There is a lot going on around town that deserves writing about, alas I can’t seem to get my thoughts together or get up the necessary energy to put fingers to the key board.
Hence the photos of my culinary endeavors [as bland as they may be] over the last little while.

I have some whole chickens to use up before the freezer order arrives [soon I hope]. This one I used half for spicy/herbed deep fried chicken, then last night this very hardy chicken, vegetable, rice and noodle soup/stewy thingy.
It was most welcome after being out in that nasty old bone chilling wind.

The Northern Ranger is again behind schedule [after catching up last week] due to winds preventing her docking in a couple of towns on the way up. She is due in 2.30 today, 26 hours behind.

The shelves in the stores are depleting at a faster rate, one could be forgiven in thinking that it being mid September the summer stocks would have arrived and on the shelves, leave alone the fact winter is fast approaching and one would be forgiven in thinking that the winter stocks would be arriving any time soon, if that makes any sense.

It was that a long long time ago that the stores had a summer order arrive late July early August, then come late fall the larger winter orders would start arriving.

Modern times sees the shelves with the same old stuff left over from last winter and very little new [in the fresh sense and different items sense of the word new] stock, excepting fresh and perishables that is.