Whilst trekking (and now aching accordingly....going to sleep with some dihydrocodeine, a sleeping pill, a couple of muscle relaxers and a cigar) throughout the city and the town on the far outskirts, although a bottle of laudanum, or at least, the OTC modern equivalent to it, did prove enough to stop my hips from screaming at being put through such torture, not as strong as in victorian times, but drink an entire bottle and it does indeed work, actually, it gave me a nice case of the warm fuzzies and a lot of extra stamina)
Came across a little market stall, selling fresh fruit. Grabbed myself two punnets of really fat, ripe, juicy strawberries for a pound for the both of them. Just at the right stage of ripe, too, at the point where you can just fold back the leaves, hold on to the stem, and suck, leaving nothing left but leaves and a bit of imploded strawberry skin adhering to the base, before flicking it down the nearest grid and grabbing another to much. Quite a refreshing little snack. Also bought two bottles of a knockoff version of powerade sports drink. Tastes the same, blue raspberry, same size bottles, but the knockoff version gets you two bottles for the price of one bottle of the brand name version with 10p change.
Just what I needed, after roaming all over the city and surrounding towns, rounding up the supplies I need for a certain chemistry experiment.
ponds from now on.