Sunny and warm, although those in tank tops do seem to be on the optimistic side, unless they're jogging. Bus along Bayswater Road and over Westminster Bridge to the Southbank. Almost impossibly crowded near the London Eye, but thins out a bit after we pass it. Families with children, people on holiday, tourists, buskers, people eating ice cream and drinking at riverside pubs and cafés. Kiddies swarming over the climbing structure. It's shirtsleeve weather in the sun. We pick up the brochure at the National Theatre and then cross back over the Millennium Foot Bridge and take the tube back from Blackfriars.
Hit Marks and Spencer just after the afternoon price mark down and decide to try the salads for supper:
Layered prawn and pasta salad
Borlotti. Flageolet and black bean salad with mint vinaigrette
Potato salad with sugar snap peas, edamame soybeans and wasabi mayonnaise
Edamame soybean salad with sesame seeds and lime and chilli
All of them prove to be delicious, with a fair bit of heat in the last two. Speculate on the odds of a Canadian supermarket selling same in the coolers without marketing them as gourmet specialties.
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