Fish and Chips and Farewell London (For now😊😉).

Greetings from points unknown, or as my Lord and Master referred to it this morning : "Jet Lag Central"😞.  Poor baby, a long weekend and back to work today, so I am back on posting duty. It is simply not worth trying to travel with a laptop, and the slow cooker won by unanimous vote, so I hope that you will forgive me for this belated post via android. Oh, how I wish I had an actual Android to type for me! Perhaps C-3PO. He is so charming when he is not scolding R2D2.

I had consulted the weather before arriving in London, and had found that my plans to go to Hyde Park for a picnic and to feed the ducks and geese while My Mr.Cham was otherwise engaged would simply not be practical, so I decided to visit the historical, thousand year old Borough Market

where I found this lovely jersey cow apron, and looked at these bowls, but decided not to buy any because my luggage is already too heavy.

 I purchased some very big chocolate chip cookies,

as well as a
special treat for my sweetheart's dessert.

and on my way out, I picked up a couple of orders of fish and chips for our dinner

at the appropriately named FISH!

I returned to the hotel a bit footsore (actually, I splurged a taxi there and back because I was afraid of getting lost😕). It is very large, but it was a very nice market and I would recommend it. Unfortunately, I was not able to see all of it. Perhaps, when we come back through London on our way home next month.

On Sunday, I had contemplated visiting the Natural History Museum, after enjoying a David Attenborough program about it, but the sheer size of it was too daunting and I have to confess that looking at taxidermied animals in glass cases is, dare I say it, too depressing. It reminds me of the 1972 movie Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth)

  starring Geraldine Chaplin and Oliver Reed. Set in a bleak future, a couple find that the wife is expecting, but their happiness turns to fear because having children has been outlawed for thirty years. One day, they visit the local "zoo" which is in truth, a place filled with taxidermied animals in glass cases because animals are extinct. I do not want to live in that world. Would you?

Consider that a purely rhetorical question.

I decided instead to go to Sainsbury's because

I needed to pick up some supplies to replenish my traveling pantry which to my dismay has dwindled quickly. I had no idea that such "basic" items such as ramen noodles, miso paste, semi sweet chocolate morsels, sushi rice, kombucha tea, sunny delight, etc.

would not be available when we returned to our present 'home away from home'. We are truly blessed (and spoiled) to live in a multicultural America with so many different countries' food products available in our local supermarket and online. I assumed that would be the case everywhere, but it is not. I have been enlightened.

Tess🌷