Have a terrible hangover today. Had a great evening last night having escaped the confines of my sick bed. Started off in the lovely Fox Reformed in Stoke Newington. Ended up in the less wholesome Efe’s Snooker Club on Stoke Newington High Street. A twenty four hour drinking place – I still can’t work out how they got round the licensing laws, but since moving to this area about 5 years ago, I have had cause to thank its success in doing so more than once.

Anyway. Due to hangover, have little to write today. Just updates on two things:

1. The chocolate research is going well. My current favourite is a L’artisan bar called Samana. The rest of the team is still on the Maya Gold. But I made the decision today to wean myself back onto coffee, and had one of Bloke’s excellent cappuccinos, and this ‘tobacco and liqourice flavoured’ bar had the perfect bitterness to accompany it. Getting back onto coffee was probably not the best idea given how I was feeling, and given that I was smoking last night, itself not the best idea after the week I’ve had.

2. Having thus handled the state of my head spectacularly badly (and that’s not even mentioning the cigarettes I had today, my inability to eat, and the resurgence of icckiness of illness), it was pretty upsetting to read in the papers that Jan Raath and Angus Shaw have had to leave Zimbabwe for South Africa after their recent police harassment. This leaves only one foreign journalist in the country in the run-up to the elections. And even though she is one of Zimbabwe’s best and most informed journalists, Mugabe is clearly stacking the odds more and more, and I just hope that the world recognises that no matter what the apologist election observers from the region are saying, the whole thing is going to be a complete and utter fucking farce.

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