Spooning Cheese
Categories: random
Date: 30 May 2007 17:32:01
Some good friends of mine have a bit of a thing about teaspoons (best not to ask ;) ). But at the weekend they developed a personal significance for myself and John.
He came to stay with me, in the guest house I'm currently living in (for placement). The landlady, who usually cooks a main meal for me everyday, was fine about him staying, except obviously, she wasn't going to cook for him too. We were both allowed to help ourselves to cereal for breakfast; we bought a selection of cheese, bread, chocolate and fruit for lunches, and then for dinner we either ate out or got a takeaway. On Saturday morning we were packing up for a day out in St Davids, and I suddenly realised that we didn't have anything to cut the cheese with, whilst we were out on the cliff top. We probably could have borrowed the landlady's kitchen utensils and made up the rolls, but I always think its more fun to improvise with the bread and cheese, as you're sat on the end of a cliff, surrounded by sea. Maybe thats just me. So we picked up the only thing in my room that we thought would cut cheese sensibly. The teaspoon provided with the kettle for tea and coffee.
It was fantastic. We'd walked away from the main path, out to the peninsular of that particular part of the coast. Sat a metre or so away from the edge, surrounded by flowers, beautiful sea and watching some intriguing birds on nearby rocks (although I didn't know what the birds or flowers were called...). And we got out the cheese and the teaspoon, and cut the cheese. It actually worked quite well. I recommend trying it. If you handle the spoon in the right way, you can actually cut straight(ish) slices. It didn't always work out like that, but cheese tastes the same whether its in slices or random half-ball shapes. And the best thing was, neither of us could stop laughing for ages! I think its going to be a running joke between us for a little while...
Identification of the flowers and birds shown below would be appreciated!
