It's always the way isn't it? You go looking for something and they've completely run out. At the Asian supermarket today, they had lots of this:
But where was the unpleasant pickle? None available. Couldn't be had for love nor money. Typical. Just typical.
Was there any Tickled Pheasant?
ReplyDeleteNo - apparently there are plenty of pheasants availalbe, but you just can't get the staff any more, so no tickling.
ReplyDeleteNo -- it was there. You missed it -- right behind the curmudgeonly cucumber.
ReplyDeleteCan't add anything to this, except thanks for the laugh.
ReplyDeleteMuch is "pleasant" here in China, including a character in a children's cartoon, "Pleasant Goat." Such a fine quality for a superhero.
ReplyDeleteThat cucumber was more than curmudgeonly, Chris; it was so ferocious that it bit me and I had to leave the shop (after buying and eating on the spot some rather delicious mushrooms - could that explain my perception of the cucumber's behaviour, I wonder [none of that is actually true, should anyone be wondering].)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Whispering - it just seemed to me that 'pleasant' would be a given, when offering food to the public to buy.
I am a bit vague about your timetable, Polly, but it would be lovely to skype when you have a spare ten minutes - let me know when suits you (is David here or at his mother's bedside, by the way?)
I'll try to have a pleasant conversation with you tomorrow morning.
ReplyDeletewhat about pickled peasant?
ReplyDeletePeasants pretty thin on the ground - although a Yugoslav friend referred to the Farmers' Organic Market as the Peasant Market the other day
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