Farmers market

For a few months we've been trying to improve our general lifestyle, including food, exercise, prioritisation of what's important (and what's not), reduction of stress, increased sleep, etc.
I'm reading the Primal Blueprint. I'm a bit sceptical but what Mark says does make a lot of sense and I don't think there's much harm in trying.

I have to say that I enjoy a bit of stress at the workplace. It helps me to get stuff done. I also don't feel that I get overly stressed by work or by too many other issues.

What does get me a bit stressed is not having time to spend on my hobbies (or with friends) and that's something I'm trying to actively work on.
Prioritisation is also a work-in-progress as I'm often a workaholic.
Lack of sleep is my biggest problem and what I compromise on when I'm juggling too many things.
I really need to work on that.


Food...

Changing eating habits is actually one of the easier things to do and we're making good progress.
To this end we've been gradually changing our recipes and ingredients to eat more healthily (although with our reduced rice intake, that's one thing I miss from time to time).
Anyway for the past two weekends we've been visiting various farmers markets, buying fresher, organic and free-range produce rather than the mass-grown, potentially chemically-stimulated and genetically-modified horrors that may enter the food chain via the large supermarkets.

Here are some photos from today.
Actually...one of them is not from today. Can you guess which one?

Although my new role, on my new project (whilst still moonlighting for my old team) is keeping me quite busy, I found time to visit Borough Market with Borek, where we met old colleagues Minesh and Vinoth for lunch at Applebee's fish restaurant.
The service is very friendly, atmosphere cosy and the fish was great (or as good as it can be without being sushi or sashimi) ;-)
We all shared 2 starters, consisting of sardines and mackerel. The mackerel was fantastic. We then moved onto Skate, which was also very impressive. I will definitely return. Eating fish with knives and forks is ok but I might sneak in my chopsticks next time. Chopsticks have the dual benefit of not crushing the flesh as well as being better suited to removing bones. As a result, today I ate many bones.

Afterwards we wandered around the market stalls before heading back to work.
Winter is a tough time to remain creative, with short daylight hours, low contrast, poor weather and a general lack of motivation. Hopefully the last few days have seen me bottom out. I'm feeling the urge to take photos returning. Perhaps this is partly due to getting to grips with my new role, reducing the psychological pressures that stifle my photography.
I found these colourful vegetables in one stall particularly appealing.

Spellbound by vegetables.

The Ricoh GRDiv does a great job of capturing hues in daylight, despite its small 1/1.7" sensor.

Today is the first day since upgrading the firmware to v2.2.1, although I have to admit the changes seem fairly minor and I didn't detect any difference compared to before.