Jul052009
a delicious start to the day …
Filed under Funny stuff, Life etcetera, et al, Newsie by The Soaplady at 12:42 pm on Jul 05 2009
No pictures today - just an account of the most delicious breakfast I’ve had in many months …
Two Stag bakeries spiced fruit buns, sliced in half and spread with butter, then gently heated for 10 seconds in the microwave until just warm, the butter softly melting inside, accompanied by a whole punnet of fresh, plump, perfect raspberries …
I felt like a goddess as tart yet sweet raspberry juice danced over my tongue, cutting through the richness of the spiced buns …
One would’ve expected to pay a great deal for this fare at any usual time … however, my breakfast cost me only 40p …!
Whilst shopping in the Co-op yesterday, with Mindy left to sleep off her Castle Ground exertions in the car, I was delighted to find whole shopping carts full of boxes of raspberries, all reduced to 20p, as compared with their original £3.99 … All produce of Scotland … I rather guiltily stacked up five of them …
Then, in the bread aisle, I lingered surreptitiously as the packets were being marked down, and selected two packets of the 4 spiced buns, at 40p each …
It also seems that the Co-op is fighting back against the low prices of Tesco, on the island, because there were many £1 deals on various items, and lots of things were half price … I wonder if this will pay off for them …
The main reason I shop at the Co-op is that I can never find a parking space in Tesco’s car-park, at any time of the day or week, and it’s always so claustrophobic with so many people milling about in there … Co-op shopping seems rather more leisurely and comfortable, although cerebrally I know it costs more …
There was brisk trade in the newly-opened Peacocks concession at the end of the Co-op buildings, selling clothing, and in the foyer, Isles FM seemed to be noisily and sizzlingly cooking mexican food, accompanied by large boom-boxes shouting ‘voulez-vous couchez avec moi, ce soir …?’, which hardly seemed fitting for staid old Stornoway … I hoped that I would be out and finished before that old staple ‘I’m so horny, horny, horny, horny’ made an appearance, because it’s very difficult to stand next to your fellow shoppers without blushing in embarrassment whenever that is played, and it was really loud too …
One last purchase of a bogof Sprite Zero, and I was all set for a very good weekend indeed …!
Well I’m going to garnish this lovely sunny sunday with a large caffe latte now, and probably the first menthol roll-up of the day, after which I shall be completely replete, and infinitely ready to face the day …
1 gravirlifeon 05 Jul 2009 at 6:13 pm
Wow..what a glowing ad for C0-OP and last minute reductions.
The mouth-watering descriptions are to die for (well quite nice anyway!!!) and although cannot quite agree about any parking problems, can only agree as to the musak at check-out!!!
Enjoy your chill-out (menthol-fag!!)……..FM
2 Barneyon 05 Jul 2009 at 8:06 pm
Oh, Soaplady, what a sensuous blog! (Sorry I corrected “log” to “blog”). But from the title and the earlier comments from the Aerial Feline I thought the subject would be quite different. Rasps are good, much b etter than strawberries, I don’t know why they aren’t so popular. Perhaps they are more difficult to grow or harvest. Do keep us up to date on your pleasures…..
3 thelandladyon 05 Jul 2009 at 8:28 pm
Oh yum Soaplady, wish I’d been there. I’ve been known to trip wee old ladies up to get to the reduced stuff , well no ,not quite., but i DO love a bargain.. and raspberries are mine and Lanky Boy’s favourite.
4 Harryd(Canada)on 06 Jul 2009 at 3:27 pm
You make me jealous. Whipped cream added would make it a
great dessert.
5 Flying Caton 07 Jul 2009 at 7:09 pm
Strawbs £1:50 a punnet if you buy two direct from the farm and I swear they never tasted so good in Orkney. The rasps are a bit expensive at £1:80, but we must just thole it. I’m with you on the cream HarryD, whipped or otherwise…
20p a punnet Soaplady…I hope your intestinal fortitude is up to it!
6 Barneyon 08 Jul 2009 at 7:09 am
Thole it? Translation, please.
7 Soapladyon 08 Jul 2009 at 10:59 pm
FC, I have, and always have had, intestines of steel …! It takes a lot to make me feel queasy …!
8 Flying Caton 10 Jul 2009 at 7:01 pm
Bravo! A woman with intestines of steel in the bush is worth two men with b***s of ditto in the hand! Pussibly…
Poor Barney an exile for so long has forgot his native tongue…
Thole = put up with and Hyper tells me it is not exclusively Sco”ish and may even be of Scandiwegian origin, so Cap’n, ye huvnae a leg tae staun oan!!!
9 Barneyon 10 Jul 2009 at 9:09 pm
Thaaaaank yu… I’ll bribe Angus in August and then see what you get! That’s not a threat, it’s a promise.
10 Barneyon 11 Jul 2009 at 1:30 pm
Re: thole. Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary gives its meaning as “endure” , pre 12C, from which by devious routes we get the modern “tolerate”. So “put up with” is pretty close to the mark. Fffurry Pusskins, I may be ancient but I am not pre 12C. No way.
Then of course we have “thole pins” which have to endure the pressure of oars on the puling stroke. QED.
11 Jillon 12 Jul 2009 at 3:41 pm
Your delicious breakfast made my mouth water, SL. And all the tastier for being such a bargain, I’m sure! Raspberries are my favourites, too. I can eat a whole punnet nae bother, with or without cream.
12 Flying Caton 14 Jul 2009 at 11:35 am
Is that a hint…
13 lewis365on 15 Jul 2009 at 10:11 am
Gravirlife signing off as FM?!
I thought you were rjg. . .
I once had a poor old cailleach beside me while doing the reductions one day and some idiot (who ALWAYS hovers, and isn’t very nice, and does have money as they do a massive full price trolley shop first before coming back) grabbed something she had just picked up in front of me.
One on either side the item was tugged by each hand until the cailleach saw sense before said idiot did and let go as “it was only Garlic Bread for goodness sake!”
Yup, fighting over Garlic Bread!
End of ramble! Your brekkie sounded uber good sopalady!