Sunday, December 2/2012

Perfect lazy Sunday morning, if requiring a bit of adaptation in the cooking department. One small frying pan, so bacon cooked first, then eggs. Which raises our perennial but as yet unanswered question: why does the streaky bacon here and in the UK, lovely, lean and flavourful, have no equivalent in Canada (admittedly the home of great back bacon). In Canada the bacon has much more fat and is infused with so much water that you can stick your finger through a slice anywhere it limply presents itself. Do we produce different pigs or just do terrible things to them? Or both? And (back to the breakfast) freshly picked oranges (Clementines, but the regular oranges here are even nicer. And the Cypriot version of a real Sunday paper - does run to three sections if you count the telly guide - with a couple of ok puzzles. We take it all (the paper not the breakfast) out to the loungers around the pool. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain.