Thanks! Some of the pictures of Paris buns did make me think of what I know of crumbly scones. Where I live in Italy you can also find breakfast pastries that are barely sweet, dry and a bit gritty, and if you are drinking coffee and don’t want a sugar rush – which can sometimes just make you feel hungrier – then some of these drier pastries have their appeal.
I hope you are high and dry where you are. I have watched the news of the difficult storm Frank. Half my mother’s family emigrated from Scotland (Sutherland, Inverness-shire) to the US, and I have long harbored a desire to live there, and actually keep a rather large folder of towns, both east and west, where I’d be interested to make my home (there are so many very charming houses in Scotland). Unfortunately for me personally, as long as Scotland is part of the UK, obtaining legal residency there may be out of my reach. So I’m stuck in sunny Italy. 
(although it is rainy, chill and grey today)
