The weekend has gone by in an enjoyable blur.
Saturday’s trip into town to mooch around the shops and market in the late winter sun was all the more enjoyable this week, as we went home loaded with fruit and vegetables in paper bags from the local produce stall.
As well as being much cheaper than mass market and overseas ‘grown and flown’ items, the crops offered by the independent local trader seemed physically much larger, giving not only an ethical piece of mind, but value for money, too.
Walking away with our purchases (together with our Hessian reusable bags from Tesco) we felt that we’d done our ethically-minded and locally-sourced bit for the day, even if we had visited the supermarket first. We did only buy the non-perishable items from there, though.
It was good to be back in the garden today (or at least the greenhouse), where paper potting beans and cat grass were the jobs for the day. Pleasantly warmer than being outside, it was good to get back outdoors, after seemingly being holed up for more time than we have actually been in the darker months.
Rewarding ourselves with another coffee in town, this week we took the dominoes and played a few fast-thinking rounds. We’d never really played for points before, and although a points scoring game requires more thinking and the adding up of numbers (scoring in denominations of 5), the hands are so much more fun.
Low points meant no prizes for me, but from a feelgood and supporting the little guys perspective, I think – this weekend at least – that we’ve done quite well.