Before that we had breakfast

Forgot to say that before we went to the modern art museum, I had a coffee in the Bar of Jesus - it was called something like that.

The picture's upside down. Maybe that's modern art.

Turkish shop

Have discovered the Turkish supermarket in Eltham. Am now enjoying nice new coffee, dates, syrupy pastries, olives and apricots for breakfast.

Hot milk and figs

I do really enjoy a cup of hot milk in the evening. I'm drinking one now while eating a peach off my peach tree and an apple off my apple tree and thinking how wonderful it is in this little patch of land.

Earlier today I ate fig rolls for breakfast. Apparently they were an ancient Egyptian snack and later physicians thought they were really good for the digestion and so were a good treatment for lots of illness. According to Wikipedia, a Mr Charles Roser patented a machine which inserted fig paste into a dough. They're great as they are not really a biscuit and to my mind they make a nice change from the old office biscuit.

I would like to plant a fig tree this autumn. I expect they grow quickly compared to many other fruit trees so I can probably get away with planting a small one and then urging it to hurry up and bear those yummy figgy parcels by serenading it gaily. Is this right?