Turnips

Up bright and early this morning and off to the Byward market to top up on brussels sprouts. Then, spotting a pile of swedes, here called turnips, could not resist buying one of those. The chap selling it, brown enough to be a land worker rather than a shop worker and rather older than most of the other vendors, admitted to getting up at six o'clock, not as early as I had expected.

Back past the iPho restaurant which seems to specialise in something called bubble tea at $5.95 a go or so. Then past the Cornerstone, not a rather off-beat church, as in Epsom, rather one of the many bar restaurants in this area. And so to the Murray Street baker to take an artisanale baguette and a half rye, this last to go under the cinnamon honey we had bought the day before and which was said to go well on buttered brown toast.

Home to find the litter pickers up and running, equipped, inter alia, with what looked like a laptop bag. Maybe it was actually a post bag and the litter pickers double up as deliverers of election fliers.

Reference 1: http://ipho-ottawa.com/.

Reference 2: http://www.cornerstonebarandgrill.ca/, not to be confused with http://epsomcf.org.uk/, or any of the other cornerstone church outfits which seem to be scattered generously across the globe.

Reference 3: http://www.heavenlyhoney.ca/. The honey turned out to be a mixture of No. 1 white honey, butter and cinnamon. A smooth but slightly granular mix, in texture somewhat like the orgo peanut butter we use at home (rather than the inappropriately smooth stuff we got by mistake from Loblaws. See http://www.loblaws.ca/en_CA.html). For some reason, I associate to the huge tubs of something called Nutella which seem to decorate the tops of things like refrigerators in the cafés here. See http://www.nutella.ca/.