Quotation: The Simple Pleasure of Food

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

Dodie Smith (born May 3, 1896) best known for I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmations

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Chicken soup (at Harry Morgan, established 1947)

Saturday lunch with Big Son

Ralph Steadman's drawings in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - which I finished today

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Finishing Justin Cartwright's The Song Before It Is Sung on our new sofa

Walking down to the library and picking up a couple of books for each of the enfants terribles

Being bought a slice of cake

Old friends - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Meeting up with Nick Golson for the first time in over two decades, over a leisurely dinner at the Wolseley in Piccadilly

Chicken soup

Walking across St James's Park at night

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

The 39 Steps at the Criterion theatre - our family christmas show

Salami sandwiches from Amici - tube picnic

The mysterious cloudy full moon

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Walking down to Nahling, the local Thai, with the Boyz to mark the start of the weekend

Trying to help BAFTA get its shit together on the Interactive front with Malcolm Garrett and accomplices

Buying dressing up gear from Culture Vultures, one of the weirder of our weird local shops - Charlie Chaplin moustaches and canes and moustache glue

Streets of London - today's Happiness Experiment entry

Clerkenwell

Poached eggs

Lunch outdoors in Charlotte Street with David Bausola, shooting the breeze

This weekend's Happiness Experiment entries

13/10/07

The elation of the England rugby world cup victory over France - extraordinaire! Watched it downstairs at the Lord Palmerstone on Dartmouth Park Hill when I was supposed to be upstairs otherwise engaged - so naughty but nice factor too.



Getting D's compass fixed at the Italian clock-makers in Crouch End



Kicking the rugby ball with N and Gonzalo at Kenwood



14/10

Chatting with Alan Greenberg at the rugby field



Scraping light rods



Moroccan style soup in the autumn sun

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

The Kindertransporte monument by Liverpool Street station



Roast potatoes



Talking about Affluence + Happiness at the Innovation Reading Circle focused on The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

Soap opera - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Soap-stone carving with D - went up to Tiranti's in Warren Street to get the stone and riffers - memories of moustachioed Laurence Broderick and his otters



Stracciatelli - at Church Lane italiano - with a little sprinkling of Neil Diamond



Scraping lightrods (listening to Radio 4)

Image courtesy of Laurence Broderick - www.laurencebroderick.co.uk