My brief is to make food with supermarket ingredients. Today I made soup with canned chicken, sweet corn, and mushrooms.

This serving works out to be 95p including fuel, for 40 serves.

Spring onions (on special) added some color.

Added a cornflour slurry to thicken. Potato would do the same job.

White onions and garlic to frame the flavors.

Makes a change from all veggies and was received well.

Fractal flavor

Today I made a wholemeal bread that for once didn't go mad and produced an acceptable loaf. I used 40% English wholemeal flour and 60% Canadian strong white flour.

Verbena wrapped around some agapanthus seed pods.

Here is a kind of grail - a working phone box. It's hideous, but there's a dial tone and it doesn't smell like the inside of a trawlerman's waders.

While most people seem to have a smartphone these days, others either can't afford one or choose not to have one. For them, the public callbox is essential.

This is a KX model phonebox which first appeared in 1985. For trademark reasons, the next model will likely be called the KZ.

Read more, here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KX_telephone_boxes

I love Spanish blood oranges but they leave their mark. I treasure it.

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One of the best things about part time work is the lack of pressure.

Given a cans of cooked garden peas - i didn't know that was a thing - and asked to make lunch, what to do? Blitz the peas with some chili flakes and oil and dust with cayenne pepper. Serve with tortilla chips. Just right for a light and nutritious lunch.

He's out there, enjoying the view.

it's a stratus nebulosus kinda morning.

time to get ready for work.

Walking to work yesterday I spotted these lupin seed pods in the sun. Progress and joy.

Found during excavation for the canal. The Roman road was on a similar alignment.

For 40. 2 trays enough for 40 and a few second helpings. £24

Recipe from Cook for an Army, online.

3 o'clock pause

This is the entrance to the former Shrigley & Hunt stained glass works. Now the building is used as student accommodation.

I think the monogram has been executed with great style.

English farmhouse cheddar made from goat milk.

I bought this on special last week. It is absolutely astonishing!

Firm yet creamy. A subtle tang. Some sweetness.

That's lunch sorted.

Enjoy with some fruit and a plain digestive biscuit.

A classic and historic recording. Almost enough to make me return to vinyl.

A drink of two halves

I looked up to see the lovely clear sky, and noticed this mast, bedecked with folded and directional dipoles, microwave dish, etc and wondered why I had zero phone signal.

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Lunch at the market consisted of a sausage barm (local name for a bread roll) and cup of tea.

Locally produced sausages. Delicious simplicity.

Another of the window dinosaurs

The morning sun fills the kitchen and dries the dishes. Sometimes I wish I had a dishwasher. But then I'd miss out on sights like this.

A shop is being refurbished.

I love this old glass; it has very slight flows and ripples that are absent from modern float glass.

I liked the way the windows were reflected in the wet and clean tiles.

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Today the world celebrates World Typing Day, where we reflect on the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of typed communication.

This is my double-shot pudding keyboard in QWERTY layout, as invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1874 for his new-fangled Type-Writer. I have tried other layouts, including Dvorak, but always come back to this - it's hard to overcome muscle memory.

You might use QWERTZ, AZERTY, ŪGJRMV, ЙЦУКЕН, or another kind for your own language. But they all kicked off from QWERTY's original design and purpose (increase speed and acccuracy, and reduce the chance for typewriter mechanism to become jammed).

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This is a pretty old window and the glass is most likely the original 18th century glass that was mouth-blown into a long cylinder, which was then flattened and cut into smaller pieces for subdivision into window panes. Hence, these interesting distortions.

I have acquired a new bread machine and this is the first product.

I was feeling a bit out of shape this morning (yes, 'round' is a shape, but I'm not talking about that). But my shirt cheered me up no end with its cheerful label =]