My virtue. Let me show you it.

[desperance]

So I did - well, exactly as I foretold thee. I listened to some radio; I read some book. I went shopping (via m'friend Andrew's house, as I had a package to deliver on behalf of m'friend Gail; I like playing postman. Come to that, I know that none of you do, but I quite like The Postman). And I was sooooo good; I spent only what was in my purse. Which was no notes at all, just a handful of coinage. So I came home with secondhand books (surprise!), which is meat for the mind; and also with meat for the belly. Went into my favourite butcher and asked for a sheep's neck, and came out with two for three quid. I have potatoes, I have carrots; I foresee a mutton hotpot in my future. [*thinks* - come to that, I have celeriac also. Slices of celeriac, alternated with the potato? Or possibly interwoven...?]