I still haven't found all spice berries for the pickled sweet chestnut recipe. I was going to make the pickle without them.
There are sweet chestnuts on the green by the church at Wanstead. There were a lot there last year when I hadn't anything to do with them. This year there were a lot of the shells on the ground but only flat chestnuts falling out of them.
I usually go to Wanstead by tube, which is outside my season ticket zones. Once Ros Bedlow led me back from the church into New Wanstead and then to the Leytonstone High Road. I can get to New Wanstead - it is where the vet hospital is. A look at the A-Z and the route from there seemed simple so I tried it and it worked (what looks simple on the A-Z is not necessarily so when one is walking!).
There was a vintage and craft fair at the church hall. Nearly an hour to go but some stall-holders were already packing up. I found a lovely unmarked silver moth broach for £12. I had also got a knitted tunic and a cereal bowl at the charity shop on my way to the supermarket this morning.
It was beginning to rain so I took the tube back and then a mile walk from Leytonstone.
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