Kimi
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Apr 19, 11:40pm
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The rain's been pouring down overnight and this morning, so any outdoor activity has been confined to darting out and in again. A nice day for baking: Mr Kimi's made feijoa muffins, and I currently have profiteroles in the oven. Dinner will be moussaka, made with some of the tail end of this year's aubergines from the garden. We've been scooping and freezing feijoas, as well as using them in any vaguely relevant meals. Some neighbours whose trees aren't bearing yet, or who (shock! horror!) don't actually have any trees are eager recipients of the excess. We're also harvesting a few tamarillos - not enough to make preserves, but sufficient to put on (home made) cereal. And rows of golden persimmons are ripening on the windowsill - these we only ever eat fresh. We've begun the process of putting part of the vege garden to bed for the winter, clearing the beds and putting on compost before sowing a winter crop of broad beans. I had an amusing little interaction at a local cafe this week, that made me feel my age (in a good way). The till had broken down, so the lovely young lass serving was working out the sums using a calculator. All fine, except that I had a discount card. Trying to work out the discount flummoxed her. She asked another staffer, who looked anxious and said, "I can't do percentages". Since I actually wanted my discount, I asked the total amount, worked out the discount (10%! Super-easy if you know how), and all was well. As I told them when they looked impressed, "I'm older than calculators" - not strictly true, but certainly older than cheap, readily available ones. Wishing everyone a pleasant weekend.
The Passing of Mistress Rose My historical novels Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? - A Room With a View
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