{"id":7775,"date":"2011-09-06T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2011-09-07T01:43:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:43:48","slug":"on-september-6th-2011-a-welcome-london-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/09\/06\/on-september-6th-2011-a-welcome-london-gloom\/","title":{"rendered":"On September 6th, 2011, A WELCOME LONDON GLOOM…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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welcome lush rainy back garden at friend's Elephant & Castle flat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…is what our flight from Italy descended into this afternoon, arriving into London City airport from Brindisi, and after ten days of constant summer heat and sun with barely a cloud in my memory I have been looking forward to an autumnal rainy chill here (as I settle in for five days to prepare for the October 13th opening of the London Animal Estates HQ<\/em><\/a>) but still feeling the glow of the Puglia sun on my skin as I walk the city streets hunting for my first meal, struggling to locate some decent produce to make a stew – and it is at this moment that I am snapped back to reality of large northern contemporary metropolis life, where real food is not a basic pleasure and right, freely\/simply\/cheaply available around you, but a rare luxury – though what really did me in, and made me really miss Italy on my first hours out, was a display of figs – which once eaten off the trees around you, at the very moment they are ripe, during the few weeks they are in season, as a part of your daily life and landscape…you are ruined for good and never look at a shipped-in crate of them the same, did a tear come to my eye there in that supermarket? yes, maybe it did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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