it's perfectly normal for me

...to have my tea go cold while I am working, or to forget to eat then wonder why I am hungry late at night, but this morning was a first.

I looked at my palette of carefully mixed sepia tones for the photograph in the background of the portrait, and wondered how that yellow had got into the pigment.

It was a cornflake. And the tea was stone cold.

Time for a break, and a proper breakfast.