A bit of good grumpy-old-woman fun with Tesco

These look pretty good eh ?
We had some last night and I was inspired to send this email to Tesco today as a result.

"The half-price, Herefordshire strawberries sold at Newbury Tesco on Sept 1^st are described as “sweet and delicious”.

They are in fact, hard and completely tasteless. Certainly not sweet, (not even sour). They completely fail to comply with the description on the packet being neither sweet, delicious or even much like strawberries in flavour or texture. Though they are red. And they do have seeds and the shape appears to be about right.

I don’t mind half price strawberries being a bit overripe because though they might be a bit soft and mushy they will still taste of strawberry so I can only assume there is something basically wrong about these strawberries. Are they genetically modified? Or irradiated?

I suggest you don’t buy any more.

Yours...."

I think I will offer the left-overs to this little chap. Me and Nutmeg almost fell over him the other night.

Now these are the real thing. and they taste like it too. Well done that Barney :)

(the green ones came up shinier on the photo but the red ones are really good - sweet and delicious :)

Ooh! I've just had an email from Tesco. It says they got my email and they'll be in touch soon. Hah! I'm tempted to reply and say I'm really not interested in their response. And don't offer me any free strawberries!

Washing surprises

like lifting up the peg basket and finding a sleepy cat underneath it or emptying out the washing machine and discovering a very clean, but quite dead, earwig among the underpants.

Other surprises have included finding a pair of underpants nestling in the hedge several days after hanging it out (was this the work of a successful earwig?), having a pair of jeans suddenly throw themselves into the air and spit a peg at me in passing, having the washing line lay itself down on the ground with all the washing (this was also a surprise to the dog who usually considers the washing an incomprehensible irrelevance and was sleeping in the sun just underneath it) and receiving an entirely unwanted gift from an overhead, passing housemartin (such pretty little birds but why do they nest under the eaves just above the honeysuckle and with the washing under their flightpath?).
Well, that's washing for you.
You can see some washing just behind the tomato plants. Barney has green fingers and therefore we will have tomatoes :)
And I get to have pictures of furry plants (not to be stroked though, they're a bit prickly)
And, for Latharia, this is what I thought was elephant's ears. A sort of giant mushroom :) There is a similarity I feel :)