Monday, February 29/2016

Hot enough to head for the shady side of the street. Stop at the charity shop after coffee as it's on the way home. A car is pulled up next to it, across a walkway, and a man is changing a wheel. Not unusual to see people doing even major repairs more or less on the street for lack of better space. I take a quick shot, which proves later to look rather as if the car had crashed into the shop. Reluctant to take more photos with the man underneath the vehicle a possibly reluctant subject.  

Stop at Carrefour for yoghurt. Much nicer in containers from the big tub at the deli counter. Then to Prinos for onions, pears, mushrooms, and carrots. Carrots 49 euro cents a kilo today (40p, 74 cents CAD). Which still leaves me paying slightly more than Wednesday, when I only realised, embarrassingly, after we had left the store that I'd paid for everything - cauliflower, leeks, etc - except the carrots, which were still hanging in a clear plastic bag over my wrist undeclared. 

Lovely strawberries with balsamic vinegar and yoghurt. Reading Events, Dear Boy. Now into the seventies, forty years ago. So many of the same issues as today, including the referendum on leaving the Common Market, rail fares, and the state of annd funding for National Health.