When you just nip out on the bike for something....

[Fab Foodie]

Sat night we had friends round for a home-cooked curry-night:
Beef bhuna gost
Goan hot and sour pork
Chana masala
Dhal
Raitha
Friday night’s trip to Sainsburys left me short of ground coriander and cumin seeds (not exactly rare items - but deliveries etc).
Sat morning decided to nip to the new farm shop a mile down the road on the 2-speed Brommie, they have a good range of spices.
Off I went at 9ish...no luck! Choice was then to turn around to the town (busy on a sat morning) or push along the road to the next farm shop which sell organic spices. The wind was at my back, sun shining, along I went....
Farm shop 2 had the coriander but no cumin seeds. Damn! What to do? Nearest supermarket was now coop in Sandwich, so I pushed-onwards.
Sucess!
That meant grinding back home along the ancient highway by the links courses into a gusty strong SW headwind! 90 mins and 16 miles later I made it home, Wimpers was about to call the Coastguard...any excuse for a bike ride.

Food was great btw :-)

 

[Cirrus]

Sat night we had friends round for a home-cooked curry-night:
Beef bhuna gost
Goan hot and sour pork
Chana masala
Dhal
Raitha
Friday night’s trip to Sainsburys left me short of ground coriander and cumin seeds (not exactly rare items - but deliveries etc).
Sat morning decided to nip to the new farm shop a mile down the road on the 2-speed Brommie, they have a good range of spices.
Off I went at 9ish...no luck! Choice was then to turn around to the town (busy on a sat morning) or push along the road to the next farm shop which sell organic spices. The wind was at my back, sun shining, along I went....
Farm shop 2 had the coriander but no cumin seeds. Damn! What to do? Nearest supermarket was now coop in Sandwich, so I pushed-onwards.
Sucess!
That meant grinding back home along the ancient highway by the links courses into a gusty strong SW headwind! 90 mins and 16 miles later I made it home, Wimpers was about to call the Coastguard...any excuse for a bike ride.

Food was great btw :-)

You sure you didn't stop in the pub and have a swift half to fortify yourself against that brutal headwind?

 

[Fab Foodie]

You sure you didn't stop in the pub and have a swift half to fortify yourself against that brutal headwind?

If only one had been open on my route at that time of the morning!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Sat night we had friends round for a home-cooked curry-night:
Beef bhuna gost
Goan hot and sour pork
Chana masala
Dhal
Raitha
Friday night’s trip to Sainsburys left me short of ground coriander and cumin seeds (not exactly rare items - but deliveries etc).
Sat morning decided to nip to the new farm shop a mile down the road on the 2-speed Brommie, they have a good range of spices.
Off I went at 9ish...no luck! Choice was then to turn around to the town (busy on a sat morning) or push along the road to the next farm shop which sell organic spices. The wind was at my back, sun shining, along I went....
Farm shop 2 had the coriander but no cumin seeds. Damn! What to do? Nearest supermarket was now coop in Sandwich, so I pushed-onwards.
Sucess!
That meant grinding back home along the ancient highway by the links courses into a gusty strong SW headwind! 90 mins and 16 miles later I made it home, Wimpers was about to call the Coastguard...any excuse for a bike ride.

Food was great btw :-)

Crikey, what was wrong with beans on toast?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Crikey, what was wrong with beans on toast?

We’re having that tonight!

 

[Andy in Germany]

We’re having that tonight!

I suppose variety is the ahem, spice, of life...

I'll get me coat.

 

[C R]

Crikey, what was wrong with beans on toast?

Where do I start, it contains baked beans for one.

 

[Cirrus]

Where do I start, it contains baked beans for one.

If he'd had the beans first he could probably have negated the headwind.

 

[roley poley]

Some of the best adventures and times can be had when you think you will be only 5 mins out and the universe nudges you on

 

[StuAff]

Sat night we had friends round for a home-cooked curry-night:
Beef bhuna gost
Goan hot and sour pork
Chana masala
Dhal
Raitha
Friday night’s trip to Sainsburys left me short of ground coriander and cumin seeds (not exactly rare items - but deliveries etc).
Sat morning decided to nip to the new farm shop a mile down the road on the 2-speed Brommie, they have a good range of spices.
Off I went at 9ish...no luck! Choice was then to turn around to the town (busy on a sat morning) or push along the road to the next farm shop which sell organic spices. The wind was at my back, sun shining, along I went....
Farm shop 2 had the coriander but no cumin seeds. Damn! What to do? Nearest supermarket was now coop in Sandwich, so I pushed-onwards.
Sucess!
That meant grinding back home along the ancient highway by the links courses into a gusty strong SW headwind! 90 mins and 16 miles later I made it home, Wimpers was about to call the Coastguard...any excuse for a bike ride.

Food was great btw :-)

Sounds like a most sensible use of time. You got everything, and some good exercise. Would have been more annoying-and a worse dinner- if you didn't have all the ingredients...

 

[Fab Foodie]

Where do I start, it contains baked beans for one.

Food of the gods! Along with Spam and McD’s McSpicy!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Sounds like a most sensible use of time. You got everything, and some good exercise. Would have been more annoying-and a worse dinner- if you didn't have all the ingredients...

I am trying to use the bike for more mundane tasks, and you’re right...if I’d taken the car I’d have got home grumpy instead of feeling good with a yarn to tell....

 

[classic33]

I am trying to use the bike for more mundane tasks, and you’re right...if I’d taken the car I’d have got home grumpy instead of feeling good with a yarn to tell....

There's a thread for that.

 

[StuAff]

I am trying to use the bike for more mundane tasks, and you’re right...if I’d taken the car I’d have got home grumpy instead of feeling good with a yarn to tell....

I managed to combine one of last year's centuries with a trip to Argos (in Bognor Regis, so that was 50 on its own).

 

[C R]

Food of the gods! Along with Spam and McD’s McSpicy!

Spam I agree, the McSpicy maybe, but baked beans are just uncouth.