Tix Acquired + Heritage Tomatoes

Flying to Heathrow 9/21.

Interesting. The first field to fill out when buying tickets online for British Airways is "Choose Your Title." There are many titles ranging from Duchess to Rabbi.

El V wanted to choose Vicount and Vicountess. But he feared him impersonating Vics was probably a crime, so did not do that.

May I admit to great excitement.  How not? London, and then Liverpool and Bristol, the two centers of the slave trade industry, besides London, to do some mini research!  Fantastic!  I really am thrilled to have this opportunity.  So lucky.

Yesterday one of our local merchants gifted me with his home grown heritage tomatoes.  Because, when you are fortunate enough to achieve home grown tomatoes you have so many you don't know what to do with them.  This person has found the perfect solution for disposing of his vast overstock.  City apartment dwellers sans any teeny bit of turf to grow tomatoes, zuchs, peppers and basil will greedily beg him -- if they know.  What he did was discreetly pull out small brown  bag with the tomatoes in them and drop them into the purchase bag, saying, "Today a little extra something."

Then last night having dinner with one of el V's colleagues in the Angola programs the restaurant give us a "little extra something" as well.  It does make the neighborhood feel more neighborhoody, to have a little extra relationship something with the people who make their living here.  So I really appreciate these gestures.

I also have some perfectly ripe avocados.

I just put the finishing touches on a pot of posole.  Tomatoes and avocados and posole for dinner.  That will do, whether we have a thunderstorm or not. The humidity these days is so thick any movement makes one as wet as if rained upon.  I've never experienced this kind of humidity here before -- and we're mid-Atlantic coast, so summer humidity is the rule.  But this, this could be New Orleans or even Santiago de Cuba on the hottest of the heat wave days.

At least, thanks to the faithful a/c we've managed to stay productive through it all.  Lucky us!  And we are lucky, and don't I know it!