Guest blog for Tuesday May 7 2013
Food shopping here in Stanley is both a pleasure and a shock to the system .. choice is limited (that is sometimes a good thing) and you have to be alert to the different prices of your every day goods. Salad is a luxury – high quality meat so cheap – 300g of steak mince for 80p
Life is not all shopping fun though. As Winnie the Pooh says we went on an Expotition.
My first expedition with Ian was to Cape Pembrook lighthouse and the Atlantic Conveyor Memorial – the wreck is 90 miles off the cape. Gypsy cove was next .. penguin sighting was exactly zero that day but fortunately we returned at dusk to see one lone straggler on the beach. The local diddle-dee berry and the tea berry were in abundance under our feet – the locals do make jam with them but I will never complain about berry picking at home after seeing how painstaking it is to gather these. The jam has a tart flavour and is definitely a luxury and probably does not suit all palates.
Great food for all the local birds. Upland goose is tastiest at this time of year as they had their fill of the berries.
