Still wagoning

And that's three weeks on the wagon.  And yes, I know - it isn't Lent.

But haven't you been reading the papers and listening to the news?  There's an economy drive on.  The government is busy closing everything down and sending the deserving poor to the workhouses and the undeserving poor out to sea on leaky rafts.  We're all supposed to be Doing Our Bit, Making Do and Mending, Pulling Together and coffing up all our money to the exchequer.  (Actually we, of course, are putting our money towards going to Japan in the summer - but don't tell either the Prime Minister or the Chancellor of the Exchequer or they might want that too).

So we are reduced to Core Business only.  Although this isn't quite as arduous as wartime austerity was.  If you buy a whole sheep or half a pig for the freezer you get a lot of meat for your money, not to mention all the cuts that you don't see in the butcher's.  So I made sausage meat with the trims from the lamb ribs yesterday and we now have a whole pot of fragrant sausage and vegetable casserole to keep us going over the next couple of days. Alas, we are now out of vegetable stores from last season's harvest but it won't be all that long before this year's harvest is starting again. And seasonal vegetables are not all that expensive to buy. And I've been making bread and cakes and puddings myself which are also not particularly expensive to do at home - and it's not as though we are at all short of eggs for baking, or eating, or anything else!!!!!!!

But we won't make four weeks uninterrupted wagoning.  We're off to The Swan on Saturday and have no intention of being austere there!

Happy Australia everybody, btw.  Hope it's nice and dry and temperate wherever you may happen to be