Today is Farmer's Market day so I got up early (mainly down to neighbours banging car doors etc.) and decided I would go over there at 9am so that I would be back home before it got too hot.
Because all the new season's vegetables and salads are ready I took the big shopping trolley so that I could get it all in and so that I could put my handbag in there too which would make it easier to get home.
The walk across Castle Park was very pleasant with the goldfinches and blackbirds singing and feeding their young. There was a squirrel over there too digging under a sweet chestnut tree and he actually found a nut that he must have buried there some time ago!
At the market, all the stallholders are very pleasant and at one stall where I get a lot of fruit and salads I usually get half a dozen eggs too. Helen, the stallholder, leaned across with a box of eggs and opened them up and asked if I would like some 'a little bit bigger' this week. She explained that they had all been laid on different days and she had put a little sticker on each one with the day that they were laid. They were HUGE! She told me that she couldn't put them in with the normal eggs because of the difference in size and so saved them for 'special' customers. I felt really pleased. You never get that sort of treatment at Tesco.
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