What to do.. a miserable day, so we went to the reclamation yard. I love it there. I just love all those made to last old things – the cast iron fires, aluminium watering cans, mangles, doors, gothic window frames, granite slabs, foot scrapers.. and so on.
Officially we are table shopping – our dining room is very narrow and our modest table too big for it. No joy today – but oh joy, we shall have to visit more secondhand furniture stores, and reclaim yards another rainy weekend – no hardship!
I do love old worn wooden tables, the patina of use and often they are good solid wood such as oak. We peered in the window a modern new furniture store.. but not only do I know like the spanking new glossy thingy.. they want at least three times the price…
Home, and rain again, so we cooked up a big vat (well stock pot) of rogan josh – from shoulder of mutton we boned out and froze earlier in the year. Nine pounds of mutton will make many meals, and required a lot of garlic onion and spices, and now it is simmering away on the rayburn, filling the house with wonderful curry aroma.. I shall be dreaming rogan josh tonight.
