08 January 2007

With or Without Bits?

Bob and I met in the late afternoon at Gospel Oak train station, a convenient location since the trains that run near our flat and Bob's work for the day both stop there. So, coming from different directions, we coordinated our meeting by texting each other (cheaper than calling) the trains we were on and then went by bus to see what Highgate is all about. We'd heard the north-London neighbourhood was nice, but wow is it ever nice! Grand houses, beautiful streets, and evidence of money everywhere you look. The very small high street seemed interesting enough--but, as with all of our London days so far, we were fighting the dual menaces of the standard shop closing time of 5-5:30 P.M. and an early sunset, so we didn't get to go into too many shops or see down many of the dark streets. We both want to go on the Highgate walk that London Walks puts on--if it's anywhere near as engaging as their Hampstead walk, as done by Emily, it'll be well worth it! Anyway, I don't have photos of Highgate (you'll have to wait until we go back during the day), but on our way home, we stopped at Sainsbury's to stock up on quite a few things, and so today's pics are courtesy of that errand:
I like the word "bits" instead of the Canadian "pulp"; it just has absolutely no airs about it.
We haven't yet tried this tea (although we quite liked the "Yorkshire Gold" tea we got at Vancouver's Gourmet Warehouse), but liked the hard-water marketing ploy. For those of you who don't know, London's water is shockingly hard, especially coming from Vancouver, where the water is shockingly soft. Something in the middle would be nice.
Of course in Vancouver these would be called English muffins, but I suppose if they were called that here, it would be a bit odd.
And finally, this is the milk we put in our coffee. At first glance, Canadians might assume that it's 2% milk because of the prominent number on the label, but that's the size (2 pints--things are even less metric here than in Canada). In fact, this milk is 3.6% fat, roughly equivalent to Canadian homogenized milk, and is just generically referred to as "milk." Bob uses skimmed milk with his muesli, while I've been having yogourt--compared with Canada, there are so many varieties and flavours of yogourt here that milk just seems so boring!

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