Enough, car boot sale scarf and beef stew

1. This morning I finished reading Enough: Breaking free from the world of more by John Naish. City of York Libraries have a copy. I was inspired by his mention of a blog by Clare Grant called Three Beautiful Things.

2. I went with our house guests to the Sunday car boot sale at Murton. There wasn't anything very much I really wanted to buy for which I was grateful and good because I had just finished reading the above. I did however liberate a beautiful ladies scarf for 20p which will be a fine gift wrap for the next birthday present we give.

3. This afternoon I made a shin of beef with ginger and soy stew adapted from Fearlessly Eatsitall's recipe in The Guardian magazine yesterday. It was delicious. I bought shin of beef from the excellent meat stall on the market and I served it with stir-fried matchsticks of butternut squash, courgette and carrot, egg noodles and spinach. I found the whole chilli but realised that my meal might not have been quite so beautiful if I had eaten it whole. Thanks Hugh.