Listen, as every morning this week, to J playing Polish Christmas carols. One of the many benefits of Spotify, even the free version. We also have a small speaker with us, though not always required, depending on the size of the room and whether we’re both listening. Also good for podcasts.
Out early - early for us that is, as our intent is to do our weekend shopping today as tomorrow will have crazy queues and Sunday and Monday are holidays, though probably not impossible to pick up bread, wine or some other essential at a nearby periptero. Analogy here is with Quebec, not most of the rest of Canada. Taking a course in Ottawa but staying in a house borrowed in Hull used to be able to stop at a dépanneur on the way home and buy a hot baguette and a bottle of wine. Flowers too, had I wanted. Okay, that was better in Quebec. But no winter storms here and no complaints.
Plump fresh chicken, leeks, carrots, cauliflower. A lemon for €0.10 (15 cents Canadian). At the market in the old days if you bought a cauliflower for less than a euro the seller would often throw in a lemon rather than make change. Well, wouldn’t have been euros in the old days, but that was the principle. Still not willing to pay €4 for package of cranberries, imported and considered as exotic as dragon fruit. Do succumb and by kourabiedes, Cypriot Christmas cookies somewhat like shortbread and dusted with icing sugar. When in Cyprus….Think that good Cypriot cooks make them with butter, but perfectly reputable Cypriot bakers definitely don’t - though charge as if they did.
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