Late Breakfast — Biscuits and Gravy, and a cup of Rosie Lee

Day Two

While I might have said I was saving weight on this trip, I omitted to mention that I carried in a real book to read (though I saved the weight of the Kindle in the process). The relevance of which was that I stayed up far too late reading, and then had trouble getting off to sleep. It had been a clear cool night — 41°F, and I woke up at nine-thirty!

For the uninitiated, Rosie Lee is Cockney rhyming slang for tea. My father was a Cockney (born in London within the sound of Bow Bells), so my childhood vocabulary was extended by all manner of cockney slang terms.

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