Unclean!

I was turned away from my first shop this week for being unhygenic -- although that's not really how it went. But the charity shop had an earnest volunteer (presumably) guard stationed in the doorway who instructed me that I needed to 'sanitise' before entering, an instruction which (since I had both hands very full already) caused me to look confused and back away to allow the people behind me to enter while I tried to juggle my various packages and free at least one hand. At which point I thought 'actually, I'm not going to bother going through this', the shopping impulse having been effectively quashed, and walked off.( Read more... )

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The Guardian's pork in milk recipe from my scrapbook (can it really be twenty years old?) was as successful as ever, especially when made with lumps of astonishingly-cheap misshaped bacon offcuts rather than sliced rashers -- it's an excellent and most delicious way of dealing with an embarrassment of milk that is about to go off, ( Read more... )