Thanks to our good friend Gerry Hectic who let us know about these cheap bulb packs above that are available in Lidl* now. We like the crocus called “King of the striped” but there are quite a few different packs available. We can’t remember how much they were, as we’ve chucked the receipt out, but we are sure they were around the £3 mark each which is a bit of a bargain. When it was sunnier today we filled a few pots with them and will keep our fingers crossed. Anyone else know any more garden bargains that are about now as we feel a trip to B&Q coming on before the weather gets rubbish.
*Other discount supermarket chains are available.

And as if by supermarket magic we tapped Lidl into Bandcamp and the Lidl Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art came up and it sounds very much up our street. This is what AI told us about the project:

The “Lidl Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art” is not a physical museum but an experimental audio tour and cassette release from the Dublin-based collective The Ecliptical Newsletter, inspired by the Lidl supermarket on Aungier Street. The supermarket was built on a site with significant historical layers, including an 11th-century home, a medieval church, and an 18th-century theatre. The audio tour, which features artists like Acid Granny and Robbie Kitt, blends skits, essays on capitalism, and meditations on the site’s history and the company itself.”

More about the ancient ruins in the Aungier Street Lidl at 6.36 below.