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Date: 13 April 2005 20:54:18
I am, I have to admit, an antivegetarian. In fact, many of my friends are vegetarians and we have found it quite convenient to exchange our food half and half when eating out - I get twice the meat and they get twice the green stuff. I am one of the people who are definitely "supertasters" and can taste the bitterness in green vegetables so strongly that I cannot bear to have them in my mouth - indeed, quite often the smell alone can make me nauseous. But today I was a good girl - I ate my peas! Well, I couldn't for shame not, seeing as Smudgelet ate his... and they were all jumbled up in a delicious but strong tasting fish pasta which quite nicely masked the taste. But don't go expecting me to greet a brussels sprout with an expression of delight!
Two thirds of my "to do" list is now complete. One item on my list, now completed, was to make crystals with the Smudgelets. Well, not with them precisely. With salt solutions and soda solutions and a piece of string. But with the able assistance of the Smudgelets. Tiddles was none-too-impressed when he arrived home from the shop, whither he had been sent for supplies, to discover that baking SODA is NOT the same thing as baking POWDER and he was dispatched back to exchange it. Smudgelet's enthusiastic stirring was responsible for my lounge table now resembling a brine baths, while my mantlepiece is a veritable laboratory bench right now, with pieces of string dangling over soda solutions, pipe cleaners stood awaiting the development of crystal "snowflakes" on their surface and, most exciting of all, three pennies in salt/vinegar solution waiting to be covered in blue crystals when the vinegar evaporates. Will we remember to keep pouring the solution over the stalactite-forming piece of string, though? I can remember even now the bitter disappointment when I tried this experiment myself as a child and was rewarded with a soggy piece of string and no crystal. I think it's a con, myself.