Before you can serve soup...

Before you can serve soup, you need to know a bit about Food Hygiene, so five of us attended a day-long course at Nunhead and Peckham Rye Area Housing Office.

Soupers radiate quiet confidence after completing
their Food Hygiene multiple choice exam.

So, now we're all certified, we're about ready to roll. Of course, we're going to need some equipment. There's an old stick blender at the Pullens Centre but the big pot has gone missing and the most capacious available holds only six litres, which is not a lot of soup. On the other hand, we've only got about half a dozen soup bowls so far. Early days, innit. Actually, it's the day before.

By way of getting in the mood, local ska champs, The Top Cats, closed Elefest last night with a demonstration of their own patented method of soup making: