Breakfasts Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Five-and-Six

No 295: Sesame bagel with damson jam.

No. 296: Blueberry wheats.

I can't help wondering whether Germany and France are feeling rather like the ant in Aesop's fables to Greece's grasshopper amongst all this bailout furore.

I've never really liked that particular fable. Surely there must be some middle ground between singing all summer and slaving. Part singing, part slaving perhaps. We can't despise the grasshopper for being creative, can we -- even if he was a little financially short-sighted...