Food!!

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The snow is melting, the sun is out, and the greengrocer's stall is back in its place. I went out on the offchance, and came back with 12lb (according to my brass Hughes's Pocket Balance (British Made)) of potatoes, onions, beetroot, lemon, celery, leeks, eggs (local but not free-range, I'm afraid; the small print on the box says 'enriched cages', which are the new minimum-welfare replacement for battery cages) and oranges. I thought about buying a cabbage and when I got back realised that I had forgotten carrots, but without a bicycle or trolley-basket there's a limit to how much I can carry -- also, once the stall is back I ought to be able to top up if and when necessary. It's having no source of food supply at all that is so worrying. Of all the effects of snow, I didn't expect fresh food shortages to be one!

I am so very tired of spending month after month rationing my stocks of first this and then that (although as a means of losing weight, it appears to be distinctly effective. I'm now down nearly half a stone and my trousers are starting to fit the way they did when I originally bought them ;-p)