The price of some foods is totally exorbitant. I got a bag of risotto rice today for £9. I know that the worldwide price of rice is on the rise, but still. And guess what I managed to spill all over the floor when I was making the world's most expensive risotto? Nick will have to reign in his Marmite addiction, with the smallest jar being £4, and I may find it hard to keep regular, with dried prunes and apricots at a fiver a bag. On the other hand, I got a fillet of sea bass large enough for two for less than £2.50. Cheap as chips - actually, cheaper, because potatoes work out around 30p each. Oh, and if I wanted to, I could get frozen frog! We could always eat cheaply on fish, rice, tofu, seaweed and eggs and live to 110.
On the route to the supermarket there is a little house with a glass case on the wall outside. It has some little dolls inside and about once a month the display changes. Last month they were all wearing face masks, presumably to reflect the cedar pollen season. Now they are wearing samurai headresses; maybe a reference to Children's Day, when boys display miniature samurai outfits.
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Good god, I'd forgotten just how pricey Japan can be. Still, we're noticing the food prices rising quite steeply here at present. You know how much I like my iceberg lettuces; they're costing £1 and more now.
As for those dolls,they're just bizarre in a way that only the Japanese can do.
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