Eat, drink and be merry!

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    On Saturdays we often adopt the Hobbit tradition of second breakfasts as we are early risers and usually have something modest and savoury first thing, following that later on with the sweet and more indulgent once the patissseries of Edinburgh have opened their doors.

    A second breakfast is 'a good thing' - now and again - so come eleven o'clock this morning, in honour of J.R.R. Tolkien and his creation (and here's the reader's report on the manuscript of The Hobbit, filed by the young Rayner Unwin, while there is more on the 75th. anniversary celebration here), I shall raise my cup of coffee in a toast and tuck into something tasty.