Saturday 3rd of January, 2004
far too much of
I walk up to Borough Market and buy myself some preserved fruit - cranberries and dried strawberries - and nuts from the Cranberry stall, and then walk home via Tate Modern and The Cut. Walking down the cut I notice that the left-wing bookshop there is now the Calder bookshop (perhaps it always was). I go in and browse. After some time I find a book that I was looking for. Indeed, I've been looking for it since 1987 when a tutor called Max Eastley told me about it. It's Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel. Also I stop by the kitchenware shop where I buy some containers with lids, part of an ongoing plan to get my Cable Madness under control. After eating a few too many mouthfulls of the fruit-and-nuts I go out. At a stall outside the E&C shopping centre I buy a wooly hat and gloves (at at total of £3.00!) and then go upstairs to see if I can get some dulce de leche (I'm afraid to ask - isn't that sad!) and then go and buy some muesli base and more dried fruits from the Health Food shop on the Walworths Road, wander around the market on East Street and then shop in Safeway before wandering back up to the E&C centre, where I get other shopping from Tesco. In short, it's the most disorganised shopping trip I've been on recently. At home I make the bits and pieces into a muesli, which I then eat far too much of. Then I make some dinner, which I also eat far too much of. Then I sit around feeling bloated and watch Britain's Real Monarch and Elizabeth. During this latter, the A-level history student in me has a hard time resisting the urge to complain about the details. Go to bed feelin uncomfortably full.