Just Fight It Off If You Can.

One really does have to drop everything and reflect when Headline News announces that the price of bacon is about to skyrocket from $3.00 a pound to a whopping $4.20 a pound and I'm not making these numbers up. And did you know this isn't just going to impact those who eat breakfast (occasionally I think most people do) but other people as well. Those that eat lunch and dinner may also "feel the pinch" since bacon is becoming a more common food item throughout the day according to someone with a name.

You see, it just doesn't even come across as plausible when someone else says it but when it is prattled off by some vacant tarted-up mall rat on Headline News it sounds like one of the most pressing issues of the moment. To hell with the crumbling Euro-zone and its impact on the Diamond Jubilee and cut to scene of Precious shoveling down her Denny's platter o'slop. Alone yet talking to someone off camera about how hard it is to get by on 8,500 calories a day.

Consequently there was a brief foray into English murder mystery and now we are squarely back into period Romance. So many family estates frittered away on the base appetites of titled & profligate wastrels! We're in France now so the carpets and porcelain are different, but the rest of the story remains both comfortably familiar and gripping.