No Waiting

It's Sunday, it's freezing, it's the first day of February after a very long January, and it's see-how- much-marmalade-can-be-loaded-onto-a-piece-of toast day at Loudon's by the canal.

We are now so well known to the staff, that the toast arrives almost as fast as we can settle ourselves into our little corner. Just to upstage them one day, I will demand eggs benedict, but not yet

We don't always walk home by the canal; sometimes we walk along rather grotty lanes to access the main road. This lane backing on to student residences is one of them. Sometimes grott can be made to have a certain artistic appeal with a little help from Photoshop.