OUT AND ABOUT IN OXFORD, The Covered Market

Over the last few days we have been out and about in Oxford experiencing the city and all it has to offer. We have been to the Covered Market a couple of times; it’s off The High, as the locals affectionately call High Street. The market stalls are varied everything from food stalls, including fruiterers and butchers to cake and pie shops, there are toy stalls and you can buy shoes ,hats, scarves, bags, toys, tobacco and giftware. All top quality.

Organic Butcher! The sawdust on the floor is to
catch the blood, very fresh meat!!!!!

The butchers are interesting, they mostly have their wares displayed outside the shop, hanging from the awnings and displayed on tables. You can buy a brace of pheasant, either plucked or with feathers on, a big fat goose dressed, but with the head on and in a plastic bag! Half a pig hangs alongside a freshly killed boar with the fur still on both hanging from the shops awning in front of the window.

Pies are very English, pork pies, ploughman’s pie huntsman’s pie and all types of game pies and Cornish pasties. We shared pork pie for tea one night with vegies and a huntsman’s pie tonight with vegies. Both very tasty.

Had to add this, fresh holly on sale at one of the flower stalls.

We bought a brolly at the market when it was raining lightly, funny there’s a lot of brollies around and lots of them have fought with the elements and lost, brutalised by the wind and nursing bent or broken spokes. I also shouted myself a lightweight wool scarf as the one I brought over is not adequate, either length wise or warmth wise.