World rankings, no 197: the moreishness of potato salad
4. Ordinary supermarket potato salad: not very.
3. Superior supermarket potato salad: also not very but tastes more expensive.
2. Homemade potato salad: very.
1. Homegrown, homemade potato salad: EAT YOURSELF INTO A COMA.
A butterfly for Bluesky! A little old ragged meadow brown that I liberated from the polytunnel. It rested on my hand for about three minutes before fluttering off.
The most powerful currencies currently available to me are:
- courgettes
- spare plastic carrier bags
- the offer to chair a difficult meeting of a troubled local society.
While his personality may be in question, he's a damned fine actor. I saw him in One Man, Two Guv'nors and it was the funniest live theatre I've ever seen.
I sympathise. It took me 16 years to work out that my husband thought I made tea too weak, and that he did actually like tea as long as it was strong enough to trot a mouse on it. He never said. 🙄 He always made mine too strong even though I told him... 39th anniversary in a fortnight...
Musique concrète was a 20th century movement using recordings of real sounds - ypu might find some of it of interest. Also the music of Varèse - Ionisation and Arcana for instance.
Arrggh I'm in a really crowded train and a ghastly entitled family of a mother and two teenage sons are taking up five seats. One son has a foot up on an empty seat and the other had a suitcase across 2 seats - now only 1 cos I made him move it. I'm sitting here furiously judging them.
