Well it’s been a few days, and I have a nice packet of hobnobs sitting right here waiting for someone to come and help me with the photographs. They’re yummy!
So in the meantime, let me talk a little bit more about how I spend my day. I’m not an early riser, so I tend to wake up at around eight and the first thing on my mind is a cup of tea. I have a very pleasant chair in the bay window of my sitting room from where I can look out across the St Peter Port harbour, and that’s where I sit and enjoy my cup of tea. Our local newspaper, the Guernsey Press, usually arrives before I wake up, and that gives me a chance to catch up on local news. Truth be told this to really isn’t a great deal of news in the Guernsey press, but it is nice to see what’s going on.
Most days I walk down to the market to do my daily shopping. I don’t eat a great deal of meat, but I do enjoy chicken. And of course, since I live so close to the coast, I eat fish quite often. A lot of the vegetables we eat here on Guernsey are grown locally, many of them in glass houses. Tomatoes and peppers are amongst the biggest of our agricultural exports, along with flowers. There are a huge number of flowers grown in Guernsey, and we’ve even been known to export tulips to Holland, if you can believe that.
There are some lovely shops and bakeries in St Peter Port, and I often treat myself to a croissant and a cup of coffee. Many of my friends do the same thing, and on a quiet morning with nothing much else to do, we can spend hours sitting and chatting.
Having mentioned flowers, I realise that I’d love to write a little about the Battle of Flowers, a big fair that’s held each summer. I have soem nice photographs of parade floats from years past, but I just don’t know how to put them onto the computer. I’ll have to call my granddaughter and mention those Hobnobs again.