Up very early this morning to go down to Wimborne with MrL on the first stage of my non-shop shopping project; spent a lovely 2 hours wombling around the market; did the week's shopping. Lots of fresh stuff - fruit and veg (veg local, the things that aren't ready here yet), very nice leg of lamb for Sunday, local cheese and butter, free range ham, bacona nd black pudding to try, big lump of Blue Vinny, chestnut mushrooms and some lovely iwld boar and pheasant pates. Very pleased with my purchases, it seems it will be entirely possible to do this weekly. If for any reason MrL doesn't go in on a Friday, there is a Farmer's Market in Sherborne we can try instead. I spent an hour or so browsing the other stalls - lots of interesting bits and bobs. There's a lovely lady who sells vintage jewellery, and her friend on the next stall, so I invested some of the housekeeping in jewels! Will post pics next time, but their stuff is very lovely, and cheaply priced. I treated myself to Knitting Today magazine - the best one of the rash of new knitting amgazines I've found; several things in there I want to knit, including tracking down the pattern for a Peacock shawl from Socktopus, which I then found on the net, so will probably order that, along with Elizabeth Zimmerman's Baby Surprise jacket; nice men's pullover, ladybird slippers, gorgeous christening shawl - I want to knit them all :0) :0) :0) Made pizzas for tea; I now need to go and tidy up and clean the kitchen, then get ready for the Guild meeting tomorrow - looking forward to that, as I missed the last one due to illness. The talk is on tapestry weaving letters. Like to have a go soon at tapestry weaving; there are sufficient hours in a day, but I might quite like another day in the week..........
2 comments:
The Sherborne one is always busy,I dont think all the veg there is UK let alone local but there is some local produce there as I have noticed its clearly labeled as I have gone past & Crackmore Farm near Oborne have a stand there with their excellent beef,theres also a fish van but I havent stopped & looked in any detail,likewise a small cheese stand & bakery type stand so its worth checking it out :o)
I heard the other day the garden centre in Milborne Port used to grow tons of veg & sell it in a shop in Cheap Street somewhere but they closed it down :o( what a shame as that would have been tremendously local!
I know Udder Farm shop always has alot of local farms veg in but you do pay a slight premium there as you know its a very spanky shiney upmarket farm shop,nothing wrong with that but as we know(Pulham/Longburton etc) you can get just as good with a lower price tag from more modest surroundings
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hahha Its sunday31st august & I was googling crackmore farm to find out what time the maize maze opens & the google brought up your blog with my comment on there about crackmore lol!!
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Hmmm still cant find the farms website :oS
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