Saturday: Packing Up Britanski Market

Our friends, the Hermanos, had a tapas brunch today, so that Maria Luisa could see everyone socially before she heads into her last month of pregnancy.  Not that she is going into isolation but she is getting more and more tired so is going to be out and about less.  It was a very pleasant do, with great food and nice company.  We had, let me see, three Italians, two Dutch, two Finns, one Greek, one Peruvian, two Belgians, one Moroccan, one Norwegian, one Spaniard, one Chilean and us two flying the flag for Queen and country.  It always makes me really grateful that the common language is English.  

On the way home, we stopped off at the market for some vegetable shopping but got there very much at the packing up stage.  I admire the chap on the left's optimism with his sunglasses.  Temperatures have really plummeted and we haven't seen the sun in days!

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'The Diary Of A Madman And Other Selected Stories' by Nikolay Gogol was a brilliant read.  The stories were really compelling and the main story had me laughing out loud.  'Selected Stories' always intrigues me somewhat - selected by whom?  And where are the ones that have been left out?  What if I want to read those?