Friday, December 17/2010

Wake to sun but then it looks as if fog has rolled in, obscuring the sea and making the buildings hazy. Soon realise it's not fog but dust, presumably from the Sahara, its usual source. Continues all day, though the temperature remains warm. Still shirt sleeve.

J makes a beautiful spaghetti carbonara for dinner with the streaky bacon from Metro. Why is bacon here well over half lean, whereas in Canada they might almost as well sell it as lard? Is this a question of cuts of meat or the nature of the pig? Also, it doesn't have that horrid stick-your-finger-through-it texture that must come from injecting Canadian bacon, like Canadian chickens, with salt water.