{"id":94,"date":"2004-08-21T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2004-08-21T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2004-08-21T16:40:12","slug":"this-little-piggie-went-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"This little piggie went to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/boromarket.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boroughmarket.org.uk\/\">Borough Market<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>On this gloriously sunny English summer&#8217;s morning, I jumped onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/dlr\/\">DLR<\/a>* with sprogs 1 and 4 in tow and headed up to the market to grab a few foodie delights and meet up with with some old work colleagues. The bignoseduglyguy raiding party foraged far and wide, seeking out unusual ingredients, tasty snacks&#8230;and all the stalls with free samples. These included organic cheese, smoked eel, cockles, pain chocolat, a stonking espresso made with organic beans. Purchases included bunches of fresh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookies.shopkeepers.co.uk\/samphire.shtml\">samphire<\/a> harvested in the fens of Norfolk, unsalted anchovy fillets and organic smoked streaky bacon. Further along I also picked up some wild beef sausages from a very nice lady whose stall had been mentioned on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/archers\/\">The Archers<\/a> and whose chalkboard was given over to celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/olympics_2004\/rowing\/3585478.stm\">Matthew Pinsent&#8217;s fourth Olympic Gold<\/a> earlier this morning &#8211; apparently her son used to row at the same club as Pinsent. All this activity had worked up appetites and thirsts and so, after a pit stop for chips (sprogs) and steak and salad ciabatta (me), we wandered over to The Market Porter for a lunchtime pint or two before wending our way home again.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/marketporter.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>*Travel tip for London parents: Buying an off-peak Zone 1 &amp; 2 family travel card for me and the eldest sprog (No. 4 goes free) meant that all three of us could travel anywhere in Central London just \u00c2\u00a32.10. This is cheaper than if I had paid for just myself with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oystercard.com\/\">Oyster Card<\/a>.  Credit for this thrifty wheeze goes to SWMBO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borough Market On this gloriously sunny English summer&#8217;s morning, I jumped onto the DLR* with sprogs 1 and 4 in tow and headed up to the market to grab a few foodie delights and meet up with with some old work colleagues. The bignoseduglyguy raiding party foraged far and wide, seeking out unusual ingredients, tasty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}