From the deep

The perfect lunch after a swim in the Mediterranean. (On a day when it was 10 degrees back in Preston, it was 30 here in Larnaca.) I do love octopus, although sometimes I wonder if it's too intelligent to eat, and then again sometimes I wonder what kind of a criterion that is. Sometimes I think I ought really to be vegetarian - trouble is, so many of our fellow-creatures are so bloody tasty; and many of them eat each other too. Which leaves the question, could I justify cannibalism? Possibly, in the right circumstances....