November 27th (Wednesday)

The bacon cure I ordered from a company in the UK has finally arrived. Since all efforts of buying from the company directly failed (emails, even a phone call) my mother kindly bought it then sent it on.
It comes as quite a relief to get it in my hands untouched as the white powder in a plastic bag looks remarkably like a heroin consignment and I had visions of custom officials in a white room jabbing their little fingers into my precious cure like you see in the movies.