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| Solsbury Hill My mind goes back to Solsbury Hill so often that sometimes I think I should have my ashes nestled in the ground up there. Up the steep hill one walked, the lane came to a dead end and there was no space for parking a car. I once walked up on a Good Friday and found a local community of people carrying a cross on the hill, it seemed so weird this place which was once an Iron Age settlement. It was situated just outside Bath, near Bathampton and of course a song by Peter Gabriel always pulls me back to these hills around Bath. This particular version is a montage of the times he played it and how he grew old over time. He lived in Box a few miles away and had his studios there. As for honey. Well I have been on a search for genuine honey these last few weeks. Basically it did not have to cost a lot. This doesn't mean I am mean, I will pay a good price for decent food but Manuka Honey not... The cheese stall in Tod market had local honey but it seemed to have been sold out. So yesterday when I went to buy my favourite cheese at the moment - Cranberry Lancashire cheese (£7 for 200 grams!). They do it cheaper at Aldi but of course the real crumbly cheese is much better. And also someone has got the wording wrong at Aldi, Granberry Cheese! So I wandered down the aisle and there was the olive stall. I spied honey and the two men were seemingly a father and a lovely camp lad were very talkative and friendly. So I specified what I wanted from honey, his £12 jar was too much but they produced a smaller jar at £8. I had some this morning, it was delicious, Greek and from oak and chestnut trees. The boy added up the two items and said with a grin 'that's £10 precisely' rounding it up no less, which made me giggle inside. Bet he didn't do his timetables when growing up Tasker. |
It pays to chase the things you really want. I smiled at the 'rounding up' - I think he liked the look of you.
ReplyDeleteI refrained from a sarky comment "that's convenient isn't it", he was so young ;) I learnt about where the Manuka shrub grew from the blogger who lives in New Zealand. It is supposed to be a wonder cure but I have my doubts.
DeleteThat's a great clip of the song. Such fun!
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it Ellen.
DeletePeter Gabriel's voice is unchanged, isn't it? His Book of Love is another favorite.
ReplyDeleteYes Debby that is a lovely song.
DeleteGood honey is something I will pay for too. But I am in shock! For how many decades have I thought the song was called Salisbury Hill. Clearly I have never seen it written.
ReplyDeleteThere you are, the difference between 'a' and 'o'. When the Woods, both elder and younger starting building Georgian Bath it was built on myth and story Andrew.
ReplyDeleteI'm still smarting over the customs man at Heraklion airport making me throw away the extra large jar of honey that we had had been given. I buy my local honey from the queen bee research project where it's £5 (in an honesty jam jar) for a 1lb jar of several different sorts of Wainwright's honey.
ReplyDeleteWicked waste of honey when the bees have taken so long to produce it Ruta. That is a reasonable price back home, I pay £6 for local when I can get it. But we should pay a decent price the whole work of getting the honey and extracting it takes ages.
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