.] The link is to a blog entry, and I am on the edge of my chair to discover what she means by the statement that “…my appearance has recently undergone quite a radical change.” We are promised a revelation soon, along with another version of St Catherines with more ease.

So I didn’t go to Kathy’s Knits to buy “Ziggurat” after all. Kathy’s is still there on Broughton Street, no such difficulty, I saw it as I tottered past, but I was by then really struggling under the weight of those onions. Next week.

11 comments:

  1. So glad you are back. I cannot be of any help on TV choices. My husband (some dementia there) likes Father Brown; I like Foyle's War. He controls the remote. Despite promising Foyle's War he always clicks to Father Brown. Trivial but it ticks me off. Still nice to have him about.

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  2. Anonymous7:53 PM

    Can we guess about the change in appearance?

    Mine is that she's pregnant.

    Beverly in NJ

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  3. Perhaps a wheeled shopping trolley? Here is a link to Amazon showing what I mean. I think the ones that have 3 wheels on the back for going up stairs might be useful

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  4. https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_16?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=shopping+trolley+on+wheels&sprefix=shopping+trolley%2Caps%2C1027&crid=1B1S3UZHQKFRS

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  5. I am going to guess that she has done something drastic to her hair: short cut and radical dye job (fuchsia, purple, or platinum).

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  6. You may do this already but if not, have you considered a small day pack/rucksack for carrying shopping around? SO MUCH easier than dangling shopping bags from your hands, or even a shoulder tote bag. A day pack keeps the weight close into your centre of gravity and stops you wobbling off balance. Soft padded shoulder straps make it comfortable to wear. I stopped using even so much as a handbag years ago because of all this, I have a soft 20 litre back pack instead and it's amazing how much I can carry around in it without even noticing. Hand held bags only come out for dress up events now.

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  7. skeindalous12:56 PM

    Definitely the hair...although I can't imagine her gone fuschia!

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  8. I would recommend a bundle buggy as well, think of all the yarn you could bring home in one.

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  9. Not pregnant - just cut her hair short at the grey. And she looks MAHveLOUS:)!

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    1. Google and blogger at odds again. I was commenting. I think. A trolley shopping bag on wheels would work. And it’s her hair

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