Quite a spectacle

A quiet day which began with me making red onion marmalade - lots of onion slicing. Then some onion chopping for chilli and some more for soup. Today we made sweet potato, carrot and cumin which was a great response to the positively autumnal chill in the air.
We thought we might close up early but at four we had two sets of visitors.
A German couple came for the second time in a week. She loves the carrot cake. Last week they brought a group of Germans who all had coffee. I asked her how it had gone down?
"The coffee is very good here now," she said, "when we first came to England in the sixties it was like the water after you have done the dishes. Now it is all good."

A trio of Sussex ladies arrived at the same time for tea. They're in the area for the Malvern Spring Show. I complimented one of them on her glasses, at which point she whipped them off her face to reveal the hidden secret.
I would definitely like some of these:

    
All three ladies voted. Two of them revealed they had chosen lemon drizzle. A late surge?