Bright and sunny this morning and so I went down to the waterfront to see what had come in with the morning's catch. Bought a couple of small octopus and a few scrappy heads and bits of fish tails. I had no real idea what the fish were and I had to make out that these were for my cat but I don't think that the trader believed me. He gave me the usual up and down look that said the one word: barbarian. I didn't care. We haggled over the price and I pretended not to understand what he meant until he finally threw up his hands in frustration and let me have the scraps for nothing. I thought of asking for something to wrap them in but one look at the expression on his face told me to use my own. I handed a few bronze coins over for the octopus and slipped clumsily back into the crowds behind me. Biloba's Baisse, that's where these little babies were heading! All I needed was a collection of suitable vegetables and a bit of space to cook them.