Sunday, January 15, 2006

Virtue, wickedness and hot chocolate.

1. I am expecting a visitor, so I am forced to get up early to do my errands, lengthening the day by about two hours.

2. When I was at school our housemistress lectured us on the badness of eating in the street because of the damage it did to the reputation of the school. Twelve years later, there is still something deliciously naughty about buying pakora and lamb burgers from the farmers' market and eating them outside the town hall.

3. Introducing Jenny to a particularly good brand of velvety hot chocolate.

Fine day, into the daylight and picture.

1. On this fine day, I've taken some time off to walk and talk in the autumn air... and in a café and round the table and waiting at the...