.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

Because a) we want to grow potatoes again this year and b) it sounded quite fascinating, C and I went along to the local Potato Day today. As my dad often says, you don't know until you try.

Ignoring warnings to pre-book seed potatoes because of the rush, we were rather alarmed to arrive just after noon to find the finish time had been slashed to 2pm from 4pm and someone had chalked "HURRY, GOING FAST!" on the sign outside. Clearly, they're mad for potatoes in these parts, so we rushed inside, to be greeted by a lovely but very serious lady who talked us through basic Potato Politics and warned, "these ones are new, so we don't know what they're like," as if she was worried that they might grow teeth and attack us in the night. I resisted the urge to say "they're potatoes."

And we bought some. Woo!