We were later in rising than usual today, so we couldn’t disguise the event this time: breakfast-cum-lunch had simply become lunch by the time we sat down.

• eggs from truly pastured chickens, and thick bacon from Millport Dairy Farm, Backyard Farms Maine ‘cocktail tomatoes’ from Whole Foods, toast from loaves of a Balthazar sourdough rye from Schaller & Weber and a Campagne Bien Cuit from Foragers, micro sorrel from Two Guys from Woodbridge, parsley from Eataly, a small amount of a sliced baby leek from Lucky Dog Organic Farm, and a little bit of powdered form L’eKama
• the music was Hanns Eisler’s ‘Deutsche Sinfonie’, Lothar Zagrosek conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Ernst Senff Choir [we purchased the CD in Berlin some years ago]