It’s not quite the end of August. September is still around the corner and not quite here yet. However, standing talking to a neighbour this morning, I noticed that the trees are already beginning to show Autumn colours - nature’s telling us that summer is over.
What’s more, I’ve given up on bare legs. The warm tights have been resurrected.
Reaction to Kirstie Allsopp sending her teenage son off travelling independently in Europe continues. Here’s a link to a series of letters to the Guardian on that subject.
The pub next door to us has a wood-fired pizza oven in a corner of the carpark. They opened it towards the end of the pandemic, at the point when we were told we could meet people in outdoor spaces. Occasionally we have had to remonstrate because the smoke from the oven seeps in through our windows but recently they only open it up at the weekend.
Meanwhile, in the industrial park just behind the pub a cafe that calls itself The Garage (it’s next door to a place that does repairs to posh, expensive cars) has taken over a second unit which they are now calling Garage Pizza. They are now offering take-away pizza, in competition to the pub, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Their new unit is next door to one that’s used as a gym. So now there is a big poster that declares: My head says gym but my heart says pizza. Oh boy!
We’ve not yet sampled either pizza.
But here’s a link to an article about “posh pizzas”. Who knew that such thing was possible when pizza first came on the scene. But Granddaughters Number One and Number Two assure me that there are major differences between sour dough pizzas and ordinary dough. They discuss the virtues of thin crust and thick crust and stuffed crust! A whole new view of what is basically a convenience food!
Mind you, when we went out for lunch with my sisters recently, the menu in that pub offered “posh fish and chips”. I think the fish was a bit more fancy. One of my sisters declared that it was because they served fish which still had its skin! There you go!
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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