On Miss N's reasonably short list today, she'd written Green Onions (for which she meant Spring Onions)...and so I found myself humming "that tune" on the way to Aldi. Booker T you have a lot to answer for...

A surprisingly cool morning, albeit Mrs S wasn't convinced when I mentioned this to her at 9, and we were soon down to the list making formalities - lots of "get them if they're on offer" and "only British (or maybe Spanish), but preferably British" when it came to particular items of fruit or veg.

Fortunately there wasn't anything particularly obscure, and as I'd mentioned I'd go to the Waitrose at the Brunswick Centre for a change of scene, I agreed to keep a look out for the elusive pumpernickel (it remains elusive). Otherwise all items largely present and correct, and Mrs S delighted for another week.

Two GoodGym volunteers collected surplus food from Gail’s on Buckingham Palace Road and delivered it to Under One Sky at Victoria Station. Instead of going to waste, the food was shared with people experiencing homelessness, turning surplus into support. A simple task with a big impact, proving that food is too good to waste and kindness is always worth sharing.

Both Mr R and I were stealing ourselves for the upcoming heatwave later this week - Mr R struggles in the heat, so is not looking forward to it...fortunately there was a breeze to accompany my wander to Tesco this afternoon, and his list was straightforward including a request for Ritz crackers which were easily found. The shelves were a little bare though, and on my return we discussed whether this was the taste of things to come (excuse the pun...) due to the various global issues headlining the news at the moment, and which products might prove harder to track down over the coming months...

A double helping of goat's milk related products on today's list for Miss N - both she and I had no idea you could even get semi-skimmed goat's milk, but you can in Tesco. The specific soft goat's cheese in Aldi required a bit more hunting around on the shelves, but eventually was found slightly hidden behind a myriad of other cheeses - the world's moved on a lot from when variations on cheddar were seen as luxury items...

Along with the usual regulars on today's list for Mrs S, she threw in a couple of curveballs - the first was pumpernickel (for which I was confident that if anywhere was going to have it in stock, Waitrose would be top of my list), and the other was paper napkins (or was that serviettes...), which prompted a discussion between Mrs S and I as to whether there was a difference between the two...

Sadly pumpernickel was nowhere to be found in the aisles of the world's politest supermarket, and neither were serviettes - fortunately my route home took me past IKEA who I knew wouldn't let me down on the serviette/napkin front - the search for the rye bread continues for another week.