Put a Fork in it....

I spent the morning going through old food mags

and pulling out recipes

all of which I dutifully filed in a folder

never to be looked again

but it allows me the maintain the illusion that I am exceedingly domestic

and illusion is very underrated in the sanity saving stakes

so while virtuously tearing out pages

I came across this great photo

of a pile of old spoons and forks

it was one of those designer picnic spreads

of the type that I have never actually seen

in the real world

lots of artfully thrown down cutlery 

on squillion dollar napery

in a park with not an ant or fly in sight

to mess their fabulously styled hair...

and laid out  was beautifully casual food 

that takes hours and hours

and about three glasses of wine

to attempt to recreate

and which in my kitchen

leads to a meltdown of monumental proportions,

a throwing up of hands in defeat

and ultimately

finds me gently sobbing in a corner

cooing sweet takeway where art thou dear takeaway

so rather than put everyone through that again

I happily tore out the pic

gave it a draw 

and have put a fork in it

cause it is done baby...

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