Coffee cum wifi at Pret A Manger. Notice as we pass that our Starbucks is open again, so we’ll have to check it out tomorrow. Feel at Pret like I’m guardian of the loo. There are three unisex cubicles and a disabled unisex cubicle behind a door opened with a code printed on the receipts. Twice women ask me if I have the code and I give it to them. The second woman apologises. She isn’t a customer but her small daughter badly needs to use the toilet. Then another woman deposits her coffee on the table next to us, asking that we keep an eye on it while she’s in the loo. May sit somewhere with less responsibility next time.
To Angel tube station. Quick look in the supermarkets and at the stalls in Chapel Market. Then Indian Veg, for the first time this year. Almost vegan - think with one exception this time. Always similar set up, with minor changes. The ingredients aren’t expensive and it’s not haute cuisine, but iy is all you can eat for £7.90 and no charge for bringing your own wine or beer. And we have small plastic airline wine bottles filled with the remainder of our last Portuguese bottle. Best is that they give free boxes of food to the homeless. And then there’s the vegetarian propaganda on the walls. Some of it I quite agree with, such as the environmental unsustainability of producing meat for a rapidly increasing world population. Some of the health proclamations seem considerably less sound. Such as warm water resolving both high and low blood pressure as well as all diseases related to the eyes ears and throat. That’s warm water. Cold water causes heart attacks and stomach cancer. I’m happy drinking water at room temperature but don’t think I’ll be switching to warm. It appears to reverse poor appetite - and increasing appetite seems like too much of a risk. The food for the homeless is lovely though.
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