Well, whatever Mozart may or may not have understood of this secondary meaning (and some of us Haffner clue to this day), at least Carter knew what Figment...

Strauss - Salami

Busoni - Piano Concerto in C Major, Op, 39 (whose central Pizza Serioso must be the longest one ever made)

Sorabji - Il Grido del Galliano d'Oro

Bernstein - Candied

Searle - Put Away the Fruits

Beethoven - Boeuf Wellington's Victory

Vaughan Williams - Sir John Dory in Love

Maxwell Davies - (revised version, this) - St. Thomas' Hake

Puccini - Gianni Streaky

Franck - Les Djinns (needs only Lachenmann's ...den Schweppfelholzern and a slice of Ferneyhough's aforementioned Lemma-... and it's perfect!)...

Best,

Alistair

Are you saying they say "Le nozze de Fig-aro"  and not the nose of the Figaro. I always thought it was something about his nose. Such a disappointment.

You could of fooll me. Every time they say the name in Italian I think they say nosle of something that reminds me of nostrle. I only remember because of that. Some of us here are very damb. Shostakovich wrote opera Nose, but this is Nose of Figaro.

The puns are allowed to be very bad, so here goes.

Breakfast:

Liszt, Toastentanz (arr. Butterworth), with Poulenc, Les Marmalades de Tiresias (wince).

And a few puds:

More Poulenc, Les Caramelites*

Warlock's Cadburyole Sweet

Handel, Eton Mess-iah


*Note the "-lite" bit. This pudding is healthy.

Bearing in mind we're here for diets, what actually is healthiest for breakfast? I know all about the bird-food stuff, muesli, and fruit etc. and porridge (which many people swear by -yuk). But is it healthy to eat a lot at the beginning of the day? I hardly ever can, never mind want to.

Very fond of marmalade, though. My mother made it every year, for years, but has stopped now because it's so labour-intensive (and that includes cleaning the sticky film off all the kitchen surfaces afterwards).

I tend to start each day with a large bowl of cereal (usually some type of crunch cereal) with ample amounts of Greek yoghurt, sometimes some fresh fruit mixed with that, a large glass of orange juice, and one of my own very large killer espressos. When away, I often have a cooked breakfast, and sometimes cook one myself. Now, that is hardly very healthy, but it's fortifying for the day, and maybe if one's going to eat like that, that's the best time of day to do it? Can't be any worse than a very rich three-course meal in the evening, with less time to work it off (er, maybe I should look at the scales before making such confident pronouncements ). Mind you, the early morning cigarettes probably utterly negate any possible good effect this may all have (only two-and-a-half months until July, isn't it? Might be a good time to take certain things more seriously....).

I can't understand the porridge thing either, martle and Mort - what's the appeal that anyone finds in it?

Someone told me that the more you eat for breakfast, the quicker you get hungry again during the morning. That fits with my experience, actually. During the week if I'm going to work I generally don't eat anything before I leave the house, but I grab a banana on the way to the station. I used to drink tea and eat toast before I left the house, but now I wait till I get to work.

If I'm at home I generally wake up much later (since I don't usually go to bed till at least 2) and often have bacon and tomatoes and a fried egg, but sometimes not till a couple of hours after I wake up, so it's often around the same time other people would be eating lunch.

In fact, all I've eaten so far today is a toasted pitta bread, but I'm just thinking of going out to the café on the corner for a cooked breakfast now.

Wait A, don`t leave without your sundried muesli baguette!!