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in a little market on the square near us three mornings a week; it has very good fresh vegetables, cheese, meat, & fruit and I must patronize it more in the future. Coffee, meat, eggs, butter cost about the same as in the U.S. Bread, vegetables, some cheeses, fruit,  are all cheaper. Powdered coffee is available, Nestles. Chicory is not put in your coffee bought in restaurants any more. Milk is pasteurized, water is safe. There are almost no flies in Europe, and I have seen no other insects (household).

The little hotel we stayed in in London had central heating, abetted by a gas heater that ran all evening for a shilling (before regular heat turned on in winter, I guess). We ran it, to dry laundry & take the nip out of the air.

Jack has mastered our furnace & now we are quite warm and not too busy tending it. It is not very cold here as yet, not winter coat weather anyway. Today it is very cloudy. A Japanese physicist is visiting. I don't know if I mentioned him before. He spent 6 years in England previous to coming here and speaks no French as yet, so he was glad to talk to us. We are all waiting for the landlord to arrive in order to pay him the rent. He comes around quite often to see how things are going.

The local garbage collection system is worthy of a note. The company (city?) distributes its own, very sturdy large cans. Twice a week the truck comes by. The cans fit exactly into a hole in the