Casting Nasturtiums.

[rhythmaning]

A couple of Christmases ago, I was given, together with a table cloth needed for the big meal, a set of cotton napkins.

I hadn't really considered myself a napkin kind of person. So I was as surprised as anyone else to discover I was. I have used a napkin at every meal at home ever since.

In the autumn, I acquired a small jug. Handy, I thought, for pouring water, just a drop, into cask-strength whisky.

And I do use it for this.

But, more shocking than the napkin discovery, was that I am also someone who uses the jug for the purpose it was designed.

I have become someone who uses a milk jug.

I would have laughed at people who use a milk jug. The height of middle class pretension. Twee. Not me.

How wrong I was! Beside my napkin st breakfast, I place my small jug with milk. Irritatingly, always a little more milk than I need for my two-and-a-half cups of coffee. (That's a cafetiere to you.)

How low could I go? How much further to fall?

I think this might be the limit.

I am someone who has flowers in their salad.

The pack of salad of salad I bought to have with my lunch contained, unbeknownst to me, at least two types of flowers as well as lettuce, rocket and assorted other leaves.

I could identify Nasturtium petals, bright orange. They were surprisingly tasty - slightly peppery.

But the disgrace! I am now someone who has flowers in their salad!

(This is very different than my former student party trick. Which involved eating flowers. Being a botanist and all. Maybe you had to be there. And be very drunk, too. That was an integral part of the experience.)

Comments

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Did you write this entire post just for the title?

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've been meaning to write about the transition from napkins to milk jug for a long while.

The flowers-in-the-salad was the crowning glory.

But once I realised they were Nasturtium... Maybe.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

BTW are we the only people on LJ nowadays?!

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

:-)

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Andy's always here.

[matgb]

There are a few others trying to keep the cobwebs from taking over, I still read regularly, but I rarely post, which is something I keep meaning to change but, well, it never quite happens...

[fiendish-cat.livejournal.com]

I'll comment just to prove you're not alone here. (Generally I love reading LJ, and blogs in general, but comment v little.)

My garden is awash with nasturtiums, I could have put them on the lunch we had in the garden if I'd remembered.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Next you'll be posting pictures of tea cosies.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Now that's an idea...!

[andrewducker]

Not _always_.

Sometimes I sleep :->

(Oh, and I can't get to my friends list from work. So I don't read things from most people until the evening.)

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I'm only here sporadically.

And often that's because of something you've cross-posted to Facebook! :)

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

It is interesting hide LJ has changed in the last few years.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

That makes one of us :-(

Can you not get f-list on phone?

[andrewducker]

Yes. But I have 586 friends. So I have ten different filters that I read things on, so I can keep track. And frankly having to read on one device and then switch to another to comment would drive me mad.

(My standard practice is to work through the different filters, opening up tabs for things I want to read in more detail/comment on, and then go through those tabs. Can't do that on my phone easily. Particularly as writing anything more than a sentence long on a phone is a pain in the bum.)

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. You're more patient than I am. I don't want to wait until the evening to see what people have said.

[andrewducker]

I have tracking on for posts from some people (like your good self), so I know about those instantly, and can go see from my desktop :->

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

So you can see individual posts but not your f-list? How odd.

[andrewducker]

Yup. It seems to have blocked the "friends" page as social content, but not individual blogs!

Blocking systems are weird.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

They really are. I don't think we have any at our work - at least, if we do then I haven't run into them - but RBS's were very peculiar.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I don't think this could have come as a surprise to anyone.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Laughing out loud at this.