Tomatoes

Monday was a baking day, batch No.745, with what I might say was a successful outcome, with two good loaves appearing by mid afternoon. This mean a late afternoon circuit, which ended up with this non-scoring trolley from B&M, a long way from home. Not captured as I had my own trolley. Capture which would have meant, in this case, wheeling the thing home and taking it back in the morning.

At some point, I had been reminded that, because of my forays into the M&S food hall, we were running something of a surplus on tomatoes and that I had better do something about it. So what better than to attempt a version of the tomato salad we had taken a few days previously at Cappadocia? As noticed at reference 1. To which end I had picked up some fresh parsley from Waitrose and, fine fresh bread notwithstanding, knocked up the salad snapped above. Tomatoes, parsley and a little rape seed oil. I thought about cucumber and decided against; no substitute for the crunchy pomegranate used by Cappadocia. Not bad at all. The bread was pretty good afterwards too.

The only catch was that this (Friday) morning, checking at reference 1, I find that the salad that I remember from Cappadocia does not look to involve tomatoes at all. Parsley yes, pomegranate yes - but there are no tomatoes to be seen. More a green salad than a red salad.

Memory playing tricks again. Quite short term tricks on this occasion.

The next day, I passed up on another non-scoring trolley, this one from Sainsbury's, just off East Street, when I was heading for the Screwfix underpass.

And then, nearer home, I came across what appeared to be the demolition of what had been a rather odd looking house, not very old, tucked behind the electricity sub-station (if that is the right term) at the bottom of Christchurch Mound, by the stream.

BH tells me that it had once been the home of an old lady who had an even older cat, a cat who got rather senile by the end, up to all manner of stupid stuff. But that was quite a long time ago and we may have moved forward an owner or two. We await developments with interest.

No clear what goes on in the back garden in the snap above. The house being demolished more or less centre, the sub-station below it. Stream running bottom left to top right immediately above it. Tin-lid next door long gone. Presumably this house was a bit of in-fill after most of the estate had already been built.

There does appear to be the shadow of a small chimney in the snap above and a chimney pot in the one above that, so not that recently, as I guess most new houses had stopped having chimneys by the 1970s.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/03/trollfest.html.