She said she loved lemon so instead of the usual two slices I gave her four - pretty much half the fruit. A few minutes later she asked if she could buy a whole lemon. Her husband squeezed it all into her tea. Apparently she eats a whole lemon every day as others might eat an orange.
"Do you get lots of strange people like us in here?" he asked.
Another couple took a table in the conservatory. The husband came to the counter to order.
"Two teas please," he said. Then, looking at the cakes, added: "we can't have anything else because it's Tuesday."
He told me he's following an "alternate day diet" he'd seen on the tv. The idea is that they eat very little on a Tuesday and Thursday - 600 calories apparently is what they manage on. But just on those two days.
I took their teas to their table.
His wife asked me to wrap up a piece of carrot cake to take away.
"For tomorrow" she said.
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