Stopped in at the South of the River Save the Children Booksale on Thursday night. We weren’t there for long but I still managed to pick up 33 books. The picture shows 29 of them. Finds: Four of Doris Lessing‘s Children of Violence series. At 50 cents each they were a bargain. The paperbacks aren’t [...]
A colleague was selling eggs from her own chickens, and I bought a dozen. I love the look of these eggs. I love their unwashedness and the different colours of the shells. The eggs you buy at the shop are so uniform and clean. I wonder what sorts of chickens she has. Do different breeds [...]
Bought some mooncakes the other night. Talk about over-packaging! A special bag to hold the box. Multi-lingual labelling, in case you forget what you bought: in my case these are mooncakes with white lotus filling and a single salted egg yolk per cake. Each cake came in an individual box. Now for some reason I [...]