Notes from the Uk, part the third

• The gap is very necessary to be minded; I don't they'd be allowed to have such uneven and wide gaps in the States (fear of litigation).
  
• coots, swans, a clutch of cute fuzzy off-white cygnets (one that kept on being reprimanded by its father)
  
• the glories of Foyle's though not theire prices (only kid books; I couldn't seem to focus on cookbooks or sf)
  
• Orange Kit Kats are quite lovely.
  
• I remembered to pronounce "aluminium" properly at the supermarket :-).
  
• King Harold's purported grave, which used to be inside
  
• one foot on either side of the meridian, marked by a mosaic at Waltham Abbey
  
• a knitted doll set of the last supper
  
• the oddities of year dating right after the switch to the Julian calendar (using fractions)
  
• The pew had flat leather pads hanging, presumably for kneeling during service, but all I could think of was yoga pillows.
  
• successful kosher cooking in a non-kosher kitchen: roasted potatoes'n'carrots'n'parsnips, and roasted salmon over spinach, topped with mango chutney. Hooray for lots of aluminium foil. (Plus, well, it's satisfying to cook for others.)
  
• free pubs! ('cause they don't like being enslaved :-)
  
• Lavender growing everywhere.
  
• weather even more variable than in MA

And probably more, once I can focus...