After knowing for only 8 years, N finally figured out how to engage with me during the end of the academic year.
4 kinds of sausage and my favorite very hard black bread from Lithuania will help me deal with the insanity that late April – early May always are for an academic.
Clarissa's Blog 
N’s care basket. Does he like the same kind of sausages and bread?
LikeLike
No, he’s completely indifferent. He likes sweet things.
I don’t know how I would be able to live with a person who laid claims to my sausage.
LikeLike
I’m not generally a fan of sausage unless it’s Cumberland or Lincolnshire sausage, or perhaps Sainsbury’s Bramley apple sausage, but I do agree with N on sweets …
For me sweets are a life-saver, quite literally — I have to deal with hypoglycaemia on a regular basis, so the occasional Double Decker bar or Cadbury Fudge helps considerably.
A few friends have likened me to being like the character Rodney McKay from the Stargate series — if his blood sugar gets too low he turns into Super Cranky Man, and actually, so do I.
Maybe this is why I empathised with Jeremy Clarkson’s situation — I came close to blows with one idiot decades ago whose grandstanding and wasting of my time left my blood sugar dangerously below 65 mg/dL …
LikeLike
Oh, I really miss that bread. Will have to scrounge some up this week.
LikeLike
It’s totally the best in the world, eh? 🙂
LikeLike
It’s the smell rather than the taste that I miss most, in all honesty.
LikeLike
Those prices are incredibly reasonable — one brief tour through the Harrods food hall will clue you in to what we normally have to pay for meats.
LikeLike
I know, the prices of pretty much everything slaughtered me in London back in 2012. I have no idea how people manage. A cabbie who drove us said he’d been living in London his entire life, and the city was getting impossibly expensive.
LikeLike