Collect J's new glasses. He's not completely happy with the left varifocal lens but thinks he'll adjust to it. Gorgeous day, so coffee in the sun at Harry's by St Lazarus Church. Actually, more than coffee. Also the local ice cream. J opts for cheesecake flavour and I have mastic. When we first saw mastic gum listed as a flavour it sounded like an unpleasant dental diagnosis, and I was reluctant to risk disappointment on one of my two or three ice cream cones per year. But curiosity wins, and in fact it is a pleasure, resinous but sweet and almost minty. It's derived from the gum of Mediterranean pistachio trees and has been used for more than two thousand years as chewing gum and also is said to have medical properties, particularly anti- bacterial. Disputed claims re the helicobacter bacteria associated with ulcers.
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