Here it is. From the garden last autumn. We dug up this potato and I managed to keep the photo of it until the appropriate day. I bet any boyfriend or girlfriend would love to receive something as romantic as this!!



I made the rice and onion dish again yesterday. In the bowl where the garlic is there was a rather sad looking chilli pepper. ‘It’s going off,’ I thought to myself. ‘So I might as well use it.’ I chopped it up and added it to the frying onions and garlic. It was only then that I thought to taste it. My goodness was it hot! My lips were stinging for hours afterwards. And I put it all in the mix!! Oh well, it’s just a case of being careful when eating it. You don’t often get them that strong, the last one I used was pathetic, which is why I didn’t bother to check this one. I wonder where it came from?

One of those stretch limousines has just gone past the window. This one seemed about twenty metres long. It was cream coloured, I think, though it was a bit difficult to tell as it’s dark, certainly the windows were all blacked out, then they always are in this kind of vehicle. What goes on inside there? The streetlights are yellow so it might just have looked cream. It was based on a ‘Hummer’ I believe, you know those gigantic 4x4 vehicles that they use a lot in America, you rarely see them in England, thank god. I wonder where that was going? Oh, it’s just gone back past the window, in the other direction. It really is a huge thing. How does it get round corners?

It has rained most of the day. I never thought I’d say that I was pleased to see rain like this, but I can tell you, I’d rather have this rain and these cloudy skies than the freezing weather we had a few weeks ago.

Quiz 412
If something is ‘an old wives’ tale’, ……….
a) it’s a story about a retirement home
b) there is an element of truth in it
c) it’s a kind of traditional medicine
d) don’t believe it

Yesterday’s was c)