Pancetta is pork belly cured and rolled. Essentially it's bacon but a slightly different sweet:salty balance.

Yeehee. Actually I was all worried that you'd be difficult to cook for. My stars, this is going to be fun mental prep.

www.fattedcalf.com is where I get sausage these days, 'cos they've opened a local store which is awesome. It's full of trendy positive adjectives and not filler soy or starch.

Bring hunger. Yes. And a sense of patience re: board games; I've not played all of them either and Barnabas keeps trying to get me to play more Star Fleet Battles.