No! Not for clothes. No point in doing that. No point in shopping for clothes unless it is a new carhart jacket. When I get back to the farm it will be work clothes all the way – until January when I return to New Zealand for Senior Son’s wedding. So I am leaving my suitcase here. My ‘good’ clothes can sit here and wait. It will save me all the bother of dragging them back and forth across the world.
Gardening makes me hungry so I was shopping for food. Food in New Zealand is expensive. Meat is very expensive. New Zealand is not a cheap place to live. But the food is fresh, home grown and wonderful. So we just eat less of it. After another day in the wild garden (I kept my fingernails clean for all of 10 days) we went to a wonderful super-market in Wellington today. Moore Wilsons.
All is good – just as long as you stand above the Tsumani line!
Piles of vegetables and a little lamb.
I hope you are all having a great day.
Love your friend in New Zealand,
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
34 responses to “Shopping in Wellington”
Creamed honey… yum, such a great memory from my childhood. I always end up buying too much when I find a really good fresh produce store or market but because it’s special & better quality (and usually not inexpensive) nothing is wasted. Cheese in particular, I can never choose just one. Good lamb (even lamb shanks that I once fed to my dog!) in Australia is becoming expensive – between A$24 and $45 per kg. Although a Big Supermarket has been advertising lamb BBQ chops for $7 per kg but I imagine they’d be pretty ordinary. I’m happy to pay more for a product that has a better life, and find while farmers market lamb is exxy, not so much as the Big Supermarkets.
If I took a photo inside our supermarket I’d be chucked out on my ear.
I wonder if food is expensive downunder, or just really cheap in the US? I have friends who live there who tell me that they can’t believe the prices! 🙂 It does sound like you’re having a glorious time in the Windy City.. xxx
That pretty little cat…….I have it’s twin, even to the beautiful long whiskers!!
when we lived in Ukraine, we had stuff in my mother-in-law’s basement in Jamestonw, NY, stuff in Dnepropetrovsk wardrobe and stuff on a closed in balcony in Kiev; i felt like we could have had a belt or two fall off a hanger and land in the Ocean! we did that for about 3 years; smart idea to leave the good clothes there; love the pictures; happy trails
My goodness, so another wedding is on the horizon. You’ll be glad to be out of the cold and back into NZ in January I should imagine. I never thought of food as expensive here, but maybe that’s because I don’t eat meat.
When you come back to NZ seek out the “Farmers Markets” – all manner of wonderful food and very often much cheaper and fresher. I’m glad we’ve turned on some sunshine for you. I love that cat and it has such a wonderful garden to patrol.
BTW what would be a NZ equivalent of a “carhart” jacket please?
Woke up to a real smile-creating post! Luvverly food photos: like Ella I used to cook potfuls of lamb shanks for my pups . . . now I look at two not so big at some 8-9 dollars well knowing I’m likely to eat both at the one sitting and probably reach for something else 🙂 ! Actually the fore-quarters at our ‘W’ at $8/Kg were quite delicious marinated last week 🙂 ! Well, if you are leaving a trunkful of clothes behind you are not really fully departing this time around . . . sensible!!! A little amused at the tsunami line as one never really knows how far the water will travel . . . but!!!
Who is that sweet kitty? Also, get us one of everything in that store, especially the cheeses
Moore Wilson’s was my favourite place to shop when we lived in Wellington – so much delicious food! Lovely to read your recent NZ posts!
Wonderful photos of wonderful fresh produce and those cheeses—yum!!!! I can not even imagine how wonderful it must be for you to return home!!!
Okay no clothes, yes, but New Zealand makes Brent’s favorite sweater ( jumper ). Tekau. Wool. Sturdy. Perfect for the Gers cold. Work wear. Zelie used to do the laundry when she was two. She washed Brent’s sweater and unfortunately it shrank. We are all recovering from the loss. We want to get the relies to send a few over. Best sweater ever. I know, because the felted version of Brent’s sweater fits me perfectly!
OO.. I will get my ‘people’ to look for one for me..Thank you.. My sisters MIL knitted me a big jersey this time.. so i am hoping this will set me up for the winter coming.. she is a farmer too so she might know where we can get a Tekau jersey.. c
I love the shots of the market and have so many questions. What is that white ball hanging down in the middle of the first shot? Will you take John along for the wedding in January?
John does not like to travel, so I move about the world in solitary splendour. I don’t know what the white ball is either!..have a lovely day.. c
How smart you are to leave your fancy clothes there! I love shots of grocery stores and shops. Those prices! Yikes! No wonder you eat better, but less.
Tsunami line–I wonder if the water knows to stop there. That is smart of you to leave your suitcase there since you will return soon. That is quite a sum to pay for groceries.