Counter Point

14th September 2012 Friday

Loved being in the kitchen most of today - cooking for our weekend visitors - on a vegan theme -  using lots of luscious vegetables. A perfect counter point to thinking about tribunals or how to be good and kind and patient.

Head down instead, knife on chopping board, slicing carrots and celery, or sifting cocoa powder into egg free cake mixture, or charring the skins of aubergines for Babaganoush or tossing red and yellow and orange tomatoes in garlic and olive oil or stirring dried cranberries into warm crunchy granola......being my own non celebrity masterchef.

Later I cut the grass and water the garden pots which are drying out in this Indian summer sunshine.The pussy cat sits on the mat by the open back door. He looks small and hunched up -  his fur thin over his bent legs. The vet says his tumour is growing bigger. I’m glad he does’t know that.