We sat down to a light dairy, fish and bagels Purim eve dinner tonight. Straightforward enough easy meal when everyone comes home starving after the public reading of the Book of Esther in synagogue following a day of fasting. Custom is not to break the fast until after hearing the public reading of the Book of Esther.
Among the many cute fancy dress costumes we saw tonight there was one very practical one - a kid dressed up like an old fashioned refreshments seller at a cinema or theatre, except instead of popcorn or chocolate she had individual little bottles of juice and pastries which she handed out to everyone as soon as the reading finished. Smart kid.
Back to our dinner at home though. DH set out the salads and I started cutting open bagels and, well, found this face in the first one that I cut.
Purim prank? Serendipity? Any way this could have been intentional rather than a fluke?
Could not have been any more appropriate timing than on this festival of topsyturvyness.
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