I am eating camembert with pepper jelly and it is heavenly.

Speaking of camembert...

A Conservative senator today bristled at questions auditors have put to her about her expenses, saying she shouldn't be expected to eat airline breakfasts.

"If you want ice-cold camembert with broken crackers, have it!" said Senator Nancy Ruth.

Ruth said auditors had taken issue with "a couple of times that my assistant put in [a claim] for a breakfast when I was on a plane, and they say I should have not claimed because I should have eaten that breakfast. Well, those breakfasts are pretty awful.

"I just don't think they understand anything of what it's like to have to fly around the world to get here to Ottawa."

From the Dec. 1, 2014 to Feb. 28, 2015, Ruth charged $5,799.09 in living expenses in the national capital region and $11,014.87 in travel "between the senator's province/territory of appointment and the National Capital Region."

Ruth lives in Toronto.