Charming Estonians

God it's lovely after Joanna's been - the fridge smells like a summer meadow, the kitchen is devoid of dirty crockery, the carpets are hoovered, the cushions on the sofa are plumped., the bath is sparkling . . . heaven, basically.

Actually I think I might be developing a slight thing for her. Her acne's cleared up wonderfully, though she is still (unsurprisingly) a good inch or so taller than me, so it's swings and roundabouts really . . .

Ponce

After the gym I went to Waitrose, the most lovely supermarket known to mankind. No really, there is no actual full sized supermarket chain (I'm excluding micro chains like Fresh and Wild) anywhere. It's way better in quality than the biggies (Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrisson's, Asda - in decreasing order of loveliness) and it has a proper variety of ingredients, other than, say, M&S, which is great, but is all about food assembly really.

It is however, a little bit on the spenny side. Here's Pan's shopping :-

ITEM	PRICE (£)
The Guardian	0.60
Goats Milk Semi-Skim 1L	1.19
Badoit Sparkling Water	0.92
Apple & Elderflower Juice 1L	1.45
Tomato Juice 1L	1.45
Beefsteak Tomatoes	2.75
Mackerel	1.65
Manchego	2.10
Pigeon Breasts	4.29
Fresh Rosemary	0.75
Anchovy Fillets	2.99
Coubtry Loaf	2.50
Mango	1.29
Nectarines	0.78
TOTAL	24.71

£24.71 on what for fucks sake - nearly 3 quid on tomatos, and there weren't that many of them. £2.50 on a loaf of bread. I mean it's good bread, better, it's fantastic bread, but still, bread at £5/Kg, I ask you.

Not going to stop me shopping there though. At least the mackerel was cheap.