Food plan awareness

I shop for groceries weekly, and try to use plenty of fresh food, so I need to know a fair part of the coming week's food plan, though I also have longer-lived fallback items in stock. At times, I notice how often it helps to remember tomorrow's plans. For example, today I am making cheeseburgers for lunch so, yesterday, I put the frozen patties in the refrigerator to thaw. Tomorrow, I plan to use saffron, so I shall soak it overnight once I've powdered it from the threads. Then, the following evening, I plan to cook beans, so tomorrow I shall set those soaking, also put some swai in the refrigerator to thaw. There appear to be all kinds of food preparation that begin many hours in advance.

A musical reminder

BBC Radio Cornwall is currently playing Alison Moyet's Weak In The Presence Of Beauty; I think she has a great voice. The song reminds me of how I was rather surprised to see the video for Is it Love?: for much of the filming I know exactly where they must be, but eight miles from where I lived for years, though the site no longer exists, yet another aspect of the world that remains in my mind but is no longer relevant. I remain troubled by the strangeness of knowing lost things well. No wonder some older people like to talk about their world as it once was, it may feel like a way to keep what mattered to them still alive. For example, on other music of the period, Morrissey's parents lived rather near where I did, as he completed his education near where I started mine; I wondered if I had happened to see them at a local shopping precinct, then remembered that at least one precinct now looks very different, its previous form lingering only in memories and photographs.