ahoy. quick word on l'enclume - it is very good fun, but the waiting staff are a bit faulty towers. best things i ate were a kind of frozen liquid chocolate stone and a lovely foie doughnut thing. the two names before me in the bookings register had se1 and se10 postcodes. i have been doing very little this weekend apart from cooking/eating and making sloe gin which, i suppose, is a kind of cooking anyway. i went to the john lewis foodhall today which is just like waitrose but with more staff and a better layout. bad luck to blighty about the rugby, but there you go. it all went much better than i would have predicted, had i predicted, although to be honest i have seen very little of it indeed. my poor old dad will not be cheered by the result, though cheering he doubtless deserves.