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Feb. 13th, 2017 06:17 pmThe time for cucumbers is upon us. I have cucumbers. I have so many cucumbers. So many. So very many. I am running out of people I know to give them to. They have been coming in manageable dribs and drabs over the last couple of weeks, but now they have hit their stride. I picked ten on Saturday and ten on Sunday and there are more to come. My mother is pickling some. She is going to give a jar of them to her friend who has the pickled turnip.
I also have some zucchini. Not as many as I have cucumbers, but a fair number and they are large. They are stealth growers. One day they are fingerlings and the next they are as big as my forearm. I made zucchini brownies yesterday, in a 24x30cm tray (about 9.5x12 inches), which is a fair old size. It's a lot of brownie. The recipe calls for 2 cups of grated zucchini. I thought, yes, that will use up some of my zucchini. Half of one, is what it used. I used the other half to make a zucchini slice, then I had zucchini slice (with cucumber on the side) for lunch, followed by a zucchini brownie.
I have been to see Hidden Figures. It is a solid, respectable film, and I enjoyed it. More than I enjoyed La La Land, which I didn't like as much as I expected to. The story was too flimsy to hold the weight of all the references. For what it's worth, I did like the ending, which many people don't seem to. I saw La La Land with my mother, who loathed it. I could tell from her posture. Outside the cinema, she said, "Halfway through I started thinking, just throw the ring in the fire," which I understood to be a reference to the grudge she still bears about going to see an early morning screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King straight after she finished a ten-hour night shift (her idea). Heaven help Elijah Wood if he ever meets my mother, because she has some stern words for him about all the time he wasted, and I quote, "farting about instead of climbing that mountain".
I also have some zucchini. Not as many as I have cucumbers, but a fair number and they are large. They are stealth growers. One day they are fingerlings and the next they are as big as my forearm. I made zucchini brownies yesterday, in a 24x30cm tray (about 9.5x12 inches), which is a fair old size. It's a lot of brownie. The recipe calls for 2 cups of grated zucchini. I thought, yes, that will use up some of my zucchini. Half of one, is what it used. I used the other half to make a zucchini slice, then I had zucchini slice (with cucumber on the side) for lunch, followed by a zucchini brownie.
I have been to see Hidden Figures. It is a solid, respectable film, and I enjoyed it. More than I enjoyed La La Land, which I didn't like as much as I expected to. The story was too flimsy to hold the weight of all the references. For what it's worth, I did like the ending, which many people don't seem to. I saw La La Land with my mother, who loathed it. I could tell from her posture. Outside the cinema, she said, "Halfway through I started thinking, just throw the ring in the fire," which I understood to be a reference to the grudge she still bears about going to see an early morning screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King straight after she finished a ten-hour night shift (her idea). Heaven help Elijah Wood if he ever meets my mother, because she has some stern words for him about all the time he wasted, and I quote, "farting about instead of climbing that mountain".