A morning shopping with Rose

Rose has begun some exercises again as she has been getting noticeably fatter and flabbier lately. This morning she was up at 4:30, cooked for Claude's lunch then set off to walk across town to her father's place to give a birthday gift to her little niece Shyra. Later as I was going into town on my tricycle to do a little shopping, buy fish and onions and ovaltine, I met Rose walking back home. She wasn't aware of me until I drove the tricycle across her path and stopped. From a rather preoccupied look, her expression changed to a big smile when she saw me. I asked her if she would like to come into town with me and she said, Yes (with another big smile), so she sat in the tricycle while I pedalled it to Co Bu's supermarket. I took some downloaded pages on Quantum Techniques to the printer's to be bound into a book, then we went to Bahooka's to sit outside and eat an ice cream. After that, to the Fish market where I bought fish for us and fish for the dogs. The fish for us was Burao, a common and delicious fish here. I asked for a kilo at 70 pesos (about $1.25).The woman selling it put 1.5 kg into a bag and asked me for 105 pesos ($1.87), taking a liberty. I made her take out the half kg and give me the change from 100, which she did with a bad grace. But the fish was delicious when back at home Rose had smoked it over some smouldering coco shells.