And yesterday

All our grass had it's first cut.

In the winter I bought a bench grinder at Aldi for about a tenner. It made a nice change to just offer up the mower blade to a grinding wheel instead of filing it by hand. Nice not to have the invariably chipped knuckles that accompanies the blade-filing exercise too.

We drove to Banbury in the beetle with the top down, only to have to put it up at some traffic lights when the rain started. 12'C isn't *really* warm enough.

We rounded the day off with a curry. There's a Bangaldeshi restaurant in Deddington that does all kinds of dishes we never heard of anywhere else. Last night we had Chicken Silsila (sweet and mild) and Lamb Achaar (semi-dry, sharp, hints of citrus and astringency) with rice, nan bread and onion bahjis. The time before we had a Sathkora (very strong citrus flavours) with butter chicken. Each time we seem to have chose something bitter and something creamy and sweet: fortunate, since alone any of these would have been a bit much. Together there's a good balance. Bit like a good marriage really: balanced.

Time I was outside in the sunshine.