I can haz break naow?

[catspaw]

Dear Mother Nature/Higher Power/Whom It May Concern,

It's NOT that I don't appreciate your Bounty. I seriously do. I love having a ready supply of fresh, organic veg. But...



do they really all have to come at once regardless of sowing times? I'm drowning under a mountain of mixed metaphors produce here...

I love cauliflower, I really do. Here's a cauliflower:



It's the size of a soccer ball.

I have six of them sitting in my kitchen, waiting to get bagged up and frozen.

I'm also dealing with the Euro mountain of peas, broad beans, carrots, lettuce (what the hell is here to do with lettuce?), strawberries and courgettes (zucchini).

And I'm balefully eying up the raspberries, broccoli, syboes (spring onions, scallions), early onions (red and white) that won't keep that well, cabbage and salad potatoes.

And please don't get me started on the plums...

::sigh:: Summer has its drawbacks.

And the weather's shite too :-(

Comments

[aswanargent.livejournal.com]

How about bagging nice assortments of the fruits and veggies and leaving them anonymously on the neighbours' doorsteps in the dead of night?

Actually, I could have taken a sackful of anything not needing to be cooked off your hands today and been a big hit on the train as we sat and sat and sat and then sat some more at the Waverley Station. My 16:43 train finally left at 21:20, and by then it was three trains' worth of people, because we had the 17:09 people on there as well as the 21:00 folks. Something about a "massive signals failure affecting the entire Fife region". I finally walked in the door here in Stonehaven a little past midnight. And as it's 02:46 now, I think I should call it a day and go to bed! Btw, do you mind if I friend you?

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

Oh no! What an utter pain in the neck :-((( You must have been totally shattered when you finally got back, there's almost nothing more exhausting and frustrating than endlessly waiting, and on top of all that walking too. And from what you say, I gather the buffet service wasn't up to much either, for three trainloads of people :-( I hope it didn't completely knock the gloss off the day.

It was fun meeting you yesterday - and I've friended you back already :-)

[aswanargent.livejournal.com]

After we'd been sitting on the train for about an hour, they announced that there was complimentary tea, coffee, biscuits, and mini pretzels available in the buffet car. So that rounded off the dinner of carrot sticks with hummus, salt and vinegar crisps, and chocolate-covered peanuts I'd purchased at the Marks & Spencer shop, partly in an effort to get a 10p piece for the pay toilets in the station, lol! All in all, quite a day, but I wouldn't have missed it.

Oh, and if you'd like to know what kept Tavi from joining us, here's what she was doing while we were climbing hills at the zoo. http://kleio-caissa.livejournal.com/25732.html