Impulse brick buying

Up fairly early, Lorraine and Beth rounded up the cats and poked them into their basket, but somehow they burst free again and were hard to recapture. Then we dropped Betty off at the station. Regrettable unauthorised No.1 and No.2s in the back of the car. Cats bedraggled and ghastly when the arrived at Top Cats, but were cleaned up and given their shots.

Weasels inoculated off out in the car to Newhaven, where we went to an architectural reclamation yard, and bought ourselves three big sandstone slabs, which were heavy sods to carry through the house and into the garden, and half a dozen smaller ones. The yard's labourers had not turned up, so I hefted them into the car with the woman who ran the place. Also we impulse bought half a dozen half-moon bricks, I can say this is the first time in my life I have impulse bought bricks. After this hefting, what could be nicer than a bowl of steaming carrot and coriander soup?

Watched some TV documentaries about Back in time for dinner which showed a family eating their way through the fifties, sixties and seventies. Brought back some memories, and the family in the show were really engaging and likeable - especially the mother, chained as she was to the kitchen. I think Mum's food was really healthy compared to what some of them were scarfing.

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