I've never met Jill - she's a fellow PBASE supporter who I've been corresponding with for some time. We share a love of food and of books. We both have partners called David. We now have (nearly) matching cameras since Jill bought herself a G5 last week.

Jill leaves comments on my photos regularly and is especially nice about the ones of food. She has encouraged me to try to sell some of my food pics commercially. I have been 'practicing' some food shots - I'm going to post a mini-gallery of today's attempts later.

I liked the symbolism of breaking bread for a friend - it's an age old part of a social race. So Jill, thanks for making my day (again) with your kind words. I'm so thrilled that your little girl now knows Charing Cross!

It makes me feel really great to know that through PBASE I've made such a lot of friends that in any normal circumstances, I would never have met. I love to share people's lives in this way. Dan Chusid - whose amazing galleries of the fires in San Diego were terrifying, Sue Crocker, the PADers, Chris, Ray, Norman, Pall, Michael, Jeanne, Ian and the rest, Koray from Turkey, Timothy Hoffman and all the rest - what an amazing cyber community this is.

The bread is home-made foccaccia, served (as Ian rightly guessed) with organic extra virgin olive oil and good quality balsamic vinegar and if I am to get good enough at the food photos to try to sell them I am also going to be hugely FAT as a great deal of this was eaten while composing my shot!