Like a child in a sweet shop

Despite my fingers, kness and buttocks still being very stiff after doing the chairs yesterday I headed off as usual for the farmer's market with my shopping trolley today.
It's easy to tell the seasons when you go there because of the wealth of produce even though the market has no more than about eighteen stalls which include a couple selling fresh fish from the south coast, several local farmers who deal in poultry, game, home grown pork, beef and lamb, local vegetable growers and so on.
I usually walk down to the far end scanning the stalls on the way down and by the time I get to the last stall I have a good idea of what I will be buying. Everyone working there is very friendly and I try to buy something from most of them although not every week. There are several that I use weekly for my vegetables, eggs and meats and the others I use occasionally.
Today was really special because the new season's salads and vegetables were all on sale. The farm shop where I normally get my fruit and some vegetables had wonderful bright red rhubarb, huge crimson radishes and some splendid spring onions. I got some of each and some eggs then looked at the fish stall where they had some wolf fish. This is line caught and is a white fleshed fish similar to cod but has an excellent flavour that is not too strong but it goes really well with ratatouille if it is simply dusted in seasoned flour and pan fried....yum!
Opposite was a stall selling freshly picked asparagus which I love and so does Eden who is coming at the weekend. I know that this vegetable is best cooked as soon after picking as possible, so I wasn't sure whether it would be alright until Friday. The man selling it said it should be alright if instead of putting it in the fridge, I put it in water as you would with flowers, so I bought some of that too.
I also got some meat, cheese, ham, home-cooked beef and chestnut mushrooms on the way to another vegetable stall where they had some new baby carrots and lovely slender purple sprouting broccoli. By this time, my shopping trolley was almost full but I had saved room in the top for some fresh Cheddar strawberries which I will soon be enjoying after my evening meal.
All of this and I'm still sticking to the diet!