May 22nd, 2025

Author: donich_admin

Strawberries

I was in Glasgow yesterday doing what is hopefully the final stint on clearing out J’s flat.  It is hard to believe that a two bedroom flat could contain so much stuff, though I suppose that as one way or another our family have owned it for over thirty years it should be no great surprise.

Anyway we went to the local Lidl to get our lunch (or I did because J is insisting on living on a diet of “things that must go before I move”.  I hope he doesn’t get either food poisoning or beriberi).  It is a real treat to go into a real shop and look at real food before you buy it, and Lidl has a great in store bakery and green grocery department.  I bought some strawberries, and apart from the fact that they are in a plastic box they are everything a perfect strawberry should be.  Ripe, sweet and delicious.

It just goes to show the benefits of eating seasonal and local – these came from Fife and tasted a million percent better than imported and air freighted ones from Morocco in January.  Some things are best when they are a treat at the right time of year from them.